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The Heliospheric Imagers (HI) on board the two spacecraft of the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) provided white-light images of transients in the solar wind from dual perspectives from 2007 to 2014. In this paper, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 Xiaolei Li , Yuming Wang , Rui Liu , Chenglong Shen , Quanhao Zhang , Bin Zhuang , Jiajia Liu , Yutian Chi

Coronal bright points are typical small-scale coronal brightenings that consist of a bundle of miniature coronal loops. Using the ultra-high-resolution coronal images from the Extreme Ultraviolet Image onboard Solar Obiter, we report the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-21 Junchao Hong , Jiayan Yang , Yi Bi , Bo Yang

On 2016 September 20, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph observed an active region during its earliest emerging phase for almost 7 hours. The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory observed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Hui Tian , Xiaoshuai Zhu , Hardi Peter , Jie Zhao , Tanmoy Samanta , Yajie Chen

Sequential chromospheric brightenings (SCBs) are often observed in the immediate vicinity of erupting flares and are associated with coronal mass ejections. Since their initial discovery in 2005, there have been several subsequent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 Michael S. Kirk , K. S. Balasubramaniam , Jason Jackiewicz , Holly R. Gilbert

In the last 15 years, 6 dedicated observation programs were carried out to monitor ~20 deg around the galactic center for transient activity above a few keV. Transient activity from low-mass X-ray binaries shows a strong preference for this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jean in 't Zand

We have created 0.3--10 keV, 13 year, unabsorbed luminosity lightcurves for 528 X-ray sources in the central 20' of M31. We have 174 Chandra observations spaced at ~1 month intervals thanks to our transient monitoring program, deeper…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 R. Barnard , M. R. Garcia , F. Primini , Z. Li , F. Baganoff , S. S. Murray

Large and magnetically complex sunspot groups are known to be associated with flares. To date, the Mount Wilson scheme has been used to classify sunspot groups based on their morphological and magnetic properties. The most flare prolific…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Sreejith Padinhatteeri , Paul A. Higgins , D. Shaun Bloomfield , Peter T. Gallagher

The quiescent or dynamic nature of fine scale ray-like features in the sun corona, observed in visible light, is still an open question. Here, we show that most of daily and hourly periodic variations in visible light brightness of the high…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Nathalia Alzate , Simone Di Matteo

We have been monitoring M31 with HRC and ACIS onboard \chandra regularly in the past two years. By combining eight \chandra ACIS-I observations taken between 1999 to 2001, we have identified 204 X-ray sources within the central $\sim…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. K. H. Kong , M. R. Garcia , F. A. Primini , R. Di Stefano , S. S. Murray

During five years of Chandra observations, we have identified seven X-ray transients located within 23 pc of Sgr A*. These sources each vary in luminosity by more than a factor of 10, and have peak X-ray luminosities greater than 5e33…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. P. Muno , E. Pfahl , F. K. Baganoff , W. N. Brandt , A. Ghez , J. Lu , M. R. Morris

Recent works have discovered two fast ($\approx 10$ ks) extragalactic X-ray transients in the Chandra Deep Field-South (CDF-S XT1 and XT2). These findings suggest that a large population of similar extragalactic transients might exist in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-19 Guang Yang , W. N. Brandt , S. F. Zhu , F. E. Bauer , B. Luo , Y. Q. Xue , X. C. Zheng

X-ray transients (XTs) driven by newborn magnetars from mergers of neutron star binaries (NSBs) were occasionally detected in the narrow-field {\it Chandra} Deep Field-South survey (CDF-S) and the {\it Swift}/XRT observations of short…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-06 Le Zou , Ji-Gui Cheng , Rui-Chong Hu , Wen-Jin Xie , En-Wei Liang

The sub-arcsec bright points (BP) associated with the small scale magnetic fields in the lower solar atmosphere are advected by the evolution of the photospheric granules. We measure various quantities related to the horizontal motions of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-28 LP. Chitta , A. A. van Ballegooijen , L. Rouppe van der Voort , E. E. DeLuca , R. Kariyappa

Several coronal bright points identified in a quiet region of the Sun from SOHO/EIT Fe XII images are found to have a time evolution from birth to decay which is extremely well correlated with the rise and fall of magnetic flux as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Paweł Preś , Kenneth J. H. Phillips

We analyse an absorption event within the H$\alpha$ line wings, identified as a surge, and the co-spatial evolution of an EUV brightening, with spatial and temporal scales analogous to a small blinker. We conduct a multi-wavelength,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 C. J. Nelson , J. G. Doyle

Microflares are small dynamic signatures observed in X-ray and extreme-ultraviolet channels. Because of their impulsive emission enhancements and wide distribution, they are thought to be closely related to coronal heating. By using the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-01 Fayu Jiang , Jun Zhang , Shuhong Yang

In this paper we report on the spectral analysis of seven X-ray transients, which were found to be active during a monitoring campaign of the Galactic center carried out in 2006 and 2007 using the X-ray telescope aboard the Swift satellite.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. Degenaar , R. Wijnands

Context. The corona of the Sun is the part of the solar atmosphere with temperatures of over one million Kelvin, which needs to be heated internally in order to exist. This heating mechanism remains a mystery; we see large magnetically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-03 I. Kraus , Ph. -A. Bourdin , J. Zender , M. Bergmann , A. Hanslmeier

In this work we explore the applicability of unsupervised machine learning algorithms to finding radio transients. Facilities such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will provide huge volumes of data in which to detect rare transients; the…

We present a visual determination of the number of bright points (BPs) existing in the quiet Sun, which are structures though to trace intense kG magnetic concentrations. The measurement is based on a 0.1 arcsec angular resolution G-band…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-16 J. Sanchez Almeida , J. A. Bonet , B. Viticchie , D. Del Moro