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Rapid magnetic upflows in the quiet-Sun photosphere were recently uncovered from both SUNRISE/IMaX and Hinode/SOT observations. Here, we study magnetic upflow events (MUEs) from high-quality, high- (spatial, temporal, and spectral)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-07 S. Jafarzadeh , L. Rouppe van der Voort , J. de la Cruz Rodriguez

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

Bunches of swaying and spinning plasma jets in the solar atmosphere - the spicules - exhibit a variety of complex dynamics that are clearly observed in the images of the solar limb. Utilizing three-dimensional radiative magnetohydrodynamics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-26 Sahel Dey , Piyali Chatterjee , Robertus Erdelyi

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

Solar limb and disc spicule quasi- periodic motions have been reported for a long time, strongly suggesting that they are oscillating. In order to clear up the origin and possibly explain some solar limb and disc spicule quasi-periodic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 E. Tavabi , S. Koutchmy , A. Ajabshirizadeh

Small-scale brightenigs are ubiquitous, dynamic and energetic phenomena found in the chromopshere. An advanced filter-detection algorithm applied to high-resolution observations from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph enables the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-05 Llŷr Humphries , Huw Morgan , David Kuridze

Type-II solar spicules appear as long, thin, highly dynamic strands of field-tied matter that feed significant mass and energy to the corona and solar wind. A recent result is that they exhibit torsional Alfv\'en waves in addition to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-24 Robert J. Rutten

Ellerman bombs and UV bursts are transient brightenings that are ubiquitously observed in the lower atmospheres of active and emerging flux regions. Here we present inversion results of SST/CRISP and CHROMIS, as well as IRIS data of such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 G. J. M. Vissers , J. de la Cruz Rodriguez , T. Libbrecht , L. H. M. Rouppe van der Voort , G. B. Scharmer , M. Carlsson

Aims. We use high-resolution spectropolarimetric observations in the Ca ii 8542 A line obtained with the SST to study the magnetic field in solar spicules. Methods. The equations that result from the application of the Weak Field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-07 M. Kriginsky , R. Oliver , N. Freij , D. Kuridze , A. Asensio Ramos , P. Antolin

The formation of jets such as dynamic fibrils, mottles, and spicules in the solar chromosphere is one of the most important, but also most poorly understood, phenomena of the Sun's magnetized outer atmosphere. We use extremely…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. H. Hansteen , B. de Pontieu , L. Rouppe van der Voort , M. van Noort , M. Carlsson

Small-scale eruptions could play an important role in coronal heating, generation of solar energetic particles (SEPs), and mass source of the solar wind. However, they are poorly observed, and their characteristics, distributions, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-24 Rui Wang , Ying D. Liu , Xiaowei Zhao , Huidong Hu

Coronal bright points (BPs) are small-scale luminous features seen in the solar corona. Quasi-periodic brightenings are frequently observed in the BPs and are generally linked with underneath magnetic flux changes. We study the dynamics of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-05 Tanmoy Samanta , Dipankar Banerjee , Hui Tian

Recent high-resolution solar observations have unveiled the presence of small-scale loop-like structures in the lower solar atmosphere, often referred to as unresolved fine structures, low-lying loops, and miniature hot loops. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-14 Annu Bura , Tanmoy Samanta , Alphonse Sterling , Yajie Chen , Jayant Joshi , Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Ronald L. Moore

Shock waves driven by fast and wide coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are highly efficient particle accelerators involved in the production of solar energetic particle (SEP) events. The gradual SEP event measured by STEREO-A and B on October…

Since photospheric bright points (BPs) were first observed, there has been a question as to how are they structured. Are they just single flux tubes or a bundle of the flux-tubes? Surface photometry of the quiet Sun (QS) has achieved…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Aleksandra Andic , Jongchul Chae , Phillip R. Goode

We investigate the effects of the evolutionary processes in the internal magnetic structure of two interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) detected in situ between 2020 November 29 and December 1 by Parker Solar Probe (PSP). The…

We report on four large filament eruptions (FEs) from solar cycles 23 and 24 that were associated with large solar energetic particle (SEP) events and interplanetary type II radio bursts. The post-eruption arcades corresponded to mostly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 N. Gopalswamy , P. Makela , S. Akiyama , S. Yashiro , H. Xie , N. Thakur , S. W. Kahler

The sustained gamma-ray emission (SGRE) events from the Sun are associated with an ultrafast (2000 km/s or greater) halo coronal mass ejection (CME) and a type II radio burst in the decameter-hectometric (DH) wavelengths. The SGRE duration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-26 Nat Gopalswamy , Pertti Mäkelä , Seiji Yashiro

Our observations of the quiet Sun with the NST have yielded unanticipated results on smal-scale solar dynamic. Althought small-scale solar dynamic have been well-studied, the NST is enabling us to probe finer scale dynamic exploiting higher…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-23 Aleksandra Andic

Recent studies suggest that the magnetic switchbacks (SBs) detected by the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) carry information on the scales of solar supergranulation (large scale) and granulation (medium scale). We test this claim using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-18 Jeongwoo Lee , Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Haimin Wang , Xu Yang , Wenda Cao , Juan Carlos Martinez Oliveros