English
Related papers

Related papers: Solar Spicules, Filigrees and Solar Wind Switchbac…

200 papers

Parker Solar Probe (PSP) observes unexpectedly prevalent switchbacks, which are rapid magnetic field reversals that last from seconds to hours, in the inner heliosphere, posing new challenges to understanding their nature, origin, and…

Switchbacks (SBs) are localized structures in the solar wind containing deflections of the magnetic field direction relative to the background solar wind magnetic field. The amplitudes of the magnetic field deflection angles for different…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-05 O. V. Agapitov , J. F. Drake , M. Swisdak , K. -E. Choi , N. Raouafi

Coronal Bright Points (CBPs) are sets of small-scale coronal loops, connecting opposite magnetic polarities, primarily characterized by their enhanced extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) and X-ray emission. Being ubiquitous, they are thought to play…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 Souvik Bose , Daniel Nóbrega-Siverio , Bart De Pontieu , Luc Rouppe van der Voort

Parker Solar Probe (PSP) observed a high speed stream near the Sun ($\sim 9.8 R_\odot$) in March 2025. As this stream was observed near the Sun, it allowed for an unparalleled opportunity to observe pristine, coronal hole wind with little…

Space Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Kai Jaffarove , Tamar Ervin , Stuart D. Bale

This work provides additional evidence on the involvement of exotic particles like axions and/or other WISPs, following recent measurements during the quietest Sun and flaring Sun. Thus, SPHINX mission observed a minimum basal soft X-rays…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-20 K. Zioutas , M. Tsagri , Y. Semertzidis , T. Papaevangelou , E. Georgiopoulou , A. Gardikiotis , T. Dafni

Solar-like oscillations are excited stochastically by convection. They occur in stars with an outer convection zone, which includes the Sun and other stars on the lower main sequence, as well as cool subgiants and red giants. This chapter…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-12 Timothy R. Bedding

The Parker Solar Probe (PSP) observed an interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) event during its first orbit around the sun, among many other events. This event is analyzed by applying a wavelet analysis technique to obtain the reduced…

Spicules were recently found to exist as two types when a new class of so-called type II spicules was discovered at the solar limb with Hinode. The type II spicules have been linked with on-disk observations of Rapid Blue-shifted Excursions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-28 Dan Henrik Sekse , Luc Rouppe van der Voort , Bart De Pontieu

Small-scale magnetic flux ropes (SFRs) are a type of structures in the solar wind that possess helical magnetic field lines. In a recent report (Chen & Hu 2020), we presented the radial variations of the properties of SFR from 0.29 to 8 au…

Solar campfires are fine-scale heating events, recently observed by Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI), onboard Solar Orbiter. Here we use EUI 174\AA\ images, together with EUV images from SDO/AIA, and line-of-sight magnetograms from SDO/HMI…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Navdeep K. Panesar , Sanjiv K. Tiwari , David Berghmans , Mark C. M. Cheung , Daniel Muller , Frederic Auchere , Andrei Zhukov

Switchbacks (SBs) are localized magnetic field deflections in the solar wind, marked by abrupt changes in the magnetic field direction relative to the ambient solar wind. Observations onboard Parker Solar Probe (PSP) at heliocentric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-03 Kyung-Eun Choi , Oleksiy V. Agapitov , Nina Bizien , Thierry Dudok De Wit , Lucas Colomban

We reconstruct the morphology and kinematics of a series of small transients that erupt from the Sun on 2021 April 24 using observations primarily from Parker Solar Probe (PSP). These sequential small coronal mass ejections (CMEs) may be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-16 Brian E. Wood , Phillip Hess , Yu Chen , Qiang Hu

Small-scale Brightenings (SBs) are commonly observed in the transition region that separates the solar chromosphere from the corona. These brightenings, omnipresent in active region patches known as "moss" regions, could potentially…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-22 Bhinva Ram , Tanmoy Samanta , Yajie Chen , Alphonse Sterling , Jayant Joshi , Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta , Vaibhav Pant

Macrospicules are relatively large spicule-like formations found mainly over the polar coronal holes when observing in the transition region spectral lines. In this study, we took advantage of the two short series of observations in the He…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-04 I. P. Loboda , S. A. Bogachev

The fast solar wind that fills the heliosphere originates from deep within regions of open magnetic field on the Sun called coronal holes. The energy source responsible for accelerating the plasma to high speeds is widely debated, however…

Solar radio spikes are short duration and narrow bandwidth fine structures in dynamic spectra observed from GHz to tens of MHz range. Their very short duration and narrow frequency bandwidth are indicative of sub-second small-scale energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-31 Daniel L. Clarkson , Eduard P. Kontar , Mykola Gordovskyy , Nicolina Chrysaphi , Nicole Vilmer

Drawing connections between heliospheric spacecraft and solar wind sources is a vital step in understanding the evolution of the solar corona into the solar wind and contextualizing \textit{in situ} timeseries. Furthermore, making advanced…

We perform a 2.5 dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation to understand a comprehensive view of the formation of spicule-like cool jets due to initial transverse velocity pulses akin to Alfv\'en pulses in the solar chromosphere. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-02 B. Singh , A. K. Srivastava , K. Sharma , S. K. Mishra , B. N. Dwivedi

We identify more than ten steady sub-Alfv\'enic solar wind intervals from the measurements of the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) from encounter 8 to encounter 14. An analysis of these sub-Alfv\'enic intervals reveals similar properties and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-05 Yiming Jiao , Ying D. Liu , Hao Ran , Wenshuai Cheng

We present a solitary Alfv\'en wave model that exhibits nontrivial three-dimensional twisting of open magnetic field lines while preserving constant $|B|$. Embedded rotational discontinuities sharply deflect the otherwise uniform field…

Space Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Zesen Huang , Marco Velli , Yuliang Ding