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We use high-resolution imaging spectroscopy with the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST) to study the transient brightenings of the wings of the Balmer Halpha line in emerging active regions that are called Ellerman bombs. Simultaneous…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Gregal J. M. Vissers , Luc H. M. Rouppe van der Voort , Robert J. Rutten

Ellerman bombs (EBs) are a kind of solar activities that is suggested to occur in the lower atmosphere. Recent observations using the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) show connections of EBs and IRIS bombs (IBs), implying that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-03 Jie Hong , M. D. Ding , Wenda Cao

Ellerman bombs are transient brightenings of the wings of the Balmer lines that uniquely mark reconnection in the solar photosphere. They are also bright in strong Ca II and ultraviolet lines and in ultraviolet continua, but they are not…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-01 R. J. Rutten

Ellerman bombs are transient brightenings of the extended wings of the solar Balmer lines in emerging active regions. We describe their properties in the ultraviolet lines sampled by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-08 Gregal J. M. Vissers , Luc H. M. Rouppe van der Voort , Robert J. Rutten , Mats Carlsson , Bart De Pontieu

Ellerman bombs (EBs) are short-lived and compact structures that are observed well in the wings of the hydrogen H-alpha line. EBs are also observed in the chromospheric CaII lines and in UV continua. H-alpha line profiles of EBs show a deep…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Arkadiusz Berlicki , Petr Heinzel

High-resolution imaging-spectroscopy movies of solar active region NOAA 10998 obtained with the CRisp Imaging SpectroPolarimeter (CRISP) at the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope show very bright, rapidly flickering, flame-like features that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Hiroko Watanabe , Gregal Vissers , Reizaburo Kitai , Luc Rouppe van der Voort , Robert J. Rutten

We study the H$\alpha$ and Ca II 8542 \r{A} line spectra of four typical Ellerman bombs (EBs) in active region NOAA 11765 on 2013 June 6, observed with the Fast Imaging Solar Spectrograph installed at the 1.6 meter New Solar Telescope at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-12 Jie Hong , M. D. Ding , Ying Li , Cheng Fang , Wenda Cao

Recent observations by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) have revealed pockets of hot gas ($\sim$2--8$\times$10$^{4}$ K) potentially resulting from magnetic reconnection in the partially ionized lower solar atmosphere (IRIS…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-21 Hui Tian , Zhi Xu , Jiansen He , Chad Madsen

Ellerman bombs (EBs) are tiny brightenings often observed near sunspots. The most impressive characteristic of the EB spectra is the two emission bumps in both wings of the H$\alpha$ and \ion{Ca}{II} 8542 {\AA} lines. High-resolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Z. Li , C. Fang , Y. Guo , P. F. Chen , Z. Xu , W. Cao

Context. Ellerman bombs (EBs) are short-lived emission features, characterized by extended wing emission in hydrogen Balmer lines. Until now, no distinct signature of EBs has been found in the He I 10830 {\AA} line, and conclusive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 Tine Libbrecht , Jayant Joshi , Jaime de la Cruz Rodríguez , Jorrit Leenaarts , Andrés Asensio Ramos

Ellerman bombs are transient brightenings of the wings of the solar Balmer lines that mark reconnection in the photosphere. Ellerman noted in 1917 that he did not observe such brightenings in the Na I D and Mg I b lines. This non-visibility…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-20 R. J. Rutten , L. H. M. Rouppe van der Voort , G. J. M. Vissers

Ellerman bombs (EBs) are small and short-lived magnetic reconnection events in the lower solar atmosphere, most commonly reported in the line wings of the H$\alpha$ line. These events are thought to play a role in heating the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-12 A. Faryad , A. G. M. Pietrow , M. Verma , C. Denker

Context. Ellerman bombs (EBs) are observational signatures of small-scale magnetic reconnection, key to understanding the lower solar atmosphere. While their role in active regions has been widely studied using the H$\alpha$ line,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 I. J. Soler Poquet , C. J. Díaz Baso , A. Sainz Dalda , L. H. M. Rouppe van der Voort , D. Nóbrega-Siverio , R. Joshi

Ellerman bombs and UV bursts are transient brightenings that are ubiquitously observed in the lower atmospheres of active and emerging flux regions. Here we present inversion results of SST/CRISP and CHROMIS, as well as IRIS data of such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 G. J. M. Vissers , J. de la Cruz Rodriguez , T. Libbrecht , L. H. M. Rouppe van der Voort , G. B. Scharmer , M. Carlsson

Ellerman bombs are regions with enhanced Balmer line wing emission and mark magnetic reconnection in the deep solar atmosphere in active regions and quiet Sun. They are often found in regions where opposite magnetic polarities are in close…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 L. H. M. Rouppe van der Voort , J. Joshi , V. M. J. Henriques , S. Bose

Recent observations from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) appear to show impulsive brightenings in high temperature lines, which when combined with simultaneous ground based observations in H$\alpha$, appear co-spatial to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 A. Reid , M. Mathioudakis , A. Kowalski , J. G. Doyle , J. C. Allred

Ellerman bombs (EBs) are brightenings in the H$\alpha$ line wings that are believed to be caused by magnetic reconnection in the lower atmosphere. To study the response and evolution of the chromospheric line profiles, we perform radiative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Jie Hong , Mats Carlsson , M. D. Ding

The presence of photospheric magnetic reconnection has long been thought to give rise to short and impulsive events, such as Ellerman bombs (EBs) and Type II spicules. In this article, we combine high-resolution, high-cadence observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 C. J. Nelson , S. Shelyag , M. Mathioudakis , J. G. Doyle , M. S. Madjarska , H. Uitenbroek , R. Erdélyi

The properties of Ellerman bombs (EBs), small-scale brightenings in the H-alpha line wings, have proved difficult to establish due to their size being close to the spatial resolution of even the most advanced telescopes. Here, we aim to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-09 C. J. Nelson , J. G. Doyle , R. Erdelyi , Z. Huang , M. Madjarska , M. Mathioudakis , S. Mumford , K. Reardon

We characterize the K I D1 & D2 lines in order to determine whether they could complement the 850 nm window, containing the Ca II infrared triplet lines and several Zeeman sensitive photospheric lines, that was studied previously. We…

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