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Spicules are ubiquitous, small-scale features in the solar atmosphere, exhibiting a jet-like appearance most clearly identified by their apparent motion in off-limb observations. While they are often interpreted as narrow, thread-like…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-26 Sanghita Chandra , Robert Cameron , Damien Przybylski , Sami K. Solanki

Rapid blue- and red-shifted events (RBEs/RREs) may have an important role in mass-loading and heating the solar corona, but their nature and origin are still debatable. We aim to model these features to learn more about their properties,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 S. Danilovic , J. P. Bjørgen , J. Leenaarts , M. Rempel

New instrumental and telescopes covering the optical and ultra-violet spectral regions have revealed a range of small-scale dynamic features, many which may be related. For example, the range of spicule-like features hints towards a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 Nived Vilangot Nhalil , Juie Shetye , J. Gerry Doyle

We analyse high temporal and spatial resolution time-series of spectral scans of the Halpha line obtained with the CRisp Imaging SpectroPolarimeter (CRISP) instrument mounted on the Swedish Solar Telescope. The data reveal highly dynamic,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 D. Kuridze , V. Henriques , M. Mathioudakis , R. Erdélyi , T. V. Zaqarashvili , S. Shelyag , P. H. Keys , F. P. Keenan

Numerical simulations of the solar chromosphere have progressed towards reproducing spicules, which are transient features observed at the solar limb using spectral lines such as H$\alpha$, Ca II H&K, or Mg II h&k. Two types of spicules,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Sanghita Chandra , Robert Cameron , Damien Przybylski , Sami K. Solanki

Small-scale transient jetlet activity and associated upflows from coronal hole plumes are potential sources of the solar wind. To elucidate the magnetic origins and driving mechanisms of such upflows, we perform three-dimensional radiative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 Kamlesh Bora , Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta , Yajie Chen , Damien Przybylski , David Pontin , Nikil Panyam

Spicules are the thin hair/grass-like structures that are prominently observed at the chromospheric solar limb. It is believed that fibrils and rapid blueshifted and redshifted excursions (RBEs and RREs; collectively referred to as REs)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-09 Ravi Chaurasiya , Ankala Raja Bayanna , R. E. Louis , T. M. D. Pereira , S. K. Mathew

High-speed downflows have been observed in the solar transition region (TR) and lower corona for many decades. Despite their abundance, it has been hard to find signatures of such downflows in the solar chromosphere. In this work, we target…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Souvik Bose , Jayant Joshi , Vasco M. J. Henriques , Luc Rouppe van der Voort

Recent observations revealed loop-like structures at very small scales visible in observables that sample transition region (TR) and coronal temperatures. Their formation remains unclear. We study an example of a bipolar system in realistic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 M. Skan , S. Danilovic , J. Leenaarts , F. Calvo , M. Rempel

We have performed a three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulation to study the emergence of a twisted magnetic flux tube from -20,000 km of the solar convection zone to the corona through the photosphere and the chromosphere. The middle…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 S. Toriumi , T. Yokoyama

Chromospheric observations taken at high cadence and high spatial resolution show a range of spicule like features, including Type I, Type II (as well as RBEs and RREs) and those which seem to appear within a few seconds, which if…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 J. Shetye , J. G. Doyle , E. Scullion , C. J. Nelson , D. Kuridze , V. Henriques , F. Woeger , T. Ray

While solar flares are primarily associated with enhanced ultraviolet and X-ray emission, a subset of flares exhibit significant continuum brightening in visible light and are classified as white-light flares (WLFs). Despite extensive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-01 Samuel Granovsky , Alexander G. Kosovichev , Irina N. Kitiashvili , Alan A. Wray

A Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) is an inhomogeneous structure consisting of different features which evolve differently with the propagation of the CME. Simultaneous heliospheric tracking of different observed features of a CME can improve…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Wageesh Mishra , Nandita Srivastava

Results of a 3D MHD simulation of a sunspot with a photospheric size of about 20 Mm are presented. The simulation has been carried out with the MURaM code, which includes a realistic equation of state with partial ionization and radiative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 M. Rempel , M. Schuessler , M. Knoelker

The Mg ii h&k lines are key diagnostics of the solar chromosphere. They are sensitive to the temperature, density, and non-thermal velocities in the chromosphere. The average Mg ii h&k line profiles arising from previous 3D chromospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-27 P. Ondratschek , D. Przybylski , H. N. Smitha , R. Cameron , S. K. Solanki , J. Leenaarts

Over the last two decades the uninterrupted, high-resolution observations of the Sun, from the excellent range of telescopes aboard many spacecraft complemented with observations from sophisticated ground-based telescopes have opened up a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 G. Tsiropoula , K. Tziotziou , I. Kontogiannis , M. S. Madjarska , J. G. Doyle , Y. Suematsu

Sequences of line-of-sight (LOS) magnetograms recorded by the Michelson-Doppler Imager are used to quantitatively characterize photospheric magnetic structure and evolution in three active regions that rotated across the Sun's disk during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 B. T. Welsch , S. Christe , J. M. McTiernan

We used \ha-0.1 nm and magnetic field (at 1.56$\mu$) data obtained with the New Solar Telescope to study the origin of the disk counterparts to type II spicules, so-called rapid blueshifted excursions (RBEs). The high time cadence of our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-30 Vasyl Yurchyshyn , Valentyna Abramenko , Phil Goode

Vortex flows are structures associated with the rotation of the plasma and/or the magnetic field that are present throughout the solar atmosphere. In recent years, their study has become increasingly important, as they are present on a wide…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-04 M. Koll Pistarini , E. Khomenko , T. Felipe

We present the application of the data-driven branch of the MURaM code, which follows the evolution of the active region 11640 over 4 days starting from 2012 December 30 at 12:00 UT and reproduces many key coronal extreme-ultraviolet (EUV)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-14 Feng Chen
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