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High resolution and seeing-free spectroscopic observation of a decaying sunspot was done with the Solar Optical Telescope aboard Hinode satellite. The target was NOAA 10944 located in the west side of the solar surface from March 2 to March…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Hiroko Watanabe , Reizaburo Kitai , Kiyoshi Ichimoto , Yukio Katsukawa

Three- and five-minute oscillations of sunspots have different spatial distributions in the solar atmospheric layers. The spatial distributions are crucial to reveal the physical origin of sunspot oscillations and to investigate their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Zhengkai Wang , Song Feng , Linhua Deng , Yao Meng

Solar active regions show a wide variety of oscillatory phenomena. The presence of the magnetic field leads to the appearance of several wave modes, whose behavior is determined by the sunspot thermal and magnetic structure. We aim to study…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 T. Felipe , C. Kuckein , E. Khomenko , I. Thaler

The observed solar activity is believed to be driven by the dissipation of nonpotential magnetic energy injected into the corona by dynamic processes in the photosphere. The enormous range of scales involved in the interaction makes it…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Vadim M. Uritsky , Joseph M. Davila , Leon Ofman , Aaron J. Coyner

Sunspots host various oscillations and wave phenomena like umbral flashes, umbral oscillations, running penumbral waves, and coronal waves. All fan loops rooted in sunspot umbra constantly show a 3-min period propagating slow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-22 Ananya Rawat , Girjesh R. Gupta

Helioseismic and magnetohydrodynamic waves are abundant in and above sunspots. Through cross-correlating oscillation signals in the photosphere observed by the SDO/HMI, we reconstruct how waves propagate away from virtual wave sources…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Junwei Zhao , Ruizhu Chen , Thomas Hartlep , Alexander G. Kosovichev

The subsurface structure of a solar sunspot is important in the stability of the sunspots and the energy transport therein. Two subsurface structure models have been proposed, the monolithic and cluster models, but no clear observational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Kyuhyoun Cho , Jongchul Chae , Maria S. Madjarska

Context: Solar pores are small sunspots lacking a penumbra that have a prevailing vertical magnetic field component. They can include light bridges at places with locally reduced magnetic field. Like sunspots, they exhibit a wide range of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 M. Sobotka , M. Švanda , J. Jurčák , P. Heinzel , D. Del Moro , F. Berrilli

We present a new method that combines the results of an oscillation study made in optical and radio observations. The optical spectral measurements in photospheric and chromospheric lines of the line-of-sight velocity were carried out at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 V. E. Abramov-Maximov , G. B. Gelfreikh , N. I. Kobanov , K. Shibasaki , S. A. Chupin

We use images of high spatial, spectral and temporal resolution, obtained using both ground- and space-based instrumentation, to investigate the coupling between wave phenomena observed at numerous heights in the solar atmosphere. Intensity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 D. B. Jess , I. De Moortel , M. Mathioudakis , D. J. Christian , K. P. Reardon , P. H. Keys , F. P. Keenan

Torsional oscillations represent bands of fast and slow zonal flows around the Sun, which extend deep into the convection zone and migrate during solar cycles towards the equator following the sunspot butterfly diagram. Analysis of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-15 Alexander G. Kosovichev , Valery V. Pipin

Optical aberrations and instrument resolution can affect the observed morphological properties of features in the solar atmosphere. However, little work has been done to study the effects of spatial resolution on the dynamical processes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-06 M. Berretti , M. Stangalini , D. B. Jess , S. Jafarzadeh , S. D. T. Grant , G. Verth , V. Fedun , G. Chambers , F. Berrilli

In this work, we studied oscillation parameters in faculae above magnetic knots and in the adjacent to them areas. Using SDO data we analysed oscillations in magnetic strength, Doppler velocity, and intensity signals for the lower…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Andrei A. Chelpanov , Nikolai I. Kobanov , Dmitry Y. Kolobov

We present a seismological method to probe the solar atmosphere above sunspot umbrae with three-minute oscillations. Our technique allows us to estimate both the vertical distance between atmospheric layers and the wave-propagation speed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 A. S. Deres , S. A. Anfinogentov

It is generally believed that sunspots are the emergent part of magnetic flux tubes in the solar interior. These tubes are created at the base of the convection zone and rise to the surface due to their magnetic buoyancy. The motion of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Franck Plunian , Graeme Sarson , Rodion Stepanov

The magnetic activity of the Sun directly impacts the Earth and human life. Likewise, other stars will have an impact on the habitability of planets orbiting these host stars. The lack of information on the magnetic field in the higher…

Recent observations of sunspot's umbra suggested that it may be finely structured at a sub-arcsecond scale representing a mix of hot and cool plasma elements. In this study we report the first detailed observations of the umbral spikes,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 V. Yurchyshyn , V. Abramenko , S. Kosovichev , P. Goode

The magnetic and convective nature of the Sun's photosphere provides a unique platform from which generated waves can be modelled, observed, and interpreted across a wide breadth of spatial and temporal scales. As oscillations are generated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-01 David B. Jess , Peter H. Keys , Marco Stangalini , Shahin Jafarzadeh

Recently, the availability of new high-spatial and -temporal resolution observations of the solar photosphere has allowed the study of the oscillations in small magnetic elements. Small magnetic elements have been found to host a rich…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 M. Stangalini , F. Berrilli , G. Consolini

Waves and oscillations have been observed in the Sun's atmosphere for over half a century. While such phenomena have readily been observed across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, spanning radio to gamma-ray sources, the underlying role…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 David B. Jess , Shahin Jafarzadeh , Peter H. Keys , Marco Stangalini , Gary Verth , Samuel D. T. Grant