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A search for discontinuity in the sky twilight brightness at different wavelengths and different solar depressions for altitudes 0, 5, 10, 30, 50 & 70 degrees is done. It is found that the logarithmic of difference in the brightness log…

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In this study we combine the multiwavelength ultraviolet -- optical (Solar Dynamics Observatory, SDO) and radio (Nobeyama Radioheliograph, NoRH) observations to get further insight into space-frequency distribution of oscillations at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. Y. Kolobov , N. I. Kobanov , A. A. Chelpanov , A. A. Kochanov , S. A. Anfinogentov , S. A. Chupin , I. I. Myshyakov , V. E. Tomin

Quiescent solar prominences show distinct small-scale dynamics in observations. Their internal density contrasts with the surrounding corona make them susceptible to Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instabilities, leading to vertically structured…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-10 Madhurjya Changmai , Jack M. Jenkins , Rony Keppens

Coronal loops on the east limb of the Sun were observed by SUMER on SOHO for several days. Small flare-like brightenings are detected very frequently in the hot flare line Fe~{\small XIX}. We find that the relatively intense events are in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-02 T. J. Wang , D. E. Innes , S. K. Solanki , W. Curdt

We observed quiescent coronal loops using multi-wavelength observations from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) on 2016 April 13. The flows at the footpoints of such loop systems are studied…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Yamini K. Rao , Abhishek K. Srivastava , Pradeep Kayshap , Bhola N. Dwivedi

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

The perplexing mystery of what maintains the solar coronal temperature at about a million K, while the visible disc of the Sun is only at 5800 K, has been a long standing problem in solar physics. A recent study by Mondal(2020) has provided…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-09 Shabbir Bawaji , Ujjaini Alam , Surajit Mondal , Divya Oberoi

The X-ray emission from the Sun reveals a very dynamic hot atmosphere, the corona, which is characterized by a complex morphology and broad range of timescales of variability and spatial structuring. The solar magnetic fields play a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-09 Paola Testa , Fabio Reale

Using long-term X-ray observations, we present the short-term and long-term X-ray variability analysis of the ultra-fast rotating active star AB Dor. Flaring events are common in X-ray observations of AB Dor and occupy a substantial portion…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-01 Gurpreet Singh , Jeewan C. Pandey

Twisting motions of different nature are observed in several layers of the solar atmosphere. Chromospheric sunspot whorls and rotation of sunspots or even higher up in the lower corona sigmoids are examples of the large scale twisted…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Attie , D. E. Innes , H. E. Potts

The analysis of databases of photographic images of the Sun (obtained in region of soft x-ray) by means of a method of multilevel dynamical contrasting, has shown presence of skeletal structures of the Sun as outside (chromo-sphere flashes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Valentin. A. Rantsev-Kartinov

We present an extended optical spectropolarimetry of R CrB from 1998 January to 2003 September. The polarization was almost constant in the phase of maximum brightness, being consistent with past observations. We detected, however, temporal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 K. S. Kawabata , Y. Ikeda , H. Akitaya , M. Isogai , K. Matsuda , M. Matsumura , O. Nagae , M. Seki

Solar five-minute oscillations have been detected in the power spectra of two six-day time intervals from soft X-ray measurements of the Sun observed as a star using the Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrophotometer (ESP) onboard the Solar Dynamics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Leonid Didkovsky , Alexander Kosovichev , Darrell Judge , Seth Wieman , Tom Woods

Magnetic flux ropes (FRs) are twisted structures appearing on the sun, predominantly in the magnetically concentrated regions. These structures appear as coronal features known as filaments or prominences in H$\alpha$ observations, and as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-04 P. Vemareddy

Events in the solar corona are often widely separated in their timescales, which can allow them to be identified when they would otherwise be confused with emission from other sources in the corona. Methods for cleanly separating such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-01 Joseph Plowman

Surface solar irradiance varies on scales as small as seconds or meters due to scattering and absorption by the atmosphere. Clouds are the main driver of this variability, but moisture structures in the atmospheric boundary layer and…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-04-08 Wouter Mol , Bert Heusinkveld , Mary Rose Mangan , Oscar Hartogensis , Menno Veerman , Chiel van Heerwaarden

The Sun provides an excellent natural laboratory for nonlinear phenomena. We use motions of magnetic bright points on the solar surface, at the smallest scales yet observed, to study the small scale dynamics of the photospheric plasma. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 J. K. Lawrence , A. C. Cadavid , A. Ruzmaikin , T. E. Berger

We present here one of the first high resolution spectroscopic observations of coronal rain, performed with the CRISP instrument at the Swedish Solar Telescope. This work constitutes the first attempt to assess the importance of coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Patrick Antolin , Luc Rouppe van der Voort

We present an overview of fine-scale features in the Sun's atmosphere, with a focus on spicules and jets. We consider older and newer observations and theories for chromospheric spicules and coronal jets. We also consider the connection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-04 Alphonse C. Sterling

We analyze several unusual filamentary structures, which appeared in the umbra of one of the sunspots in AR 11302. They do not resemble typical light bridges, neither in morphology, nor in evolution. We analyze data from SDO/HMI to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Lucia Kleint , Alberto Sainz Dalda
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