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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

We use a combination of full-disk data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory and high-resolution data from the Dunn Solar Telescope (DST) to study the formation, structure, and evolution of an atypical light bridge (LB) in a regular sunspot.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Rohan E. Louis , Christian Beck , Debi P. Choudhary

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

Light bridges, the bright structures that divide the umbra of sunspots and pores into smaller pieces, are known to produce wide variety of activity events in solar active regions (ARs). It is also known that the light bridges appear in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Shin Toriumi , Yukio Katsukawa , Mark C. M. Cheung

Light bridges (LBs) are elongated structures with enhanced intensity embedded in sunspot umbra and pores. We studied the properties of a sample of 60 LBs observed with the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). Using IRIS near- and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 Reza Rezaei

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

Light bridge (LB) is bright structure crossing the umbra of sunspots and associated to the breakup or assembly of sunspots. In this paper, a LB is presented and studied using the observatory data obtained by {\it Hinode} satellites.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-07 S. Liu , D. Liu

Light bridges (LBs) are among the most striking sub-structures in sunspots, where various activities have been revealed by recent high-resolution observations from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). According to the variety…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Yijun Hou , Ting Li , Shuhong Yang , Shin Toriumi , Yilin Guo , Jun Zhang

Solar Optical Telescope onboard Hinode observed a sunspot (AR 11836) with two light bridges (LBs) on 31 Aug 2013. We analysed a 2-hour \ion{Ca}{2} H emission intensity data set and detected strong 5-min oscillation power on both LBs and in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Ding Yuan , Valery M. Nakariakov , Zhenghua Huang , Bo Li , Jiangtao Su , Yihua Yan , Baolin Tan

Light bridges (LBs) are relatively bright structures that divide sunspot umbrae into two or more parts. Chromospheric LBs are known to be associated with various activities including fan-shaped jet-like ejections and brightenings. Although…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Eun-Kyung Lim , Heesu Yang , Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Jongchul Chae , Donguk Song , Maria S. Madjarska

We present the results obtained by analyzing high spatial and spectral resolution data of the solar photosphere acquired by the CRisp Imaging SpectroPolarimeter at the Swedish Solar Telescope on 6 August 2011, relevant to a large sunspot…

Sunspot light bridges (LBs) exhibit a wide range of short-lived phenomena in the chromosphere and transition region. In contrast, we use here data from the Multi-Application Solar Telescope (MAST), the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Rohan E. Louis , Shibu K. Mathew , A. Raja Bayanna , Christian Beck , Debi P. Choudhary

Dynamical jets are generally found on Light bridges (LBs), which are key to studying sunspots decays. So far, their formation mechanism is not fully understood. In this paper, we used state-of-the-art observations from the Goode Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 Xianyong Bai , Hector Socas-Navarro , Daniel Nóbrega-Siverio , Jiangtao Su , Yuanyong Deng , Dong Li , Wenda Cao , Kaifan Ji

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…

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

Light bridges (LBs) are bright lanes that divide an umbra into multiple parts in some sunspots. Persistent oscillatory bright fronts at a temperature of $\sim$$10^5$ K are commonly observed above LBs in the 1400/1330 \AA~passbands of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Fuyu Li , Yajie Chen , Yijun Hou , Hui Tian , Xianyong Bai , Yongliang Song

Active regions are the most prominent manifestations of solar magnetic fields; their generation and dissipation are fundamental problems in solar physics. Light bridges are commonly present during sunspot decay, but a comprehensive picture…

Solar magnetic fields are generated in the solar interior and pop up at the solar surface to form active regions. As the magnetic field appears on the surface, it forms various structures like small magnetic elements, pores, and sunspots.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-07 Rolf Schlichenmaier , Reza Rezaei , Nazaret Bello Gonzalez

The emergence and magnetic evolution of solar active regions (ARs) of beta-gamma-delta type, which are known to be highly flare-productive, were studied with the SOHO/MDI data in Cycle 23. We selected 31 ARs that can be observed from their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Kan Takizawa , Reizaburo Kitai

Solar Active Region (AR) 12673 is the most flare productive AR in the solar cycle 24. It produced four X-class flares including the X9.3 flare on 06 September 2017 and the X8.2 limb event on 10 September. Sun and Norton (2017) reported that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 Haimin Wang , Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Chang Liu , Kwangsu Ahn , Shin Toriumi , Wenda Cao
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