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Small (400 to 4000 km) and short lived (10 to 200 km) extreme ultraviolet (EUV) brightenings, detected by the High Resolution Imager EUV (HRIEUV), have been found to be ubiquitous in the Quiet Sun (QS). Their contribution to coronal heating…

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Due to the choice of very dense star fields for a higher event rate, the current microlensing searches suffer from large uncertainties caused by blending effect. To measure light variations of microlensing events free from the effect of…

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Aims: This paper aims to demonstrate the importance of short-exposure extreme ultraviolet (EUV) observations of solar flares in the study of particle acceleration, heating and energy partition in flares. This work highlights the…

Numerous studies have analysed inferred power-law distributions between frequency and energy of impulsive events in the outer solar atmosphere in an attempt to understand the predominant energy supply mechanism in the corona. Here, we apply…

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We present a novel method for measuring the rate of periodic phenomena (e.g., rotation, flicker, and vibration), by an event camera, a device asynchronously reporting brightness changes at independently operating pixels with high temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Jakub Kolář , Radim Špetlík , Jiří Matas

The content of hot material in the corona is not constant. Soft X-ray and high-temperature EUV line observations show that new material, apparently heated and evaporated from the chromosphere, is frequently injected into the corona both in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Arnold O. Benz , Paolo C. Grigis

Using ALMA observations, we performed the first systematic survey for transient brightenings (i.e. weak, small-scale episodes of energy release) in the quiet solar chromosphere at 3 mm. Our dataset included images of six 87'' x 87'' regions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 A. Nindos , C. E. Alissandrakis , S. Patsourakos , T. S. Bastian

Solar Orbiter EUV observations reveal ubiquitous small-scale brightenings in the quiet-Sun low corona. We analyze the spatial and temporal dissipation scales of these events with a focus on the formation, evolution, and dissipation of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-23 Olena Podladchikova

We present a study of the frequency of transient brightenings in the core of solar active regions as observed in the Fe XVIII line component of AIA/SDO 94 A filter images. The Fe XVIII emission is isolated using an empirical correction to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Ignacio Ugarte-Urra , Harry P. Warren

Event cameras or dynamic vision sensors (DVS) record asynchronous response to brightness changes instead of conventional intensity frames, and feature ultra-high sensitivity at low bandwidth. The new mechanism demonstrates great advantages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Bo Zhang , Yuqi Han , Jinli Suo , Qionghai Dai

Transition-region explosive events (EEs) are characterized by non-Gaussian line profiles with enhanced wings at Doppler velocities of 50-150 km/s. They are believed to be the signature of solar phenomena that are one of the main…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Z. Huang , M. S. Madjarska , E. M. Scullion , L. -D. Xia , J. G. Doyle , T. Ray

This study investigates the relationship between extreme ultraviolet (EUV) transient brightenings (TBs) and the onset of GOES X-class solar flares in active regions (ARs). We introduce the Brightenings AnD Polarity Inversion Tracking…

The aim of this work is to identify the true nature of the transient EUV brightenings, called blinkers. Co-spatial and co-temporal multi-instrument data, including imaging (EUVI/STEREO, XRT and SOT/Hinode), spectroscopic (CDS/SoHO and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 S. Subramanian , M. S. Madjarska , J. G. Doyle , D. Bewsher

Nanoflares are regarded as one of the major mechanisms of magnetic energy release and coronal heating in the solar outer atmosphere. We conduct a statistical study on the response of the chromosphere and transition region to nanoflares, as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Kyuhyoun Cho , Paola Testa , Bart De Pontieu , Vanessa Polito

Magnetic Bright Points (MBPs) in the internetwork are among the smallest objects in the solar photosphere and appear bright against the ambient environment. An algorithm is presented that can be used for the automated detection of the MBPs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 P. J. Crockett , D. B. Jess , M. Mathioudakis , F. P. Keenan

Various bright structures abound in the chromosphere playing an essential role in the dynamics and evolution therein. Tentatively identifying the wave characteristics in the outer solar atmosphere helps to understand this layer better. One…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Rayhane Sadeghi , Ehsan Tavabi

Strong EUV lineshifts in solar spectra are generally indicative of highly dynamic and explosive events that are easily detected in comparable-wavelength EUV images, with the strongest such line shifts (several 100 km/s) occurring in solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-04 Alphonse C. Sterling , Louise K. Harra , Navdeep K. Panesar , Ronald L. Moore

The luminosity function of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), defined as the event rate per unit cosmic co-moving volume per unit luminosity, may help to reveal the possible origins of FRBs and design the optimal searching strategy. With the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-22 Rui Luo , Yunpeng Men , Kejia Lee , Weiyang Wang , D. R. Lorimer , Bing Zhang

Coronal bright points (BPs) are small-scale luminous features seen in the solar corona. Quasi-periodic brightenings are frequently observed in the BPs and are generally linked with underneath magnetic flux changes. We study the dynamics of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-05 Tanmoy Samanta , Dipankar Banerjee , Hui Tian