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Sunspots are concentrations of magnetic field visible on the solar surface (photosphere). It was considered implausible that solar flares, as resulted from magnetic reconnection in the tenuous corona, would cause a direct perturbation of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-12 Chang Liu , Yan Xu , Wenda Cao , Na Deng , Jeongwoo Lee , Hugh S. Hudson , Dale E. Gary , Jiasheng Wang , Ju Jing , Haimin Wang

Context. The height structure of 3-min oscillations over sunspots is studied in the context of the recently discovered effect of height inversion: over the umbra, the spatial location of the maximum of chromospheric 3-min oscillation power…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-11 N. I. Kobanov , D. Y. Kolobov , S. A. Chupin , V. M. Nakariakov

The frequencies of the solar acoustic oscillations vary over the activity cycle. The variations in other activity proxies are found to be well correlated with the variations in the acoustic frequencies. However, each proxy has a slightly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 A. R. G. Santos , M. S. Cunha , P. P. Avelino , W. J. Chaplin , T. L. Campante

Solar five-minute oscillations have been detected in the power spectra of two six-day time intervals from soft X-ray measurements of the Sun observed as a star using the Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrophotometer (ESP) onboard the Solar Dynamics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Leonid Didkovsky , Alexander Kosovichev , Darrell Judge , Seth Wieman , Tom Woods

Solar flares are intense bursts of electromagnetic radiation, which occur due to a rapid destabilization and reconnection of the magnetic field. While pre-flare signatures and trends have been investigated from magnetic observations prior…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 Kara L. Kniezewski , Emily I. Mason , Daniel J. Emmons , Kyle E. Fitch , Seth H. Garland

We report the simultaneous presence of chromospheric umbral flashes and associated umbral waves, and propagating coronal disturbances, in a sunspot and related active region. We have analyzed time-distance maps obtained using the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 Aishawnnya Sharma , G. R. Gupta , Durgesh Tripathi , V. Kashyap , Amit Pathak

Sunspots are regions of decreased brightness on the visible surface of the Sun (photosphere) that are associated with strong magnetic fields. They have been found to be locations associated with solar flares, which occur when energy stored…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-24 Sophie A. Murray

The processes governing energy storage and release in the Sun are both related to the solar magnetic field. We demonstrate the existence of a magnetic connection between energy released caused by a flare and increased oscillatory power in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-17 Aleksandra Andic , R. T. James McAteer

We have analyzed H-alpha intensity images obtained at a 1 minute cadence with the Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG) system to investigate the properties of oscillations in the 0-8 mHz frequency band at the location and time of strong…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-08 Teresa Monsue , Frank Hill , Keivan G. Stassun

Solar flare emission at X-ray and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) energies can cause substantial enhancements in the electron density in the Earth's lower ionosphere. It is now become clear that flares exhibit quasi-periodic pulsations with…

With the high-resolution data from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, we detect a light wall above a sunspot light bridge in the NOAA active region (AR) 12403. In the 1330 A slit-jaw images, the light wall is brighter than the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 Yijun Hou , Jun Zhang , Ting Li , Shuhong Yang , Leping Li , Xiaohong Li

The acoustic resonator is an important model for explaining the three-minute oscillations in the chromosphere above sunspot umbrae. The steep temperature gradients at the photosphere and transition region provide the cavity for the acoustic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 B. Snow , G. J. J. Botha , S. Regnier

We present simultaneous X-ray and spectral ultraviolet (UV) observations of strikingly-coherent oscillations in emission from a coronal looptop and fan structure, during the impulsive phase of a long-duration M-class solar flare. The 50 s…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-06 Ryan J. French , Laura A. Hayes , Maria D. Kazachenko , Katharine K. Reeves , Chengcai Shen , Juraj Lörinčík

We address a possibility of the flare process initiation and further maintenance of its energy release due to a transformation of sunspot longitudinal waves into transverse magnetic loop oscillations with initiation of reconnection. This…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 R. Sych , M. Karlický , A. Altyntsev , J. Dudík , L. Kashapova

We use high spatial and temporal resolution observations, simultaneously obtained with the New Vacuum Solar Telescope and Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory, to investigate the high-frequency…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Feng Wang , Hui Deng , Bo Li , Song Feng , Xianyong Bai , Linhua Deng , Yunfei Yang , Zhike Xue , Rui Wang

We search for indications of waves in the 25-2000 MHz radio spectrum of the 1 August 2010 event (SOL2010-08-01T08:57:00L075C013), where fast propagating waves in the solar corona with the periods of 181, 69, and 40 seconds were detected in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 M. Karlicky , J. Rybak

We present results from the investigation of 5-min umbral oscillations in a single-polarity sunspot of active region NOAA 12132. The spectra of TiO, H$\alpha$, and 304 \AA{} are used for corresponding atmospheric heights from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 T. G. Priya , Wenda Cao , Jiangtao Su , Jie Chen , Xinjie Mao , Yuanyong Deng , Robert Erdélyi

Solar flares are known to generate seismic waves in the Sun. We present a detailed analysis of seismic emission in sunspots accompanying M- and X-class solar flares. For this purpose, we have used high-resolution Dopplergrams and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-13 Hirdesh Kumar , Brajesh Kumar

New results in the study of solar type III bursts observed with the UTR-2 radio telescope are presented. The main feature of these bursts is a high-frequency cut-off. The solar activity manifestation was connected with the emergency of a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 A. A. Stanislavsky

Oscillations in sunspot umbrae exhibit remarkable differences between the photosphere and chromosphere. We evaluate two competing scenarios proposed for explaining those observations: a chromospheric resonant cavity and waves traveling from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 T. Felipe , C. Kuckein , S. J. González Manrique , I. Milic , C. R. Sangeetha