Waves in the lower solar atmosphere: the dawn of next-generation solar telescopes

DB Jess, S Jafarzadeh, PH Keys, M Stangalini… - Living Reviews in Solar …, 2023 - Springer
Waves and oscillations have been observed in the Sun's atmosphere for over half a century.
While such phenomena have readily been observed across the entire electromagnetic …

Evolution of active regions

L van Driel-Gesztelyi, LM Green - Living Reviews in Solar Physics, 2015 - Springer
The evolution of active regions (AR) from their emergence through their long decay process
is of fundamental importance in solar physics. Since large-scale flux is generated by the …

Small-scale solar magnetic fields: an overview

SK Solanki - Space Science Reviews, 1993 - Springer
An overview is given of the observational and the theoretical methods used to investigate
solar magnetic fields. It includes an introduction to the Stokes parameters, their radiative …

The magnetic field in the solar atmosphere

T Wiegelmann, JK Thalmann, SK Solanki - The Astronomy and …, 2014 - Springer
This publication provides an overview of magnetic fields in the solar atmosphere with the
focus lying on the corona. The solar magnetic field couples the solar interior with the visible …

Three-dimensional modeling of the Ca II H and K lines in the solar atmosphere

JP Bjørgen, AV Sukhorukov, J Leenaarts… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
Context. CHROMIS, a new imaging spectrometer at the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope
(SST), can observe the chromosphere in the H and K lines of Ca II at high spatial and …

What do IRIS observations of Mg II k tell us about the solar plage chromosphere?

M Carlsson, J Leenaarts… - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We analyze observations from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph of the Mg ii k line,
the Mg ii UV subordinate lines, and the O i 135.6$\mathrm {nm} $ line to better understand …

Radiative diagnostics in the solar photosphere and chromosphere

J de la Cruz Rodríguez, M van Noort - Space Science Reviews, 2017 - Springer
Magnetic fields on the surface of the Sun and stars in general imprint or modify the
polarization state of the electromagnetic radiation that is leaving from the star. The inference …

Millimeter observations and chromospheric dynamics

M Loukitcheva, SK Solanki, M Carlsson… - Astronomy & …, 2004 - aanda.org
The intensities of submillimeter and millimeter continua, which are formed in LTE and
depend linearly on temperature, may be able to provide a test of models of the Solar …

Stratification of canopy magnetic fields in a plage region-Constraints from a spatially-regularized weak-field approximation method

R Morosin, J de la Cruz Rodríguez… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. The role of magnetic fields in the chromospheric heating problem remains greatly
unconstrained. Most theoretical predictions from numerical models rely on a magnetic …

New light on the heart of darkness of the solar chromosphere

SK Solanki, W Livingston, T Ayres - Science, 1994 - science.org
Solar carbon monoxide spectra indicate the existence of a cool (less than 4000 kelvin)
component to the solar chromosphere coexisting with the hot, bright gas at 6000 to 7000 …