English
Related papers

Related papers: Various Activities above Sunspot Light Bridges in …

200 papers

High-resolution observations of the solar chromosphere and transition region often reveal surge-like oscillatory activities above sunspot light bridges. These oscillations are often interpreted as intermittent plasma jets produced by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-29 Jingwen Zhang , Hui Tian , Jiansen He , Linghua Wang

Recent observations of sunspot light-bridges have shed new light on the fact that they are often associated with significant chromospheric activity. In particular chromospheric jets (Shimizu et al. 2009) persisting over a period of days…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-23 S. Matthews , D. Baker , S. Vargas Domínguez

Pores are one of the various features forming in the photosphere by the emergence of magnetic field onto the solar surface. They lie at the border between tiny magnetic elements and larger sunspots. Light bridges, in such structures, are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Giordano , F. Berrilli , D. Del Moro , V. Penza

One important feature of sunspots is the presence of light bridges. These structures are elongated and bright (as compared to the umbra) features that seem to be related to the formation and evolution of sunspots. In this work, we studied…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Ana Belén Griñón-Marín , Adur Pastor Yabar , Rebecca Centeno , Héctor Socas-Navarro

A sunspot acts as a waveguide in response to the dynamics of the solar interior; the trapped waves and oscillations could reveal its thermal and magnetic structures. We study the oscillations in a sunspot intruded by a light bridge, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Ding Yuan , Robert W. Walsh

The various mechanisms of magneto-convective energy transport determines the structure of sunspots and active regions. We characterise the appearance of light bridges and other fine-structure details and elaborate on their…

We investigated three fan-shaped jets observed above sunspot light bridges or nearby sunspot regions. The study aimed to explore the dynamics and physical properties of jets' features that appear as blob-like structures at the tips of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-24 Heesu Yang , Maria S. Madjarska , EunKyung Lim , Daniel Nóbrega-Siverio , Klaus Galsgaard

Recent solar observations of bipolar light bridges (BLBs) in sunspots have, in a few individual cases, revealed magnetic fields up to 8.2 kG, which is at least twice as strong as typical values measured in sunspot umbrae. However, the small…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-06 J. S. Castellanos Durán , A. Korpi-Lagg , S. K. Solanki , M. van Noort , N. Milanovic

Bipolar Light Bridges (BLBs) are bright regions located between sunspot umbrae of opposite magnetic polarity. They are typically characterized by strong magnetic fields and intense flows, which are believed to be closely associated with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-10 Fangfang Qiao , Hao Li , Jiasheng Wang , Yadan Duan , Zheng Sun , Leping Li

A light bridge is a prominent structure commonly observed within a sunspot. Its presence usually triggers a wealth of dynamics in a sunspot, and has a lasting impact on sunspot evolution. However, the fundamental structure of light bridges…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Song Feng , Yuhu Miao , Ding Yuan , Zhongquan Qu , Valery M. Nakariakov

It is well-known that light bridges inside a sunspot produce small-scale plasma ejections and transient brightenings in the chromosphere, but the nature and origin of such phenomena are still unclear. Utilizing the high-spatial and high…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 Donguk Song , Jongchul Chae , Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Eun-Kyung Lim , Kyung-Suk Cho , Heesu Yang , Kyuhyoun Cho , Hannah Kwak

Solid evidence of magnetic reconnection is rarely reported within sunspots, the darkest regions with the strongest magnetic fields and lowest temperatures in the solar atmosphere. Using the world's largest solar telescope, the 1.6-meter…

We analyzed spectral and imaging data from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), images from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), and magnetograms from the Helioseismic and Magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-12 C. E. Alissandrakis , A. Koukras , S. Patsourakos , A. Nindos

Light bridges are the most prominent manifestation of convection in sunspots. The brightest representatives are granular light bridges composed of features that appear to be similar to granules. An in-depth study of the convective motions,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-05 Andreas Lagg , Sami K. Solanki , Michiel van Noort , Sanja Danilovic

We report on a fan-shaped set of high-speed jets above a strongly magnetized light bridge (LB) of a sunspot observed in the H$\alpha$ line. We study the origin, dynamics and thermal properties of the jets using high-resolution imaging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-11 Carolina Robustini , Jorrit Leenaarts , Jaime de la Cruz Rodriguez , Luc Rouppe van der Voort

Investigating light bridges (LBs) helps us comprehend key aspects of sunspots. However, few studies have analyzed the properties of LBs in terms of the geometric height, which is a more realistic perspective given the corrugation of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-15 S. Esteban Pozuelo , A. Asensio Ramos , C. J. Díaz Baso , B. Ruiz Cobo

We report a different type of three-minute chromospheric oscillations above a sunspot in association with a small-scale impulsive event in a light bridge. During our observations, we found a transient brightening in the light bridge. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 Donguk Song , Jongchul Chae , Hannah Kwak , Ryouhei Kano , Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Yong-Jae Moon , Eun-Kyung Lim , Jeongwoo Lee

High-resolution broadband filtergrams of active region NOAA 11271 in Ca ii H and G band were obtained with the Solar Optical Telescope on board Hinode to identify the physical driver responsible for the dynamic and small-scale chromospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Rohan E. Louis , Christian Beck , Kiyoshi Ichimoto

We use high spatial and spectral resolution observations obtained with the CRisp Imaging SpectroPolarimeter at the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope to analyze the velocity profile of granular light bridges in a sunspot. We find upflows…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 L. Rouppe van der Voort , L. R. Bellot Rubio , A. Ortiz