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The fan-spine magnetic topology is believed to be responsible for many curious features in solar explosive events. A spine field line links distinct flux domains, but direct observation of such feature has been rare. Here we report a unique…

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Circumbinary planets (CBPs) are planets that orbit around both stars of a binary system. This chapter traces the history of research on CBPs and provides an overview over the current knowledge about CBPs and their detection methods. After…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-24 Hans J Deeg , Laurance R Doyle

The present study provides statistical information on the coronal magnetic field and intensity properties of small-scale bright and faint loops in the quiet Sun. We aim to quantitatively investigate the morphological and topological…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-16 Maria S. Madjarska , Thomas Wiegelmann , Pascal Démoulin , Klaus Galsgaard

Evidence for small amounts of very hot plasma has been found in active regions and might be the indication of an impulsive heating, released at spatial scales smaller than the cross section of a single loop. We investigate the heating and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 E. Tajfirouze , F. Reale , A. Petralia , P. Testa

Hot channels (HCs), high temperature erupting structures in the lower corona of the Sun, have been proposed as a proxy of magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) since their initial discovery. However, it is difficult to make definitive proof given the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Hongqiang Song , Yao Chen , Jie Zhang , Xin Cheng , Bing Wang , Qiang Hu , Gang Li , Yuming Wang

Even in quiet areas underneath coronal holes the solar chromosphere contains ubiquitous heating events. They tend to be small scale and short lived, hence difficult to identify. Here we do not address their much-debated contribution to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-24 Robert J. Rutten , Luc H. M. Rouppe van der Voort , Bart De Pontieu

We make a comparison between small scale chromospheric brightenings and energy release processes through examining the temporal evolution of sequential chromospheric brightenings (SCBs), derive propagation velocities, and propose a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-07 Michael S. Kirk , K. S. Balasubramaniam , Jason Jackiewicz , R. T. James McAteer , Bernie J. McNamara

New instrumental and telescopes covering the optical and ultra-violet spectral regions have revealed a range of small-scale dynamic features, many which may be related. For example, the range of spicule-like features hints towards a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 Nived Vilangot Nhalil , Juie Shetye , J. Gerry Doyle

Bright points (BPs) are small-scale, dynamic features that are ubiquitous across the solar disc and are often associated with the underlying magnetic field. Using broadband photospheric images obtained with the Visible Broadband Imager at…

Spicules are small hairy like structures seen at the solar limb mainly at chromospheric and transition region lines. They generally live for 3-10 minutes. We observe these spicules in a south polar region of the Sun with a coordinated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-16 Tanmoy Samanta , Vaibhav Pant , Dipankar Banerjee

Ultraviolet (UV) bursts and Ellerman bombs (EBs) are small-scale magnetic reconnection events taking place in the highly stratified, low solar atmosphere. It is still not clear whether UV bursts have to be generated at a higher atmospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Lei Ni , Guanchong Cheng , Jun Lin

Ellerman bombs (EBs) are tiny brightenings often observed near sunspots. The most impressive characteristic of the EB spectra is the two emission bumps in both wings of the H$\alpha$ and \ion{Ca}{II} 8542 {\AA} lines. High-resolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Z. Li , C. Fang , Y. Guo , P. F. Chen , Z. Xu , W. Cao

Low-frequency turbulence in the solar chromosphere remains poorly understood. We address 1) the sources of low-frequency turbulence that potentially heat the chromosphere, and 2) how turbulence is transported and dissipated throughout the…

Brightenings observed in the solar extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) images are generally interpreted as signatures of micro- or nanoflares occurring at the transition region or coronal temperatures. Recent observations with the Extreme Ultraviolet…

Popular scientific summary -- The atmosphere of the Sun is envisioned as composed of inherently complex, non-homogeneous, and dynamic layers. A detailed understanding of the physical processes involved in these layers is still lacking. For…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-22 Souvik Bose

Context. Recent observations by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) on board Solar Orbiter have characterized prevalent small-scale transient brightenings in the corona above the quiet Sun termed campfires. Aims. In this study we search…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Yajie Chen , Damien Przybylski , Hardi Peter , Hui Tian , F. Auchère , D. Berghmans

We present an overview of fine-scale features in the Sun's atmosphere, with a focus on spicules and jets. We consider older and newer observations and theories for chromospheric spicules and coronal jets. We also consider the connection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-04 Alphonse C. Sterling

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) consists of photons that were last created about 2 months after the Big Bang, and last scattered about 380,000 years after the Big Bang. The spectrum of the CMB is very close to a blackbody at 2.725 K…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. L. Wright

Spicules, the smallest observable jet-like dynamic features ubiquitous in the chromosphere, are supposedly an important potential source for small-scale solar wind transients, with supporting evidence yet needed. We studied the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-18 Jeongwoo Lee , Haimin Wang , Jiasheng Wang , Meiqi Wang

New and advanced space-based observing facilities continue to lower the resolution limit and detect solar coronal loops in greater detail. We continue to discover even finer sub-structures within coronal loop cross sections, in order to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Eamon Scullion , Luc Rouppe van der Voort , Sven Wedemeyer , Patrick Antolin