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The Atacama Large Millimeter-submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope has commenced science observations of the Sun starting in late 2016. Since the Sun is much larger than the field of view of individual ALMA dishes, the ALMA…

The very nature of the solar chromosphere, its structuring and dynamics, remains far from being properly understood, in spite of intensive research. Here we point out the potential of chromospheric observations at millimeter wavelengths to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 M. A. Loukitcheva , S. K. Solanki , S. White

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is a new powerful tool for observing the Sun at high spatial, temporal, and spectral resolution. These capabilities can address a broad range of fundamental scientific questions in…

By direct measurements of the gas temperature, the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) has yielded a new diagnostic tool to study the solar chromosphere. Here we present an overview of the brightness-temperature…

Images of the Sun at millimeter wavelengths obtained by ALMA show a significant correspondence with the magnetograms. In this paper, we investigate this correspondence by comparing ALMA full-disk solar image taken at 1.2 mm with a SDO/HMI…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-23 I. Skokić , D. Sudar , R. Brajša

The Ca II H & K lines are strong chromospheric diagnostics that can be used to determine the temperature stratification and magnetic structure of the solar atmosphere. The Atacama Large Millimetre/Submillimetre Array (ALMA) offers…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-09 Sneha Pandit , Sven Wedemeyer , Mats Carlsson

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) allows for solar observations in the wavelength range of 0.3$-$10 mm, giving us a new view of the chromosphere. The measured brightness temperature at various frequencies can be fitted…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-01 F. Matković , R. Brajša , M. Kuhar , A. O. Benz , H. -G. Ludwig , C. L. Selhorst , I. Skokić , D. Sudar , A. Hanslmeier

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array offers an unprecedented view of our Sun at sub-/millimeter wavelengths. The high spatial, temporal, and spectral resolution facilitates the measurement of gas temperatures and magnetic fields…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-18 Sven Wedemeyer , Asbjorn Parmer

We present an initial study of one of the first ALMA Band 3 observations of the Sun with the aim to characterise the diagnostic potential of brightness temperatures measured with ALMA on the Sun. The observation covers 48min at a cadence of…

Sub-millimeter observations reveal the star-formation activity obscured by dust in the young Universe. It still remains unclear how galaxies detected at sub-millimeter wavelengths are related to ultraviolet/optical-selected galaxies in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-07 Tomoko L. Suzuki , Sophie E. van Mierlo , Karina I. Caputi

We have implemented control and data-taking software that makes it possible to scan the beams of individual ALMA antennas to perform quite complex patterns while recording the signals at high rates. We conducted test observations of the Sun…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-24 Neil Phillips , Richard Hills , Tim Bastian , Hugh Hudson , Ralph Marson , Sven Wedemeyer

The precise mechanisms that provide the non-radiative energy for heating the chromosphere and the corona of the Sun and those of other stars constitute an active field of research. By studying stellar chromospheres one aims at identifying…

In this work we use solar observations with the ALMA radio telescope at the wavelength of 1.21 mm. The aim of the analysis is to improve understanding of the solar chromosphere, a dynamic layer in the solar atmosphere between the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 R. Brajša , D. Sudar , I. Skokic , A. O. Benz , M. Kuhar , A. Kobelski , S. Wedemeyer , S. M. White , H. -G. Ludwig , M. Temmer , S. H. Saar , C. L. Selhorst

We present observations of the solar chromosphere obtained simultaneously with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). The observatories targeted a chromospheric plage…

We report optical-infrared (IR) properties of faint 1.3 mm sources (S_1.3mm = 0.2-1.0 mJy) detected with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in the Subaru/XMM-Newton Deep Survey (SXDS) field. We searched for optical/IR…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-16 Bunyo Hatsukade , Kouji Ohta , Kiyoto Yabe , Akifumi Seko , Ryu Makiya , Masayuki Akiyama

We present the first high-resolution, simultaneous observations of the solar chromosphere in the optical and millimeter wavelength ranges, obtained with ALMA and the IBIS instrument at the Dunn Solar Telescope. In this paper we concentrate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-27 Momchil E. Molnar , Kevin P. Reardon , Yi Chai , Dale Gary , Han Uitenbroek , Gianna Cauzzi , Steven R. Cranmer

The aim of this study is to demonstrate how the logarithmic millimeter continuum gradient observed using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) may be used to estimate optical thickness in the solar atmosphere. We discuss…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-01 Andrew S. Rodger , Nicolas Labrosse , Sven Wedemeyer , Mikolaj Szydlarski , Paulo J. A. Simões , Lyndsay Fletcher

We present joint observations of the Sun by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). The observations were made of a solar active region on 2015 December 18 as part of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 T. S. Bastian , G. Chintzoglou , B. De Pontieu , M. Shimojo , D. Schmit , J. Leenaarts , M. Loukitcheva

We aim to investigate the temperature enhancements and formation heights of impulsive heating phenomena in solar active-regions such as Ellerman bombs (EBs), ultraviolet bursts (UVBs), and flaring active-region fibrils (FAFs) using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-04 J. M. da Silva Santos , J. de la Cruz Rodríguez , S. M. White , J. Leenaarts , G. J. M. Vissers , V. H. Hansteen

The strongest known correspondence between ALMA 3mm emission and other solar observations is between the H-alpha line width and 3 mm brightness temperature, while the typical 3-5min p-mode oscillations found in many chromospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-10 Lucas A. Tarr , Adam R. Kobelski , Sarah A. Jaeggli , Momchil Molnar , Gianna Cauzzi , Kevin P. Reardon