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Light bridges (LBs) are elongated structures with enhanced intensity embedded in sunspot umbra and pores. We studied the properties of a sample of 60 LBs observed with the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). Using IRIS near- and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 Reza Rezaei

The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission provides high-resolution observations of the chromosphere and transition region. We try to determine whether the light walls exist somewhere else in active regions besides light…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 Y. J. Hou , T. Li , S. H. Yang , J. Zhang

Light bridges, the bright structures that divide the umbra of sunspots and pores into smaller pieces, are known to produce wide variety of activity events in solar active regions (ARs). It is also known that the light bridges appear in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Shin Toriumi , Yukio Katsukawa , Mark C. M. Cheung

Light bridges (LBs) are bright lanes that divide an umbra into multiple parts in some sunspots. Persistent oscillatory bright fronts at a temperature of $\sim$$10^5$ K are commonly observed above LBs in the 1400/1330 \AA~passbands of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Fuyu Li , Yajie Chen , Yijun Hou , Hui Tian , Xianyong Bai , Yongliang Song

The formation mechanism of light bridges (LBs) is strongly related to the dynamic evolution of solar active regions (ARs). To study the relationship between LB formation and AR evolution phases, we employ 109 LB samples from 69 ARs in 2014…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-22 Fuyu Li , Changhui Rao , Xinhua Zhao , Yang Guo , Xiaoying Gong , Yuhao Chen , Nanbin Xiang , Huaning Wang

Sunspot light bridges (LBs) exhibit a wide range of short-lived phenomena in the chromosphere and transition region. In contrast, we use here data from the Multi-Application Solar Telescope (MAST), the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Rohan E. Louis , Shibu K. Mathew , A. Raja Bayanna , Christian Beck , Debi P. Choudhary

Light bridge (LB) jets offer a unique window into small-scale eruptive phenomena within sunspots, the Sun's strongest magnetic environments; however, their generation mechanism remains a subject of debate. Using high-resolution observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-27 Yadan Duan , Xiaoli Yan , Yuhang Gao , Jincheng Wang , Zhe Xu , Yongyuan Xiang

Observations with the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) have revealed numerous sub-arcsecond bright dots in the transition region above sunspots. These bright dots are seen in the 1400\AA{} and 1330\AA{} slit-jaw images. They are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-21 H. Tian , L. Kleint , H. Peter , M. Weber , P. Testa , E. DeLuca , L. Golub , N. Schanche

We use a combination of full-disk data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory and high-resolution data from the Dunn Solar Telescope (DST) to study the formation, structure, and evolution of an atypical light bridge (LB) in a regular sunspot.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Rohan E. Louis , Christian Beck , Debi P. Choudhary

We present unprecedented high-resolution TiO images and Fe I 1565 nm spectropolarimetric data of two light bridges taken by the 1.6-m Goode Solar Telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory. In the first light bridge (LB1), we find striking…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-10 Jingwen Zhang , Hui Tian , Sami K. Solanki , Haimin Wang , Hardi Peter , Kwangsu Ahn , Yan Xu , Yingjie Zhu , Wenda Cao , Jiansen He , Linghua Wang

Light bridges, the bright structure dividing umbrae in sunspot regions, show various activity events. In Paper I, we reported on analysis of multi-wavelength observations of a light bridge in a developing active region (AR) and concluded…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Shin Toriumi , Mark C. M. Cheung , Yukio Katsukawa

The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) of the NASA small explorer mission provides significantly more complete and higher resolution spectral coverage of the dynamical conditions inside the chromosphere and transition region (TR)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 E. Tavabi , S. Koutchmy , L. Golub

Light bridges (LBs) are relatively bright structures that divide sunspot umbrae into two or more parts. Chromospheric LBs are known to be associated with various activities including fan-shaped jet-like ejections and brightenings. Although…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Eun-Kyung Lim , Heesu Yang , Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Jongchul Chae , Donguk Song , Maria S. Madjarska

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

Dynamical jets are generally found on Light bridges (LBs), which are key to studying sunspots decays. So far, their formation mechanism is not fully understood. In this paper, we used state-of-the-art observations from the Goode Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 Xianyong Bai , Hector Socas-Navarro , Daniel Nóbrega-Siverio , Jiangtao Su , Yuanyong Deng , Dong Li , Wenda Cao , Kaifan Ji

Various small-scale structures abound in the solar atmosphere above active regions, playing an important role in the dynamics and evolution therein. We report on a new class of small-scale transition region structures in active regions,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 Zhenyong Hou , Zhenghua Huang , Lidong Xia , Bo Li , Maria S. Madjarska , Hui Fu , Chaozhou Mou , Haixia Xie

Solar Optical Telescope onboard Hinode observed a sunspot (AR 11836) with two light bridges (LBs) on 31 Aug 2013. We analysed a 2-hour \ion{Ca}{2} H emission intensity data set and detected strong 5-min oscillation power on both LBs and in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Ding Yuan , Valery M. Nakariakov , Zhenghua Huang , Bo Li , Jiangtao Su , Yihua Yan , Baolin Tan

Light bridge (LB) is bright structure crossing the umbra of sunspots and associated to the breakup or assembly of sunspots. In this paper, a LB is presented and studied using the observatory data obtained by {\it Hinode} satellites.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-07 S. Liu , D. Liu

We present the results obtained by analyzing high spatial and spectral resolution data of the solar photosphere acquired by the CRisp Imaging SpectroPolarimeter at the Swedish Solar Telescope on 6 August 2011, relevant to a large sunspot…

Sunspot light bridges are known to exhibit a variety of dynamic and persistent phenomena such as surges, small-scale jets etc. in the chromosphere and transition region. While it has generally been proposed that magnetic reconnection is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-27 Rohan E. Louis , Julia K. Thalmann
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