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Various small-scale structures abound in the solar atmosphere above active regions, playing an important role in the dynamics and evolution therein. We report on a new class of small-scale transition region structures in active regions,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 Zhenyong Hou , Zhenghua Huang , Lidong Xia , Bo Li , Maria S. Madjarska , Hui Fu , Chaozhou Mou , Haixia Xie

We study the H$\alpha$ and Ca II 8542 \r{A} line spectra of four typical Ellerman bombs (EBs) in active region NOAA 11765 on 2013 June 6, observed with the Fast Imaging Solar Spectrograph installed at the 1.6 meter New Solar Telescope at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-12 Jie Hong , M. D. Ding , Ying Li , Cheng Fang , Wenda Cao

The solar transition region (TR), in which above the photosphere the tempera- ture increases rapidly and the density drops dramatically, is believed to play an important role in coronal heating and solar wind acceleration. Long-lasting…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 H. Tian , W. Curdt , J. -S. He

Sunspot atmospheres are highly inhomogeneous hosting both quasi-stable and transient features, such as `umbral micro-jets' and dark fibril-like events. We seek to understand the morphological properties and formation mechanisms of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-06 C. J. Nelson , V. M. J. Henriques , M. Mathioudakis , F. P. Keenan

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

Aims. We investigated the potential of using Hepsilon to diagnose small-scale energetic phenomena such as Ellerman bombs, UV bursts, and small-scale flares. Our focus is to understand the formation of the line and how to use its properties…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-27 K. Krikova , T. M. D. Pereira

Rapid Blue- and Red-shifted Excursions (RBEs and RREs) are likely to be the on-disk counterparts of Type II spicules. Recently, heating signatures from RBEs/RREs have been detected in IRIS slit-jaw images dominated by transition-region…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 V. M. J. Henriques , D. Kuridze , M. Mathioudakis , F. P. Keenan

High spatial resolution observation of an emerging flux region (EFR) was done using a vector magnetograph and a H-alpha Lyot filtergraph with Domeless Solar Telescope at Hida Observatory on October 22, 2006. In H-alpha wing images, we could…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 H. Watanabe , R. Kitai , K. Okamoto , K. Nishida , J. Kiyohara , S. UeNo , M. Hagino , T. T. Ishii , K. Shibata

The High Resolution Imager (HRI_EUV) telescope of the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument onboard Solar Orbiter has observed EUV brightenings, so-called campfires, as fine-scale structures at coronal temperatures. The goal of this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-18 Krzysztof Barczynski , Karen A. Meyer , Louise K. Harra , Duncan H. Mackay , Frederic Auchere , David Berghmans

We use Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft data to study a group of Chromospheric ultraviolet bursts (UVBs) associated with an active region. We classify the UVBs into two types: smaller ones that can only be measured…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Pin Wu

Ellerman bombs (EBs) are brightenings in the H$\alpha$ line wings that are believed to be caused by magnetic reconnection in the lower atmosphere. To study the response and evolution of the chromospheric line profiles, we perform radiative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Jie Hong , Mats Carlsson , M. D. Ding

We search for signatures of transition region explosive events (EEs) in hydrogen Ly-beta profiles. Two rasters made by the SUMER (Solar Ultraviolet Measurements of Emitted Radiation) instrument on board SOHO in a quiet-Sun region and an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. Zhang , L. -D. Xia , H. Tian , Y. Chen

The 3D fine structure of the solar atmosphere is still not fully understood as most of the available observations are taken from a single vantage point. The goal of the paper is to study the 3D distribution of small-scale brightening events…

One of the many outcomes of the Solar Orbiter mission is the evidence for the solar atmosphere being filled by highly impulsive bursts, down to about 200 km scale: the limit of the EUV instruments' spatial resolution. Small-scale events of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Susanna Parenti

Multi-wavelength ultraviolet (UV) observations by the IRIS satellite in active region NOAA 12529 have recently pointed out the presence of long-lasting brightenings, akin to UV bursts, and simultaneous plasma ejections occurring in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 Salvo L. Guglielmino , Peter R. Young , Francesca Zuccarello

High-resolution imaging-spectroscopy movies of solar active region NOAA 10998 obtained with the CRisp Imaging SpectroPolarimeter (CRISP) at the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope show very bright, rapidly flickering, flame-like features that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Hiroko Watanabe , Gregal Vissers , Reizaburo Kitai , Luc Rouppe van der Voort , Robert J. Rutten

Transition region explosive events are characterized by non-Gaussian profiles of the emission lines formed at transition region temperatures, and they are believed to be manifestations of small-scale reconnection events in the transition…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-25 Yajie Chen , Hardi Peter , Damien Przybylski

Burst-like events with signatures in the UV are often observed co-spatial to strong line-of-sight photospheric magnetic fields. Several authors, for example, have noted the spatial relationship between Ellerman bombs (EBs) and Moving…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 C. J. Nelson , J. G. Doyle , R. Erdelyi

Recently nonthermal radio transients from the quiet sun have been discovered and it has been hypothesised using rough calculations that they might be important for coronal heating. It is well realized that energy calculations using coherent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Surajit Mondal

The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) provides spectroscopy and narrow band slit-jaw (SJI) imaging of the solar chromosphere and transition region at unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution. Combined with high-resolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 H. Skogsrud , L. Rouppe van der Voort , B. De Pontieu