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most citedThe Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package

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On mathematical theory of selection: Continuous time population dynamics

Georgy P. Karev

Mathematical theory of selection is developed within the frameworks of general models of inhomogeneous populations with continuous time. Methods that allow us to study the distribu…

astro-ph2008★ 238 cited

Driving major solar flares and eruptions: a review

C. J. Schrijver

This review focuses on the processes that energize and trigger major solar flares and flux-rope destabilizations. Numerical modeling of specific solar regions is hampered by uncert…

astro-ph2008★ 177 cited

Solar surface emerging flux regions: a comparative study of radiative MHD modeling and Hinode SOT observations

M. C. M. Cheung, M. Schuessler, T. D. Tarbell +1

We present results from numerical modeling of emerging flux regions on the solar surface. The modeling was carried out by means of 3D radiative MHD simulations of the rise of buoya…

astro-ph2008★ 436 cited

Chromospheric Anemone Jets as Evidence of Ubiquitous Reconnection

Kazunari Shibata, Tahei Nakamura, Takuma Matsumoto +19

The heating of the solar chromosphere and corona is a long-standing puzzle in solar physics. Hinode observations show the ubiquitous presence of chromospheric anemone jets outside…

astro-ph2008★ 34 cited

A Coherence-Based Approach for Tracking Waves in the Solar Corona

Scott W. McIntosh, Bart De Pontieu, Steven Tomczyk

We consider the problem of automatically (and robustly) isolating and extracting information about waves and oscillations observed in EUV image sequences of the solar corona with a…

astro-ph2008★ 224 cited

Magnetic Landscape of Sun's Polar Region

S. Tsuneta, K. Ichimoto, Y. Katsukawa +11

We present the magnetic landscape of the polar region of the Sun that is unprecedented in terms of high spatial resolution, large field of view, and polarimetric precision. These o…

astro-ph2008★ 18 cited

Disintegration of Magnetic Flux in Decaying Sunspots as Observed with the Hinode SOT

M. Kubo, B. W. Lites, K. Ichimoto +8

Continuous observations of sunspot penumbrae with the Solar Optical Telescope aboard \textit{Hinode} clearly show that the outer boundary of the penumbra fluctuates around its aver…

astro-ph2008★ 88 cited

Hinode Observations of Magnetic Elements in Internetwork Areas

A. G. de Wijn, B. W. Lites, T. E. Berger +3

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 ma…

astro-ph2008★ 77 cited

Energy flux of Alfven waves in weakly ionized plasma

J. Vranjes, S. Poedts, B. P. Pandey +1

The overshooting convective motions in the solar photosphere are frequently proposed as the source for the excitation of Alfvén waves. However, the photosphere is a) very weakly io…

astro-ph2008★ 33 cited

Characteristics of Anemone Active Regions Appearing in Coronal Holes Observed with {\it Yohkoh} Soft X-ray Telescope

Ayumi Asai, Kazunari Shibata, Hirohisa Hara +1

Coronal structure of active regions appearing in coronal holes is studied by using the data obtained with the Soft X-Ray Telescope (SXT) aboard {\it Yohkoh} from 1991 November to 1…

astro-ph2008★ 164 cited

STEREO/SECCHI Stereoscopic Observations Constraining the Initiation of Polar Coronal Jets

S. Patsourakos, E. Pariat, A. Vourlidas +2

We report on the first stereoscopic observations of polar coronal jets made by the EUVI/SECCHI imagers on board the twin STEREO spacecraft. The significantly separated viewpoints (…

astro-ph2008★ 10 cited

Numerical simulations of rotating axisymmetric sunspots

G. J. J. Botha, F. H. Busse, N. E. Hurlburt +1

A numerical model of axisymmetric convection in the presence of a vertical magnetic flux bundle and rotation about the axis is presented. The model contains a compressible plasma d…

astro-ph2008★ 123 cited

Search for high velocities in the disk counterpart of type II spicules

Ø. Langangen, B. De Pontieu, M. Carlsson +3

Recently, De Pontieu et al. (2007b) discovered a class of spicules that evolves more rapidly than previously known spicules, with rapid apparent motions of 50--150 km s, t…

astro-ph2008★ 53 cited

Frequent Occurrence of High-speed Local Mass Downflows on the Solar Surface

T. Shimizu, B. W. Lites, Y. Katsukawa +7

We report on new spectro-polarimetric measurements with simultaneous filter imaging observation, revealing the frequent appearance of polarization signals indicating high-speed, pr…

astro-ph2008★ 63 cited

Can We Improve the Preprocessing of Photospheric Vector Magnetograms by the Inclusion of Chromospheric Observations?

T. Wiegelmann, J. K. Thalmann, C. J. Schrijver +2

The solar magnetic field is key to understanding the physical processes in the solar atmosphere. Nonlinear force-free codes have been shown to be useful in extrapolating the corona…

astro-ph2008★ 103 cited

Transient horizontal magnetic fields in solar plage regions

R. Ishikawa, S. Tsuneta, K. Ichimoto +9

We report the discovery of isolated, small-scale emerging magnetic fields in a plage region with the Solar Optical Telescope aboard Hinode. Spectro-polarimetric observations were c…

astro-ph2008★ 77 cited

First Stereoscopic Coronal Loop Reconstructions from Stereo Secchi Images

L. Feng, B. Inhester, S. K. Solanki +4

We present the first reconstruction of the three-dimensional shape of magnetic loops in an active region from two different vantage points based on simultaneously recorded images.…

astro-ph2008★ 171 cited

Emergence of a Helical Flux Rope Under an Active Region Prominence

Takenori J. Okamoto, Saku Tsuneta, Bruce W. Lites +12

Continuous observations were obtained of active region 10953 with the Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) on board the \emph{Hinode} satellite during 2007 April 28 to May 9. A prominence…

astro-ph2008★ 41 cited

Reappraising Transition Region Line Widths in light of Recent Alfvén Wave Discoveries

Scott W. McIntosh, Bart De Pontieu, Theodore D. Tarbell

We provide a new interpretation of ultraviolet transition region emission line widths observed by the SUMER instrument on the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). This invest…