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We report the detection of oscillatory phenomena associated with a large bright-point group that is 430,000 square kilometers in area and located near the solar disk center. Wavelet analysis reveals full-width half-maximum oscillations with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. B. Jess , M. Mathioudakis , R. Erdelyi , P. J. Crockett , F. P. Keenan , D. J. Christian

Many solar coronal jets result from erupting miniature-filament ("minifilament") magnetic flux ropes that reconnect with encountered surrounding far-reaching field. Many of those minifilament flux ropes are apparently built and triggered to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-09 Alphonse C. Sterling , Ronald L. Moore , Navdeep K. Panesar , Tanmoy Samanta

Rapid Blue- and Red-shifted Excursions (RBEs and RREs) are likely to be the on-disk counterparts of Type II spicules. Recently, heating signatures from RBEs/RREs have been detected in IRIS slit-jaw images dominated by transition-region…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 V. M. J. Henriques , D. Kuridze , M. Mathioudakis , F. P. Keenan

Macrospicules are typically described as solar jets that are larger and longer-lived than spicules, and visible mostly in transition-region spectral lines. They show a broad variation in properties, which pose substantial difficulties for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-10 Ivan P. Loboda , Sergej A. Bogachev

Magnetic Bright Points (MBPs) are among the smallest observable objects on the solar photosphere. A combination of G-band observations and numerical simulations is used to determine their area distribution. An automatic detection algorithm,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 P. J. Crockett , M. Mathioudakis , D. B. Jess , S. Shelyag , F. P. Keenan , D. J. Christian

How the solar atmosphere is heated from a temperature of about $5,000-6,000$\,K in the lower atmosphere to about $1-2$\,MK in the corona has challenged the astrophysical community for about 80 years. The same puzzle exists for the stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Lei Ni , Jun Lin , Tanmoy Samanta , Guanchong Cheng , Yifu Wang , Robert Erdelyi

We present semi-analytical models and simplified $N$-body simulations with $10^4$ and $10^5$ particles aimed at probing the role of dynamical friction (DF) in determining the radial distribution of Blue Straggler Stars (BSSs) in globular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-01-16 P. Miocchi , M. Pasquato , B. Lanzoni , F. R. Ferraro , E. Dalessandro , E. Vesperini , E. Alessandrini , Y. W. Lee

Context. We compare solar differential rotation of subphotospheric layers derived from local helioseismology analysis of GONG++ dopplergrams and the one derived from tracing small bright coronal structures (SBCS) using EIT/SOHO images for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Amel Zaatri , Hubertus Woehl , Markus Roth , Thierry Corbard , Roman Brajsa

Height series of Doppler observation at the solar limb (covering 3800 - 8700 km distance above the photosphere) in $H_{\alpha}$ spectral line obtained by big coronagraph of Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory \citep{khu} show the periodic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Kukhianidze , T. V. Zaqarashvili , E. Khutsishvili

Coronal bright points (CBP) are ubiquitous small brightenings in the solar corona associated with small magnetic bipoles. We derive the solar differential rotation profile by tracing the motions of CBPs detected by the Atmospheric Imaging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-25 Davor Sudar , Ivica Skokić , Roman Brajša , Steven H. Saar

The expansion with height of the solar photospheric magnetic field and the plasma flows is investigated for three isolated bright points (BPs). The BPs were observed simultaneously with 3 instruments at the GREGOR telescope: (1) filtergrams…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Christoph Kuckein

Particle drifts perpendicular to the background magnetic field have been proposed by some authors as an explanation for the very efficient perpendicular transport of solar energetic particles (SEPs). This process, however, competes with…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-12-07 J. P. van den Berg , N. E. Engelbrecht , N. Wijsen , R. D. Strauss

We aim to improve our picture of the low chromosphere in the quiet-Sun internetwork by investigating the intensity, horizontal velocity, size and lifetime variations of small bright points (BPs; diameter smaller than 0.3 arcsec) observed in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-29 S. Jafarzadeh , S. K. Solanki , A. Feller , A. Lagg , A. Pietarila , S. Danilovic , T. L. Riethmüller , V. Martínez Pillet

The fourth orbit of Parker Solar Probe (PSP) reached heliocentric distances down to 27.9 Rs, allowing solar wind turbulence and acceleration mechanisms to be studied in situ closer to the Sun than previously possible. The turbulence…

The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) of the NASA small explorer mission provides significantly more complete and higher resolution spectral coverage of the dynamical conditions inside the chromosphere and transition region (TR)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 E. Tavabi , S. Koutchmy , L. Golub

Various parameters describing the dynamics of G-band bright points (GBPs) were derived from G-band images, acquired by the Dutch Open Telescope (DOT), of a quiet region close to the disk center. Our study is based on four commonly used…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-20 M. Bodnárová , D. Utz , J. Rybák

Our aim is to determine the plasma properties of a coronal bright point and compare its magnetic topology extrapolated from magnetogram data with its appearance in X-ray images. We analyse spectroscopic data obtained with EIS/Hinode, Ca II…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-07 D. Pérez-Suárez , R. C. Maclean , J. G. Doyle , M. S. Madjarska

Solar radio bursts exhibit complex fine structures that reveal intricate coronal plasma dynamics. Here, we report detection of spike-like repeating burst pairs, characterized by two short-lived (0.1-2 s), narrowband components separated by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-28 Suli Ma , Eduard P. Kontar , Daniel L. Clarkson , Huadong Chen , Yihua Yan

Studies of spicules and similar solar jets reveal a strong correlation between some of the kinematic variables, particularly between the initial velocity V, and the subsequent deceleration, a. It has been proposed that there is a linear…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-04 Leonard A Freeman

This study analyzed the Doppler shift in the solar spectrum using the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). Two types of oscillations were investigated: long period damp and short period damp. The researchers observed periodic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-25 E. Tavabi , R. Sadeghi