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A large solar pore with a granular light bridge was observed on October 15, 2008 with the IBIS spectrometer at the Dunn Solar Telescope and a 69-min long time series of spectral scans in the lines Ca II 854.2 nm and Fe I 617.3 nm was…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Sobotka , M. Svanda , J. Jurcak , P. Heinzel , D. Del Moro

Transition-region loops are a type of critical magnetic structure in the solar atmosphere, yet their physical properties and evolutionary characteristics remain statistically poorly constrained. We aim to statistically characterize the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-31 Xiuhui Zuo , Zhenghua Huang , Maria S. Madjarska , Hui Fu , Hengyuan Wei , Xinzheng Shi , Lidong Xia

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

The high temporal, spatial and spectral resolution of Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) has provided new insights into the understanding of different small-scale processes occurring at the chromospheric and transition region (TR)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-03 Nancy Narang , Vaibhav Pant , Dipankar Banerjee , Tom Van Doorsselaere

We report the bi-directional moving structures in a coronal bright point (CBP) on 2015 July 14. It is observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). This CBP has a lifetime of about 10 minutes,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-07 Dong Li , Zongjun Ning , Yingna Su

The parsec-scale total intensity structures of BL Lac objects share many characteristics with quasars: e.g. well-collimated jets and superluminal motion. However, the jets of BL Lac objects appear to fade much more quickly than those in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Reynolds , T. V. Cawthorne , D. C. Gabuzda

Since their discovery twenty year ago, transition region bright points (TRBPs) have never been observed spectroscopically. Bright point properties have not been compared with similar transition region and coronal structures. In this work we…

We have analyzed IRIS spectral and slit-jaw observations of a quiet region near the South Pole. In this article we present an overview of the observations, the corrections, and the absolute calibration of the intensity. We focus on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-09 C. E. Alissandrakis , J. -C. Vial , A. Koukras , E. Buchlin , M. Chane-Yook

Two types of active region feature prominent at transition region temperatures are identified in Hinode/EIS data of AR 10938 taken on 2007 January 20. The footpoints of 1 MK TRACE loops are shown to emit strongly in emission lines formed at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 P. R. Young , G. Del Zanna , H. E. Mason , G. A. Doschek , J. L. Culhane , H. Hara

We investigate various dynamic processes including magnetic reconnection, chromospheric evaporation, and coronal rain draining in two limb solar flares through imaging and spectroscopic observations from the Interface Region Imaging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Ke Yu , Y. Li , Jie Hong , De-Chao Song , M. D. Ding

We present spectroscopic and imaging observations of small-scale reconnection events on the Sun. Using the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) observations, one reconnection event is first detected as IRIS jets with fast…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Dong Li , Leping Li , Zongjun Ning

We report observations of bright dots (BDs) in a sunspot penumbra using High Resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C) data in 193 \AA\ and examine their sizes, lifetimes, speeds, and intensities. The sizes of the BDs are on the order of 1\arcsec\…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Shane E. Alpert , Sanjiv K. Tiwari , Ronald L. Moore , Amy R. Winebarger , Sabrina L. Savage

11 transient bright flashes were detected in Jupiter's atmosphere using the UVS instrument on the Juno spacecraft. These bright flashes are only observed in a single spin of the spacecraft and their brightness decays exponentially with…

Around 50 PNe are presently known to possess "small-scale" low-ionization structures (LISs). We consider here jets, jet-like, symmetrical and non-symmetrical LISs and present a detailed comparison of the existing model predictions with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Denise R. Goncalves , Romano L. M. Corradi , Antonio Mampaso

Aims. We examine high time resolution dynamic spectra for fine structures in type II solar radio bursts Methods. We used data obtained with the (SAO) receiver of the Artemis-JLS (ARTEMIS-IV) solar radio spectrograph in the 450-270 MHz range…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 S. Armatas , C. Bouratzis , A. Hillaris , C. E. Alissandrakis , P. Preka-Papadema , X. Moussas , E. Mitsakou , P. Tsitsipis , A. Kontogeorgos

Delta ($\delta$) sunspots sometimes host fast photospheric flows along the central magnetic polarity inversion line (PIL). Here we study the strong Doppler shift signature in the central penumbral light bridge of solar active region NOAA…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-20 Jiayi Liu , Xudong Sun , Peter W. Schuck , Sarah A. Jaeggli , Brian T. Welsch , Carlos Quintero Noda

We have investigated properties of photospheric Bright Points (BPs) observed in an Active Region during its decay phase and in a quiet Sun region. We have analyzed two sets of photospheric observations taken with IBIS (Interferometric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-23 S. Criscuoli , D. Del Moro , F. Giorgi , P. Romano , F. Berrilli , I. Ermolli , B. Viticchié , F. Zuccarello

Jupiters ultraviolet aurora frequently shows a number of arcs between the dusk-side polar region and the main emission, which are denoted as bridges. This work presents a largely automated detection and statistical analysis of bridges over…

We present observations of persistent oscillations of some bright features in the upper-chromosphere/transition-region above sunspots taken by IRIS SJ 1400 {\AA} and upward propagating quasi-periodic disturbances along coronal loops rooted…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-21 Zhenyong Hou , Zhenghua Huang , Lidong Xia , Bo Li , Hui Fu

We analyze a solar active region observed by the Hinode CaII H line using the time-distance helioseismology technique, and infer wave-speed perturbation structures and flow fields beneath the active region with a high spatial resolution.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Junwei Zhao , Alexander G. Kosovichev , Takashi Sekii
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