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The properties of solar flare plasma can be determined from the observation of optically thin lines. The emitting ion distribution determines the shape of the line, with an isothermal Maxwellian ion distribution producing a Gaussian…

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Using data from the Helioseismic Magnetic Imager, we report on the amplitudes and phase relations of oscillations in quiet-Sun, plage, umbra and the polarity inversion line (PIL) of an active region NOAA$\#$11158. We employ Fourier, wavelet…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 A. A. Norton , R. B. Stutz , B. T. Welsch

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

The solar convection manifests as granulation and intergranulation at the solar surface. In the photosphere, convective motions induce differential Doppler shifts to spectral lines. The observed convective blueshift varies across the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Johannes Löhner-Böttcher , Wolfgang Schmidt , Franziska Stief , Tilo Steinmetz , Ronald Holzwarth

We analyze observations from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph of the Mg II k line, the Mg II UV subordinate lines, and the O I 135.6 nm line to better understand the solar plage chromosphere. We also make comparisons with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-21 Mats Carlsson , Jorrit Leenaarts , Bart De Pontieu

In this study, we investigate motions in the hot plasma above the flare loops during the 2017 September 10 X8.2 flare event. We examine the region to the south of the main flare arcade, where there is data from the Interface Region Imaging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Katharine K. Reeves , Vanessa Polito , Bin Chen , Giselle Galan , Sijie Yu , Wei Liu , Gang Li

Doppler shifts of the Fe I spectral line at lambda5250 Angstroms from the full solar disk obtained over the period 1986 to 2009 are analyzed to determine the circulation velocity of the solar surface along meridional planes. Simultaneous…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Roger K. Ulrich

We report striking Doppler velocity gradients observed during the well-observed September 10th 2017 solar flare, and argue that they are consistent with the presence of an above-the-looptop termination shock beneath the flare current sheet.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-08 Ryan J. French , Sijie Yu , Bin Chen , Chengcai Shen , Sarah A. Matthews

We investigate the ratio of the vertical and horizontal velocities of the photospheric plasma flows in the region of emerging magnetic fields on the Sun. We carried out a study of photospheric velocities during the first hours of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-17 A. Khlystova

During solar flares, a considerable portion of the flare atmosphere becomes heated; however, the energy deposition process is still unclear, especially in the lower solar atmosphere. Here, we present spectroscopic and imaging observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Girjesh Gupta , Ananya Rawat , Helen Mason , Robertus Erdélyi

The measurement of Doppler velocities in spectroscopic solar observations requires a reference for the local frame of rest. The rotational and radial velocities of the Earth and the rotation of the Sun introduce velocity offsets in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jaime de la Cruz Rodríguez , Dan Kiselman , Mats Carlsson

We study the dynamics of plasma along the legs of an arch filament system (AFS) from the chromosphere to the photosphere, observed with high-cadence spectroscopic data from two ground-based solar telescopes: the GREGOR telescope (Tenerife)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-26 S. J. González Manrique , C. Kuckein , A. Pastor Yabar , A. Diercke , M. Collados , P. Gömöry , S. Zhong , Y. Hou , C. Denker

Context. The details of the spectral profiles of extreme UV emission lines from solar active regions contain key information to investigate the structure, dynamics, and energetics of the solar upper atmosphere. Aims. We characterize the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 Leping Li , Hardi Peter

The velocity pattern of a fan loop structure within a solar active region over the temperature range 0.15-1.5 MK is derived using data from the EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) on board the Hinode satellite. The loop is aligned towards the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 P. R. Young , B. O'Dwyer , H. E. Mason

Transit spectroscopy is one of the most commonly used techniques for exoplanet atmosphere characterisation. This technique has been used to detect ionized and neutral species in exoplanet atmospheres by comparing the observed stellar lines…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-12 Fei Yan , Enric Pallé , Robert A. E. Fosbury , Monika G. Petr-Gotzens , Thomas Henning

NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) small explorer mission will study how the solar atmosphere is energized. IRIS contains an imaging spectrograph that covers the Mg II h&k lines as well as a slit-jaw imager centered at Mg…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 J. Leenaarts , T. M. D. Pereira , M. Carlsson , H. Uitenbroek , B. de Pontieu

The equivalent widths (W) of 565 spectral lines in the wavelength range of 4690--6870A were evaluated at 31 consecutive points from the solar disk center (mu=cos(theta)=1) to near the limb (mu=0.25) by applying the synthetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 Y. Takeda , S. UeNo

A statistical analysis of radio flare events was performed by using the event list of Nobeyama Radioheliograph in 1996-2009. We examined center-to-limb variations of 17GHz and 34GHz flux by dividing the flare events into different groups…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Tomoko Kawate , Ayumi Asai , Ichimoto Kiyoshi

Science Verification (SV) data of solar observations with Atacama Large Millimeter-submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope were released to the scientific community. Understanding the centre to limb brightness function is necessary to compare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-20 Davor Sudar , Roman Brajša , Ivica Skokić , Arnold O. Benz

While previous work explored the fractality and self-organized criticality (SOC) of flares and nanoflares in wavelengths emitted in the solar corona (such as in hard X-rays, soft X-rays, and EUV wavelenghts), we focus here on impulsive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-27 Markus J. Aschwanden , Nived Vilangot Nhalil