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 …

Oscillations and waves in sunspots

E Khomenko, M Collados - Living Reviews in Solar Physics, 2015 - Springer
A magnetic field modifies the properties of waves in a complex way. Significant advances
have been made recently in our understanding of the physics of sunspot waves with the help …

Alfvén wave dissipation in the solar chromosphere

SDT Grant, DB Jess, TV Zaqarashvili, C Beck… - Nature Physics, 2018 - nature.com
Magnetohydrodynamic Alfvén waves have been a focus of laboratory plasma physics and
astrophysics for over half a century. Their unique nature makes them ideal energy …

Frequently occurring reconnection jets from sunspot light bridges

H Tian, V Yurchyshyn, H Peter, SK Solanki… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Solid evidence of magnetic reconnection is rarely reported within sunspots, the darkest
regions with the strongest magnetic fields and lowest temperatures in the solar atmosphere …

A self-consistent model of the coronal heating and solar wind acceleration including compressible and incompressible heating processes

M Shoda, T Yokoyama, TK Suzuki - The Astrophysical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We propose a novel one-dimensional model that includes both shock and turbulence
heating and qualify how these processes contribute to heating the corona and driving the …

Detection of decayless oscillations in solar transition region loops

Y Gao, Z Hou, T Van Doorsselaere, M Guo - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. Decayless kink oscillations have been frequently observed in coronal loops,
serving as a valuable diagnostic tool for the coronal magnetic field. Such oscillations have …

A New View of the Solar Interface Region from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)

B De Pontieu, V Polito, V Hansteen, P Testa… - Solar Physics, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) has been obtaining near-and far-
ultraviolet images and spectra of the solar atmosphere since July 2013. IRIS is the highest …

Coronal condensation as the source of transition-region supersonic downflows above a sunspot

H Chen, H Tian, L Li, H Peter, LP Chitta… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. Plasma loops or plumes rooted in sunspot umbrae often harbor downflows with
speeds of 100 km s− 1. These downflows are supersonic at transition region temperatures …

Imaging and spectroscopic diagnostics on the formation of two magnetic flux ropes revealed by SDO/AIA and IRIS

X Cheng, MD Ding, C Fang - The Astrophysical Journal, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Helical magnetic flux rope (MFR) is a fundamental structure of coronal mass ejections
(CMEs) and has been discovered recently to exist as a sigmoidal channel structure prior to …

Probing the solar transition region: current status and future perspectives

H Tian - Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The solar transition region (TR) is the temperature regime from roughly 0.02 MK to 0.8 MK in
the solar atmosphere. It is the transition layer from the collisional and partially ionized …