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Power spectrum of turbulent convection in the solar photosphere
L. Yelles Chaouche, R. H. Cameron, S. K. Solanki +15
The solar photosphere provides us with a laboratory for understanding turbulence in a layer where the fundamental processes of transport vary rapidly and a strongly superadiabatic…
Maximum Entropy Limit of Small-scale Magnetic Field Fluctuations in the Quiet Sun
A. Y. Gorobets, S. V. Berdyugina, T. L. Riethmüller +12
The observed magnetic field on the solar surface is characterized by a very complex spatial and temporal behavior. Although feature-tracking algorithms have allowed us to deepen ou…
Magneto-static modelling from SUNRISE/IMaX: Application to an active region observed with SUNRISE II
T. Wiegelmann, T. Neukirch, D. H. Nickeler +13
Magneto-static models may overcome some of the issues facing force-free magnetic field extrapolations. So far they have seen limited use and have faced problems when applied to qui…
Oscillations on width and intensity of slender Ca II H fibrils from Sunrise/SuFI
R. Gafeira, S. Jafarzadeh, S. K. Solanki +12
We report the detection of oscillations in slender Ca II H fibrils (SCFs) from high-resolution observations acquired with the Sunrise balloon-borne solar observatory. The SCFs show…
The second flight of the SUNRISE balloon-borne solar observatory: overview of instrument updates, the flight, the data and first results
S. K. Solanki, T. L. Riethmüller, P. Barthol +32
The SUNRISE balloon-borne solar observatory, consisting of a 1~m aperture telescope that provided a stabilized image to a UV filter imager and an imaging vector polarimeter, carrie…
Morphological properties of slender Ca II H fibrils observed by SUNRISE II
R. Gafeira, A. Lagg, Sami K Solanki +12
We use seeing-free high spatial resolution Ca II H data obtained by the SUNRISE observatory to determine properties of slender fibrils in the lower solar chromosphere. In this work…
Spectropolarimetric evidence for a siphon flow along an emerging magnetic flux tube
Iker S. Requerey, B. Ruiz Cobo, J. C. Del Toro Iniesta +12
We study the dynamics and topology of an emerging magnetic flux concentration using high spatial resolution spectropolarimetric data acquired with the Imaging Magnetograph eXperime…
A new MHD-assisted Stokes inversion technique
T. L. Riethmüller, S. K. Solanki, P. Barthol +10
We present a new method of Stokes inversion of spectropolarimetric data and evaluate it by taking the example of a SUNRISE/IMaX observation. An archive of synthetic Stokes profiles…
A Tale of Two Emergences: Sunrise II Observations of Emergence Sites in a Solar Active Region
Rebecca Centeno, Julian Blanco Rodriguez, Jose Carlos Del Toro Iniesta +11
In June 2013, the two scientific instruments onboard the second Sunrise mission witnessed, in detail, a small-scale magnetic flux emergence event as part of the birth of an active…
Kinematics of Magnetic Bright Features in the Solar Photosphere
Shahin Jafarzadeh, S. K. Solanki, R. H. Cameron +12
Convective flows are known as the prime means of transporting magnetic fields on the solar surface. Thus, small magnetic structures are good tracers of the turbulent flows. We stud…
Solar Coronal Loops Associated with Small-scale Mixed Polarity Surface Magnetic Fields
L. P. Chitta, H. Peter, S. K. Solanki +12
How and where are coronal loops rooted in the solar lower atmosphere? The details of the magnetic environment and its evolution at the footpoints of coronal loops are crucial to un…
Transverse Oscillations in Slender Ca II H Fibrils Observed with Sunrise/SuFI
Shahin Jafarzadeh, S. K. Solanki, R. Gafeira +11
We present observations of transverse oscillations in slender Ca II H fibrils (SCFs) in the lower solar chromosphere. We use a 1 hr long time series of high- (spatial and temporal-…
Slender Ca II H Fibrils Mapping Magnetic Fields in the Low Solar Chromosphere
Shahin Jafarzadeh, R. J. Rutten, S. K. Solanki +14
A dense forest of slender bright fibrils near a small solar active region is seen in high-quality narrowband Ca II H images from the SuFI instrument onboard the Sunrise balloon-bor…
Moving Magnetic Features around a Pore
A. J. Kaithakkal, T. L. Riethmüller, S. K. Solanki +12
Spectropolarimetric observations from Sunrise II/IMaX obtained in June 2013 are used for a statistical analysis to determine the physical properties of moving magnetic features (MM…
Photospheric response to EB-like event
S. Danilovic, S. K. Solanki, P. Barthol +10
Ellerman Bombs are signatures of magnetic reconnection, which is an important physical process in the solar atmosphere. How and where they occur is a subject of debate. In this pap…
First high-resolution images of the Sun in the 2796 Å Mg II k line
T. L. Riethmüller, S. K. Solanki, J. Hirzberger +8
We present the first high-resolution solar images in the Mg II k 2796 Å line. The images, taken through a 4.8 Å broad interference filter, were obtained during the second science f…
The frontier between Small-scale bipoles and Ephemeral Regions in the solar photosphere: Emergence and Decay of an Intermediate-scale bipole observed with IMaX/SUNRISE
S. L. Guglielmino, V. Martínez Pillet, J. A. Bonet +7
We report on the photospheric evolution of an intermediate-scale (~4 Mm footpoint separation) magnetic bipole, from emergence to decay, observed in the quiet Sun at high spatial 0"…
Magnetic field emergence in mesogranular-sized exploding granules observed with SUNRISE/IMaX data
J. Palacios, J. Blanco Rodríguez, S. Vargas Domínguez +11
We report on magnetic field emergences covering significant areas of exploding granules. The balloon-borne mission SUNRISE provided high spatial and temporal resolution images of t…
Mesogranulation and the solar surface magnetic field distribution
L. Yelles Chaouche, F. Moreno-Insertis, V. Martínez Pillet +9
The relation of the solar surface magnetic field with mesogranular cells is studied using high spatial (~ 100 km) and temporal (~ 30 sec) resolution data obtained with the IMaX ins…
Detection of large acoustic energy flux in the solar atmosphere
N. Bello González, M. Franz, V. Martínez Pillet +9
We study the energy flux carried by acoustic waves excited by convective motions at sub-photospheric levels. The analysis of high-resolution spectropolarimetric data taken with IMa…
Surface waves in solar granulation observed with {\sc Sunrise}
M. Roth, M. Franz, N. Bello González +10
Solar oscillations are expected to be excited by turbulent flows in the intergranular lanes near the solar surface. Time series recorded by the IMaX instrument aboard the {\sc Sunr…
SUNRISE/IMaX observations of convectively driven vortex flows in the Sun
J. A. Bonet, I. Marquez, J. Sanchez Almeida +10
We characterize the observational properties of the convectively driven vortex flows recently discovered on the quiet Sun, using magnetograms, Dopplergrams and images obtained with…
Bright points in the quiet Sun as observed in the visible and near-UV by the balloon-borne observatory Sunrise
T. L. Riethmueller, S. K. Solanki, V. Martínez Pillet +13
Bright points (BPs) are manifestations of small magnetic elements in the solar photosphere. Their brightness contrast not only gives insight into the thermal state of the photosphe…
Supersonic Magnetic Upflows in Granular Cells Observed with Sunrise/IMaX
J. M. Borrero, V. Martinez Pillet, R. Schlichenmaier +8
Using the IMaX instrument on-board the Sunrise stratospheric balloon-telescope we have detected extremely shifted polarization signals around the Fe I 5250.217 Å spectral line with…