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Bright points (BPs) are manifestations of small magnetic elements in the solar photosphere. Their brightness contrast not only gives insight into the thermal state of the photosphere (and chromosphere) in magnetic elements, but also plays…

We analyze several unusual filamentary structures, which appeared in the umbra of one of the sunspots in AR 11302. They do not resemble typical light bridges, neither in morphology, nor in evolution. We analyze data from SDO/HMI to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Lucia Kleint , Alberto Sainz Dalda

The evolution of the physical parameters of magnetic bright points (MBPs) located in the quiet Sun (mainly in the interwork) during their lifetime is studied. First we concentrate on the detailed description of the magnetic field evolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-10 D. Utz , J. C. del Toro Iniesta , L. R. Bellot Rubio , J. Jurčák , V. Martínez Pillet , S. K. Solanki , W. Schmidt

The term "ultraviolet (UV) burst" is introduced to describe small, intense, transient brightenings in ultraviolet images of solar active regions. We inventorize their properties and provide a definition based on image sequences in…

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

Here, we present several examples of unusual evolutionary patterns in solar coronal loops that resemble cross-field drift motions. These loops were simultaneously observed from two vantage points by two different spacecraft: the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 Sudip Mandal , Hardi Peter , James A. Klimchuk , Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta

Major solar flares are prone to occur in active region atmospheres associated with large, complex, dynamically-evolving sunspots. This points to the importance of monitoring the evolution of starspots, not only in visible but also in ultra…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Shin Toriumi , Vladimir S. Airapetian , Hugh S. Hudson , Carolus J. Schrijver , Mark C. M. Cheung , Marc L. DeRosa

Many sunspots are surrounded by a radial outflow called the moat flow. We investigate the moat flow at two different heights of the solar atmosphere for a sunspot whose magnetic properties were reported in the first paper of this series. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 H. Balthasar , K. Muglach

We present observational evidence of apparent plasma rotational motions in the feet of a solar prominence. Our study is based on spectroscopic observations taken in the He I 1083.0 nm multiplet with the Tenerife Infrared Polarimeter…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 D. Orozco Suárez , A. Asensio Ramos , J. Trujillo Bueno

High resolution imaging observation of a sunspot umbra was done with Hinode Solar Optical Telescope (SOT). Filtergrams in wavelengths of blue and green continuum were taken during three consecutive days. The umbra consisted of a dark core…

The identification of large numbers of localised transient EUV brightenings, with small spatial scales, in the quiet-Sun corona has been one of the key early results from Solar Orbiter. However, much is still unknown about these events.…

In this paper, we present the observations of two successive fast-mode extreme ultraviolet (EUV) wave events observed on 2016 July 23. Both fast-mode waves were observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument on board the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 R. Chandra , P. F. Chen , R. Joshi , B. Joshi , B. Schmieder

Context. The solar corona maintains temperatures of a million Kelvin or more. The plasma heating mechanisms responsible for these extreme temperatures are still unclear. Large regions of magnetic activity in the photosphere cause extreme…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-17 I. Kraus , Ph. -A. Bourdin , J. Zender , M. Bergmann , A. Hanslmeier

Recent analysis of high-cadence white-light images taken by the Solar-Terrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) near solar maximum has revealed that outflowing density structures are released in an ubiquitous manner in the solar wind. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 Léa Griton , Rui F. Pinto , Nicolas Poirier , Athanasios Kouloumvakos , Michaël Lavarra , Alexis P. Rouillard

The quiet solar corona consists of myriads of loop-like features, with magnetic fields originating from network and internetwork regions on the solar surface. The continuous interaction between these different magnetic patches leads to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-13 L. P. Chitta , H. Peter , P. R. Young

Sunspots are concentrations of magnetic field on the visible solar surface that strongly affect the convective energy transport in their interior and surroundings. The filamentary outer regions (penumbrae) of sunspots show systematic radial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-17 M. Rempel , M. Schüssler , R. H. Cameron , M. Knölker

Plasma upflows with a Doppler shift exceeding -10 km/s at active region (AR) boundaries are considered potential sources of the nascent slow solar wind. We investigate the driving mechanisms of a pair of coronal upflow regions on the…

The Hinode satellite opens a new era to the sunspots research, because of its high spatial resolution and temporal stability. Fine scale structures in sunspots, called umbral dots (UDs), have become one of the hottest topics in terms of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Hiroko Watanabe

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