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Solar pores are strongly magnetized regions lacking a photospheric penumbra and characterized by predominantly vertical magnetic fields. We present a multi-line study of flashes in a solar pore using high-resolution observations from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 Sandeep Dubey , Christian Beck , Rahul Yadav , Tobias Felipe , Shibu K Mathew

A new generation of solar instruments provides improved spectral, spatial, and temporal resolution, thus facilitating a better understanding of dynamic processes on the Sun. High-resolution observations often reveal multiple-component…

Radial velocity (RV) monitoring of solar-type visual binaries has been conducted at the CTIO/SMARTS 1.5-m telescope to study short-period systems. Data reduction is described, mean and individual RVs of 163 observed objects are given. New…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-05 Andrei Tokovinin

Paper I presents the magnetic structure of a filament that developed in active region (AR) NOAA 10781. In this paper we complement those results with the velocities retrieved from Doppler shifts measured at the chromosphere and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-14 C. Kuckein , V. Martinez Pillet , R. Centeno

Spicules have been observed on the sun for more than a century, typically in chromospheric lines such as H-alpha and Ca II H. Recent work has shown that so-called 'type II' spicules may have a role in providing mass to the corona and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Tiago M. D. Pereira , Bart De Pontieu , Mats Carlsson

Chromospheric rapid blueshifted excursions (RBEs) are suggested to be the disk counterparts of type II spicules at the limb and believed to contribute to the coronal heating process. Previous identification of RBEs was mainly based on…

Recent studies suggest that the magnetic switchbacks (SBs) detected by the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) carry information on the scales of solar supergranulation (large scale) and granulation (medium scale). We test this claim using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-18 Jeongwoo Lee , Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Haimin Wang , Xu Yang , Wenda Cao , Juan Carlos Martinez Oliveros

Solar radio spikes are short duration and narrow bandwidth fine structures in dynamic spectra observed from GHz to tens of MHz range. Their very short duration and narrow frequency bandwidth are indicative of sub-second small-scale energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-31 Daniel L. Clarkson , Eduard P. Kontar , Mykola Gordovskyy , Nicolina Chrysaphi , Nicole Vilmer

Minimal observational evidence exists for fast transition region (TR) upflows in the presence of cool loops. Observations of such occurrences challenge notions of standard solar atmospheric heating models, as well as their description of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 N. B. Orange , D. L. Chesny , H. M. Oluseyi , K. Hesterly , M. Patel , P. R. Champey

Solar flare ribbons are features in the lower atmosphere that show enhanced emission intensity, particularly noticeable in H$\alpha$ and EUV images of the transition region and upper chromosphere. In this study, we provide observational…

Plasma upflows with a Doppler shift exceeding -10 km/s at active region (AR) boundaries are considered potential sources of the nascent slow solar wind. We investigate the driving mechanisms of a pair of coronal upflow regions on the…

A number of recent investigations have revealed that transverse waves are ubiquitous in the solar chromosphere. The vast majority of these have been reported in limb spicules and active region fibrils. We investigate long-lived, quiet Sun,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 D. Kuridze , R. J. Morton , R. Erdélyi , G. D. Dorrian , M. Mathioudakis , D. B. Jess , F. P. Keenan

Coronal upflows at the edges of active regions (AR), which are a possible source of slow solar wind, have been found to connect with dynamics in the transition region. To infer at what scale transition region dynamics connect to AR upflows,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Zhenghua Huang , Lidong Xia , Hui Fu , Zhenyong Hou , Ziyuan Wang

Alfv\'enic waves are thought to play an important role in coronal heating and acceleration of solar wind. Here we investigated the statistical properties of Alfv\'enic waves along spicules (jets that protrude into the corona) in a polar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Takenori J. Okamoto , Bart De Pontieu

We examine Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) Goode Solar Telescope (GST) high-spatial resolution (0''.06), high-cadence (3.45 s), H-alpha-0.8 Angstrom images of central-disk solar spicules, using data of Samanta et al. (2019). We compare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Alphonse C. Sterling , Ronald L. Moore , Tanmoy Samanta , Vasyl Yurchyshyn

Numerical simulations of the solar chromosphere have progressed towards reproducing spicules, which are transient features observed at the solar limb using spectral lines such as H$\alpha$, Ca II H&K, or Mg II h&k. Two types of spicules,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Sanghita Chandra , Robert Cameron , Damien Przybylski , Sami K. Solanki

We searched for and detected stellar streams or moving groups in the solar neighbourhood, using the data provided by the 1st RAVE public data release. This analysis is based on distances to RAVE stars estimated from a color-magnitude…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-24 Rainer Klement , Burkhard Fuchs , Hans-Walter Rix

Active regions are thought to be one contributor to the slow solar wind. Upflows in EUV coronal spectral lines are routinely osberved at their boundaries, and provide the most direct way for upflowing material to escape into the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 David H. Brooks , Louise Harra , Stuart D. Bale , Krzysztof Barczynski , Cristina Mandrini , Vanessa Polito , Harry P. Warren

Despite their somewhat-frequent appearance in EUV imaging of off-limb flares, the origins of Supra-Arcade Downflows (SADs) remain a mystery. Appearing as dark, tendril-like downflows above growing flare loop arcades, SADs themselves are yet…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-29 Ryan J. French , Maria D. Kazachenko , Teodora Mihailescu , Katharine K. Reeves

We investigate a small-scale ($\approx$ 1.5 Mm along the slit), supersonic downflow of about 90 km s$^{-1}$ in the transition region above the light-bridged sunspot umbra in AR 11836. The observations were obtained with the Interface Region…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-21 Thomas Straus , Bernhard Fleck , Vincenzo Andretta