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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

The High-resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C) has provided Fe XII 193A images of the upper transition region moss at an unprecedented spatial (~0.3-0.4 arcsec) and temporal (5.5s) resolution. The Hi-C observations show in some moss regions…

Magnetic reconnection occurs when new flux emerges into the corona and becomes incorporated into the existing coronal field. A new active region (AR) emerging in the vicinity of an existing AR provides a convenient laboratory in which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Marika I. McCarthy , Dana W. Longcope , Anna Malanushenko , David E. McKenzie

The Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) on board Hinode is the first solar telescope to obtain wide slit spectral images that can be used for detecting Doppler flows in transition region and coronal lines on the Sun and to relate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. E. Innes , R. Attie , H. Hara , M. S. Madjarska

We investigate the atmospheric response to a small emerging flux region (EFR) that occurred in the positive polarity of Active Region 11236 on 23 \,-\ 24 June 2011. Data from the \textit{Solar Dynamics Observatory's Atmopheric Imaging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 D. L. Shelton , L. K. Harra , L. M. Green

The solar coronal heating in quiet Sun (QS) and coronal holes (CH), including solar wind formation, are intimately tied by magnetic field dynamics. Thus, a detailed comparative study of these regions is needed to understand the underlying…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 Vishal Upendran , Durgesh Tripathi

In this paper a new technique for modeling non-linear force-free fields directly from line of sight magnetogram observations is presented. The technique uses sequences of magnetograms directly as lower boundary conditions to drive the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-28 Duncan H. Mackay , L. M. Green , Aad van Ballegooijen

Dynamic fibrils (DFs) are commonly observed chromospheric features in solar active regions. Recent observations from the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) aboard the Solar Orbiter have revealed unambiguous signatures of DFs at the coronal…

We present the results of multi wavelength, co-spatial and near co-temporal observations of jets above a sunspot light bridge. The data were obtained with the Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) on board Hinode, the Interface Region Spectrograph…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-12 Lokesh Bharti

We explore the general properties of near-surface flows around solar active regions. Helioseismic holography is applied to HMI Dopplergrams yielding nearly 5000 flow measurements of 336 unique active regions observed by the Solar Dynamics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 D. C. Braun

The temporal variation of the horizontal velocity in subsurface layers beneath three different types of active regions is studied using the technique of ring diagrams. In this study, we select active regions (ARs) 10923, 10930, 10935 from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 K. Jain , R. W. Komm , I González Hernández , S. C. Tripathy , F. Hill

The small-scale moving intensity enhancements remotely observed in the extreme ultraviolet images of the solar active regions, which we refer to as active region moving campfires (ARMCs), are related to local plasma temperature and/or…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 B. M. Shergelashvili , E. Philishvili , S. Buitendag , S. Poedts , M. Khodachenko

Plasma flow measurements in solar active region filaments are rare, particularly in the infrared and ultraviolet ranges that probe the chromosphere and transition region. In addition, previous studies generally focused on prominences and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-04 M. Murabito , V. Andretta , S. Parenti , C. Kuckein , S. J. Gonzàlez Manrique , S. M. Lezzi , S. L. Guglielmino

Data from recent numerical simulations of the solar corona and transition region are analysed and the magnetic field connection between the low corona and the photosphere is found to be close to that of a potential field. The fieldline to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 B. V. Gudiksen , Å. Nordlund

We present the first Hinode/EIS observations of 5 min quasi-periodic oscillations detected in a transition-region line (He II) and five coronal lines (Fe X, Fe XII, Fe XIII, Fe XIV, and Fe XV) at the footpoint of a coronal loop. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 T. J. Wang , L. Ofman , J. M. Davila

Multiwavelength observations of the propagating disturbances (PDs), discovered by Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), are analyzed to determine its driving mechanism and physical nature. Two magnetic…

Spicules have been proposed as significant contributors to the mass and energy balance of the corona. While previous observations have provided a glimpse of short-lived transient brightenings in the corona that are associated with spicules,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-19 Bart De Pontieu , Ineke De Moortel , Juan Martinez-Sykora , Scott McIntosh

By using a new method of forced-field extrapolation, we study the emerging flux region AR 11850 observed by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) and Solar Dynamical Observatory (SDO). Our results suggest that the bright points…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Jie Zhao , Brigitte Schmieder , Hui Li , Etienne Pariat , Xiaoshuai Zhu , Li Feng , Michalina Grubecka

Aims. Combining high-resolution and synoptic observations aims to provide a comprehensive description of flux emergence at photospheric level and of the growth process that eventually leads to a mature active region. Methods. Small active…

Waves have long been thought to contribute to the heating of the solar corona and the generation of the solar wind. Recent observations have demonstrated evidence of quasi-periodic longitudinal disturbances and ubiquitous transverse wave…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 J. Threlfall , I. De Moortel , S. W. McIntosh , C. Bethge