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Context: Supergranulation is a pattern of the velocity field at the surface of the Sun, which has been known about for more than fifty years, however, no satisfactory explanation of its origin has been proposed. Aims: New observational…

Observations of quiet Sun from the Solar Optical Telescope/Spectro-Polarimeter (SOT/SP) aboard the Hinode spacecraft would reveal the magnetic characters of the solar photosphere. By making use of the deep mode observations of three quiet…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Chunlan Jin , Jingxiu Wang , Meng Zhao

Bipolar Light Bridges (BLBs) are bright regions located between sunspot umbrae of opposite magnetic polarity. They are typically characterized by strong magnetic fields and intense flows, which are believed to be closely associated with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-10 Fangfang Qiao , Hao Li , Jiasheng Wang , Yadan Duan , Zheng Sun , Leping Li

Small-scale magnetic fields in the solar photosphere can be identified in high-resolution magnetograms or in the G-band as magnetic bright points (MBPs). Rapid motions of these fields can cause magneto-hydrodynamical waves and can also lead…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 D. Utz , A. Hanslmeier , R. Muller , A. Veronig , J. Rybák , H. Muthsam

Observations with the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) have revealed numerous sub-arcsecond bright dots in the transition region above sunspots. These bright dots are seen in the 1400\AA{} and 1330\AA{} slit-jaw images. They are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-21 H. Tian , L. Kleint , H. Peter , M. Weber , P. Testa , E. DeLuca , L. Golub , N. Schanche

The umbral oscillations of velocity are commonly observed in the chromosphere of a sunspot. Their sources are considered to be either the external p-mode driving or the internal excitation by magnetoconvection. Even though the possibility…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Kyuhyoun Cho , Jongchul Chae , Eun-kyung Lim , Heesu Yang

We present the first quiet Sun spectropolarimetric observations obtained with the Visible SpectroPolarimeter (ViSP) at the $4-$m Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST). We recorded observations in a wavelength range that includes the…

Our observations of the quiet Sun with the NST have yielded unanticipated results on smal-scale solar dynamic. Althought small-scale solar dynamic have been well-studied, the NST is enabling us to probe finer scale dynamic exploiting higher…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-23 Aleksandra Andic

The large-scale magnetic pattern of the quiet sun is dominated by the magnetic network. This network, created by photospheric magnetic fields swept into convective downflows, delineates the boundaries of large scale cells of overturning…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-05 Francesco Berrilli , Stefano Scardigli , Dario Del Moro

Coronal bright points (BPs) are small-scale luminous features seen in the solar corona. Quasi-periodic brightenings are frequently observed in the BPs and are generally linked with underneath magnetic flux changes. We study the dynamics of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-05 Tanmoy Samanta , Dipankar Banerjee , Hui Tian

Small-scale internetwork magnetic fields are important ingredients of the quiet Sun. In this paper we analyze how they appear and disappear on the solar surface. Using high resolution Hinode magnetograms, we follow the evolution of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-08 Milan Gošić , Luis R. Bellot Rubio , Jose Carlos Del Toro Iniesta , David Orozco Suárez , Yukio Katsukawa

Magnetic reconnection in the deep solar atmosphere can give rise to enhanced emission in the Balmer hydrogen lines, a phenomenon referred to as Ellerman bombs. Recent high quality H$\beta$ observations indicate that Ellerman bombs are more…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-10 Jayant Joshi , Luc H. M. Rouppe van der Voort

Taken at a high spatial resolution of 0.1 arcsec, Bright Points (BPs) are found to coexist with faculae in images and the latter are often resolved as adjacent striations. Understanding the properties of these different features is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-21 P. Kobel , J. Hirzberger , S. K. Solanki

Internetwork (IN) magnetic fields are highly dynamic, short-lived magnetic structures that populate the interior of supergranular cells. Since they emerge all over the Sun, these small-scale fields bring a substantial amount of flux, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 Milan Gošić , Bart De Pontieu , Luis R. Bellot Rubio , Alberto Sainz Dalda , Sara Esteban Pozuelo

We present the initial results of an observational study into the variation of the dominant length-scale of quiet solar emission: supergranulation. This length-scale reflects the radiative energy in the plasma of the upper solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Scott W. McIntosh , Robert J. Leamon , Rachel A. Hock , Mark P. Rast , Roger K. Ulrich

The sub-arcsec bright points (BP) associated with the small scale magnetic fields in the lower solar atmosphere are advected by the evolution of the photospheric granules. We measure various quantities related to the horizontal motions of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-28 LP. Chitta , A. A. van Ballegooijen , L. Rouppe van der Voort , E. E. DeLuca , R. Kariyappa

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

We present new results from first observations of the quiet solar photosphere performed through the Interferometric BIdimensional Spectrometer (IBIS) in spectropolarimetric mode. IBIS allowed us to measure the four Stokes parameters in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 B. Viticchié , D. Del Moro , S. Criscuoli , F. Berrilli

Recent analysis of high-cadence white-light images taken by the Solar-Terrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) near solar maximum has revealed that outflowing density structures are released in an ubiquitous manner in the solar wind. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 Léa Griton , Rui F. Pinto , Nicolas Poirier , Athanasios Kouloumvakos , Michaël Lavarra , Alexis P. Rouillard

Context. Magnetic bright points (MBPs) are dynamic, small-scale magnetic elements often found with field strengths of the order of a kilogauss within intergranular lanes in the photosphere. Aims. Here we study the evolution of various…