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Acoustic waves are one of the primary suspects besides magnetic fields for the chromospheric heating process to temperatures above radiative equilibrium (RE). We derived the mechanical wave energy as seen in line-core velocities to obtain a…

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With the recent advent of the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST), advanced image processing techniques, as well as numerical simulations that provide a more realistic view of the chromosphere, a comprehensive understanding of chromospheric…

Bright points (BPs) in the solar photosphere are radiative signatures of magnetic elements described by slender flux tubes located in the darker intergranular lanes. They contribute to the ultraviolet (UV) flux variations over the solar…

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The formation and evolution of active regions is an inherently complex phenomenon. Magnetic fields generated at the base of the convection zone follow a chaotic evolution before reaching the solar surface. In this article, we use a 2-D…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Vlahos , T. Fragos , H. Isliker , M. Georgoulis

We explore the amplification of magnetic fields in the high-redshift Universe. For this purpose, we perform high-resolution cosmological simulations following the formation of primordial halos with \sim10^7 M_solar, revealing the presence…

Emerging flux regions (EFRs) are known to exhibit various sporadic local heating events in the lower atmosphere. To investigate the characteristics of these events, especially to link the photospheric magnetic fields and atmospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Shin Toriumi , Yukio Katsukawa , Mark C. M. Cheung

Solar active regions and sunspots are believed to be formed by the emergence of strong toroidal magnetic flux from the solar interior. Modeling of such events has focused on the dynamics of compact magnetic entities, colloquially known as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Bhishek Manek , Nicholas Brummell

High temporal and spatial resolution observations from the Rapid Oscillations in the Solar Atmosphere (ROSA) multiwavelength imager on the Dunn Solar Telescope are used to study the velocities of small-scale H{\alpha} jets in an emerging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 D. Kuridze , M. Mathioudakis , D. B. Jess , S. Shelyag , D. J. Christian , F. P. Keenan , K. S. Balasubramaniam

Investigating the early-stage evolution of an erupting flux rope from the Sun is important to understand the mechanisms of how it looses its stability and its space weather impacts. Our aim is to develop an efficient scheme for tracking the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-13 Andreas Wagner , Emilia K. J. Kilpua , Ranadeep Sarkar , Daniel J. Price , Anshu Kumari , Farhad Daei , Jens Pomoell , Stefaan Poedts

SDO/HMI observations reveal a class of solar flares with substantial energy and momentum impacts in the photosphere, concurrent with white-light emission and helioseismic responses, known as sunquakes. Previous radiative hydrodynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-22 Viacheslav Sadykov , John Stefan , Alexander Kosovichev , Joel Allred , Graham S Kerr , Andrey Stejko , Adam Kowalski

Flux emergence is ubiquitous in the Sun's lower atmosphere, where the emerging magnetic flux can reconnect with the pre-existing magnetic field. We investigate plasmoid formation and the resulting multi-thermal emissions during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-18 Guanchong Cheng , Lei Ni , Robert Cameron , Hardi Peter , Yajie Chen , Jun Lin

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

During its first solar encounter, the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) acquired unprecedented up-close imaging of a small Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) propagating in the forming slow solar wind. The CME originated as a cavity imaged in extreme…

Star formation feedback can drive large-scale, multi-phase galactic outflows. The dynamical and thermodynamical interaction between the hot and cooler phases is a prime focus of both observational and theoretical work. Here, we analyze…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-11 Sebastian Lopez , Laura A. Lopez , Todd A. Thompson , Adam K. Leroy , Alberto D. Bolatto

Context. Since the mechanism of energy release from solar flares is still not fully understood, the study of fine-scale features developing during flares becomes important for progressing towards a consistent picture of the essential…

Context: Solar eruptions are crucial for space weather studies. Understanding the mechanisms influencing their evolution is key to improving predictions of their geoeffectiveness. Helmet streamers (HSs) are persistent structures in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-14 M. Cécere , P. F. Wyper , G. Krause , A. Sahade , O. E. K. Rice

New high-resolution observations reveal that small-scale magnetic flux concentrations have a delicate substructure on a spatial scale of 0.1''. Its basic structure can be interpreted in terms of a magnetic flux sheet or tube that vertically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Oskar Steiner

The aim of this study is to generate maps of the hard X-ray emission produced by energetic electrons in a solar flare and compare them with observations. The ultimate goal is to test the viability of the combined MHD/test-particle approach…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-04 Mykola Gordovskyy , Philippa K. Browning , Satoshi Inoue , Eduard P. Kontar , Kanya Kusano , Grigory E. Vekstein

Propagating (intensity) disturbances (PDs) are well reported in observations of coronal loops and polar plumes in addition to recent links with co-temporal spicule activity in the solar atmosphere. However, despite being reported in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-11 Samuel Skirvin , Tanmoy Samanta , Tom Van Doorsselaere

The hydrogen Lyman lines provide important diagnostic information about the dynamics of the chromosphere, but there have been few systematic studies of their variability during flares. We investigate Doppler shifts in these lines in several…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-30 Stephen A Brown , Lyndsay Fletcher , Nicolas Labrosse