Heating of the solar chromosphere and corona by Alfvén wave turbulence

AA Van Ballegooijen, M Asgari-Targhi… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT A three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model for the propagation
and dissipation of Alfvén waves in a coronal loop is developed. The model includes the …

Stellar surface information from the Ca ii H&K lines – I. Intensity profiles of the solar activity components

M Cretignier, AGM Pietrow… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The detection of Earth-like planets with the radial-velocity (RV) method is currently limited by
the presence of stellar activity signatures. On rotational time-scales, spots and plages (or …

The visible spectro-polarimeter of the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope

AG De Wijn, R Casini, A Carlile, AR Lecinski, S Sewell… - Solar Physics, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) Visible Spectro-Polarimeter (ViSP)
is a traditional slit-scanning spectrograph with the ability to observe solar regions up to a …

The formation of IRIS diagnostics. III. Near-ultraviolet spectra and images

TMD Pereira, J Leenaarts, B De Pontieu… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
The Mg ii h&k lines are the prime chromospheric diagnostics of NASA's Interface Region
Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). In the previous papers of this series, we used a realistic three …

Dynamics of the solar magnetic network. II. Heating the magnetized chromosphere

SS Hasan, AA Van Ballegooijen - The Astrophysical Journal, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
We consider recent observations of the chromospheric network and argue that the bright
network grains observed in the Ca II H and K lines are heated by an as-yet-unidentified …

Three-dimensional temperature mapping of solar photospheric fine structure using Ca ii H filtergrams

VMJ Henriques - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2012 - aanda.org
Context. The wings of the Ca ii H and K lines provide excellent photospheric temperature
diagnostics. At the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST), the blue wing of Ca ii H is scanned …

Hinode observations of magnetic elements in internetwork areas

AG De Wijn, BW Lites, TE Berger… - The Astrophysical …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
We use sequences of images and magnetograms from Hinode to study magnetic elements
in internetwork parts of the quiet solar photosphere. Visual inspection shows the existence of …

DOT tomography of the solar atmosphere-VI. Magnetic elements as bright points in the blue wing of H

J Leenaarts, RJ Rutten, P Sütterlin, M Carlsson… - Astronomy & …, 2006 - aanda.org
High-resolution solar images taken in the blue wing of the Balmer H α line with the Dutch
Open Telescope show intergranular magnetic elements as strikingly bright features, similar …

Wave propagation and energy transport in the magnetic network of the Sun

G Vigeesh, SS Hasan, O Steiner - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2009 - aanda.org
Aims. We investigate wave propagation and energy transport in magnetic elements, which
are representatives of small scale magnetic flux concentrations in the magnetic network on …

DOT tomography of the solar atmosphere-III. Observations and simulations of reversed granulation

J Leenaarts, S Wedemeyer-Böhm - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2005 - aanda.org
We compare high-quality image sequences from the Dutch Open Telescope (DOT) with
synthetic image sequences obtained from 3D radiation-hydrodynamics simulations of the …