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32 papers

astro-ph.SR2025

On the Temporal Variability in the Magnetic Dichotomy of Late M Dwarf Stars

Giuseppina Nigro, Francesco Berrilli, Giuseppe Bono +4

Rapidly rotating late M dwarfs are observed in two different branches of magnetic activity, although they operate in the same stellar parameter range. Current empirical evidence in…

astro-ph.SR2025

Investigating the Temperature Sensitivity of UV Line Ratios in the 280 nm Region of Solar-like Stars

Valentina Penza, Serena Criscuoli, Raffaele Reda +7

Stellar UV spectra are fundamental diagnostics of physical and magnetic properties of stars. For instance, lines like Mg II at 280 nm serve as valuable indicators of stellar activi…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 3 cited

A catalogue of observed geo-effective CME/ICME characteristics

R. Mugatwala, S. Chierichini, G. Francisco +7

One of the goals of Space Weather studies is to achieve a better understanding of impulsive phenomena, such as Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), in order to improve our ability to for…

astro-ph.IM2023

CAESAR: Space Weather archive prototype for ASPIS

Marco Molinaro, Valerio Formato, Carmelo Magnafico +18

The project CAESAR (Comprehensive spAce wEather Studies for the ASPIS prototype Realization) is aimed to tackle all the relevant aspects of Space Weather (SWE) and realize the prot…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 18 cited

The exoplanetary magnetosphere extension in Sun-like stars based on the solar wind -- solar UV relation

Raffaele Reda, Luca Giovannelli, Tommaso Alberti +6

The Earth's magnetosphere extension is controlled by the solar activity level via solar wind properties. Understanding such a relation in the Solar System is important for predicti…

physics.space-ph2022★ 19 cited

Parameter Distributions for the Drag-Based Modeling of CME Propagation

Gianluca Napoletano, Raffaello Foldes, Enrico Camporeale +7

In recent years, ensemble modeling has been widely employed in space weather to estimate uncertainties in forecasts. We here focus on the ensemble modeling of CME arrival times and…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 5 cited

A prototype of a large tunable Fabry-Perot interferometer for solar spectroscopy

V. Greco, A. Sordini, G. Cauzzi +7

Large Fabry-Perot Interferometers are used in a variety of astronomical instrumentation, including spectro-polarimeters for 4-meter class solar telescopes. In this work we comprehe…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 27 cited

Flare Forecasting Algorithms Based on High-Gradient Polarity Inversion Lines in Active Regions

Domenico Cicogna, Francesco Berrilli, Daniele Calchetti +6

Solar flares emanate from solar active regions hosting complex and strong bipolar magnetic fluxes. Estimating the probability of an active region to flare and defining reliable pre…

astro-ph.SR2020

Chromospheric Heating by Acoustic Waves Compared to Radiative Cooling: II -- Revised Grid of Models

Vahid Abbasvand, Michal Sobotka, Petr Heinzel +4

Acoustic and magnetoacoustic waves are considered to be possible agents of chromospheric heating. We present a comparison of deposited acoustic energy flux with total integrated ra…

astro-ph.IM2018

Speckle statistics in adaptive optics images at visible wavelengths

Marco Stangalini, Fernando Pedichini, Enrico Pinna +11

Residual speckles in adaptive optics (AO) images represent a well-known limitation on the achievement of the contrast needed for faint source detection. Speckles in AO imagery can…

physics.space-ph2018

A Probabilistic Approach to the Drag-Based Model

Gianluca Napoletano, Roberta Forte, Dario Del Moro +3

The forecast of the time of arrival of a coronal mass ejection (CME) to Earth is of critical importance for our high-technology society and for any future manned exploration of the…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 13 cited

Occurrence and persistence of magnetic elements in the quiet Sun

F. Giannattasio, F. Berrilli, G. Consolini +3

Turbulent convection efficiently transports energy up to the solar photosphere, but its multi-scale nature and dynamic properties are still not fully understood. Several works in t…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 6 cited

JP3D compression of solar data-cubes: photospheric imaging and spectropolarimetry

Dario Del Moro, Luca Giovannelli, Ermanno Pietropaolo +1

Hyperspectral imaging is an ubiquitous technique in solar physics observations and the recent advances in solar instrumentation enabled us to acquire and record data at an unpreced…

astro-ph.SR2016

The dependence of the [FUV-MUV] colour on solar cycle

M. Lovric, F. Tosone, E. Pietropaolo +4

Solar UV variability is extremely relevant for the stratospheric ozone. It has an impact on Earth's atmospheric structure and dynamics through radiative heating and ozone photochem…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 25 cited

Chromospheric heating by acoustic waves compared to radiative cooling

M. Sobotka, P. Heinzel, M. Švanda +3

Acoustic and magnetoacoustic waves are among the possible candidate mechanisms that heat the upper layers of solar atmosphere. A weak chromospheric plage near a large solar pore NO…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 1 cited

N-body model of magnetic flux tubes reconnecting in the solar atmosphere

Luca Giovannelli, Francesco Berrilli, Dario Del Moro +7

The investigation of dynamics of the small scale magnetic field on the Sun photosphere is necessary to understand the physical processes occurring in the higher layers of solar atm…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 14 cited

Super-diffusion versus competitive advection: a simulation

D. Del Moro, F. Giannattasio, F. Berrilli +3

Magnetic element tracking is often used to study the transport and diffusion of the magnetic field on the solar photosphere. From the analysis of the displacement spectrum of these…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 14 cited

Magnetic pattern at supergranulation scale: the Void Size Distribution

Francesco Berrilli, Stefano Scardigli, Dario Del Moro

The large-scale magnetic pattern of the quiet sun is dominated by the magnetic network. This network, created by photospheric magnetic fields swept into convective downflows, delin…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 41 cited

Diffusion of magnetic elements in a supergranular cell

F. Giannattasio, M. Stangalini, F. Berrilli +2

Small scale magnetic fields (magnetic elements) are ubiquitous in the solar photosphere. Their interaction can provide energy to the upper atmospheric layers, and contribute to hea…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 49 cited

Dynamics of the solar atmosphere above a pore with a light bridge

M. Sobotka, M. Švanda, J. Jurčák +3

Context: Solar pores are small sunspots lacking a penumbra that have a prevailing vertical magnetic field component. They can include light bridges at places with locally reduced m…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 42 cited

Diffusion of solar magnetic elements up to supergranular spatial and temporal scales

F. Giannattasio, D. Del Moro, F. Berrilli +3

The study of spatial and temporal scales on which small magnetic structures (magnetic elements) are organized in the quiet Sun may be approached by determining how they are transpo…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 1 cited

Atmosphere above a large solar pore

M. Sobotka, M. Svanda, J. Jurcak +2

A large solar pore with a granular light bridge was observed on October 15, 2008 with the IBIS spectrometer at the Dunn Solar Telescope and a 69-min long time series of spectral sc…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 3 cited

On the asymmetry of velocity oscillation amplitude in bipolar active regions

F. Giannattasio, M. Stangalini, D. Del Moro +1

The velocity field in the lower solar atmosphere undergoes strong interactions with magnetic fields. Many authors have pointed out that power is reduced by a factor between two and…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 18 cited

High cadence spectropolarimetry of moving magnetic features observed around a pore

S. Criscuoli, D. Del Moro, F. Giannattasio +5

Moving magnetic features (MMFs) are small-size magnetic elements that are seen to stream out from sunspots, generally during their decay phase. Several observational results presen…