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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.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…

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.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.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…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 35 cited

Three-minute wave enhancement in the solar photosphere

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

It is a well-known result that the power of five-minute oscillations is progressively reduced by magnetic fields in the solar photosphere. Many authors have pointed out that this f…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 62 cited

MHD wave transmission in the Sun's atmosphere

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

MHD wave propagation inside the Sun's atmosphere is closely related to the magnetic field topology. For example, magnetic fields are able to lower the cutoff frequency for acoustic…

astro-ph.SR2010★ 9 cited

Line shape effects on intensity measurements of solar features: Brightness correction to SoHO MDI continuum images

S. Criscuoli, I. Ermolli, D. Del Moro +4

Continuum intensity observations obtained with the Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) on-board the SoHO mission provide long time series of filtergrams that are ideal for studying the…

astro-ph.SR2010★ 40 cited

Interpretation of HINODE SOT/SP asymmetric Stokes profiles observed in quiet Sun network and internetwork

B. Viticchié, J., Sánchez Almeida +2

We present the first interpretation of the Stokes profile asymmetries measured in the FeI 630 nm lines by SOT/SP, in both quiet Sun internetwork (IN) and network regions. The inver…

astro-ph.SR2010★ 45 cited

Imaging Spectropolarimetry with IBIS II: on the fine structure of G-band bright features

B. Viticchié, D. Del Moro, S. Criscuoli +1

We present new results from first observations of the quiet solar photosphere performed through the Interferometric BIdimensional Spectrometer (IBIS) in spectropolarimetric mode. I…

astro-ph.SR2010★ 71 cited

Magnetic bright points in the quiet Sun

J. Sanchez Almeida, J. A. Bonet, B. Viticchie +1

We present a visual determination of the number of bright points (BPs) existing in the quiet Sun, which are structures though to trace intense kG magnetic concentrations. The measu…