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most citedSolar science with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array - A new view of our Sun

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33 papers

astro-ph.SR2025

Observations of microwave emission from solar jets and comparison with MHD simulations

Costas E. Alissandrakis, Vasilis Archontis, Kostas Moraitis

We computed the thermal microwave emission from a 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation and compared it with observations of solar jets. The simulation treats the emergence of ma…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

ALMA Observations of Solar Spicules in a Polar Coronal Hole

T. S. Bastian, C. Alissandrakis, A. Nindos +2

We report observations of solar spicules at millimeter wavelengths (mm-) using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). These are supplemented by observations in…

astro-ph.SR2024

Giant post-flare loops in active regions with extremely strong coronal magnetic fields

Costas E. Alissandrakis, Gregory D. Fleishman, Viktor V. Fedenev +2

We report for the first time the detection of thermal free-free emission from post-flare loops at 34GHz in images from the Nobeyama Radioheliograph (NoRH). We studied 8 loops, 7 of…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 6 cited

Explosive Events in the Quiet Sun Near and Beyond the Solar Limb Observed with the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)

C. E. Alissandrakis, J. -C. Vial

We study point-like explosive events (EE), characterized by emission in the far wings of spectral lines, in a quiet region near the South Pole, using Interface Region Imaging Spect…

astro-ph.SR2022

The quiet Sun at mm Wavelengths as Seen by ALMA

Costas Alissandrakis, Timothy Bastian, Roman Brajša

Solar observations at sub-mm, mm and cm wavelengths offer a straightforward diagnostic of physical conditions in the solar atmosphere because they yield measurement of brightness t…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 4 cited

Where is the base of the Transition Region? Evidence from TRACE, SDO, IRIS and ALMA observations

C. E. Alissandrakis

Classic solar models put the Chromosphere-Corona Transition Region (CCTR} at Mm above the level, whereas rMHD models place it in a wider range of heights. Obs…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 14 cited

A first look at the submillimeter Sun with ALMA

C. E. Alissandrakis, T. S. Bastian, A. Nindos

We present the first full-disk solar images obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Band 7 (0.86 mm; 347 GHz). In spite of the low spatial resoluti…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 4 cited

First detection of metric emission from a solar surge

C. E. Alissandrakis, S. Patsourakos, A. Nindos +2

We report the first detection of metric radio emission from a surge, observed with the Nançay Radioheliograph (NRH), STEREO and other instruments. The emission was observed during…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 3 cited

High-resolution observations with ARTEMIS/JLS and the NRH: IV. Imaging spectroscopy of spike-like structures near the front of type-II bursts

S. Armatas, C. Bouratzis, A. Hillaris +5

Narrowband bursts (spikes) appear on dynamic spectra from microwave to decametric frequencies. They are believed to be manifestations of small-scale energy release through magnetic…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 16 cited

Multi-wavelength Observations of a Metric Type-II Event

C. E. Alissandrakis, A. Nindos, S. Patsourakos +1

We have studied a complex metric radio event which originated in a compact flare, observed with the ARTEMIS-JLS radiospectro-graph on February 12, 2010. The event was associated wi…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 17 cited

ALMA observations of the variability of the quiet Sun at millimeter wavelengths

A. Nindos, S. Patsourakos, C. E. Alissandrakis +1

Using Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of the quiet Sun at 1.26 and 3 mm, we study spatially resolved oscillations and transient brightenings, i.e.…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 17 cited

Modeling the quiet Sun cell and network emission with ALMA

C. E. Alissandrakis, A. Nindos, T. S. Bastian +1

ALMA observations of the Sun at mm- offer a unique opportunity to investigate the temperature structure of the solar chromosphere. In this article we expand our previous work on…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 22 cited

Transient brightenings in the quiet Sun detected by ALMA at 3 mm

A. Nindos, C. E. Alissandrakis, S. Patsourakos +1

Using ALMA observations, we performed the first systematic survey for transient brightenings (i.e. weak, small-scale episodes of energy release) in the quiet solar chromosphere at…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 30 cited

Observations of solar chromospheric oscillations at 3 mm with ALMA

S. Patsourakos, C. E. Alissandrakis, A. Nindos +1

We studied chromospheric oscillations using Atacama Large millimeter and sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) time-series of interferometric observations of the quiet Sun obtained at 3 mm w…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 10 cited

Measurement of the Height of the Chromospheric Network Emission from Solar Dynamics Observatory Images

C. E. Alissandrakis

We measured the height of the chromospheric network in the 1700, 1600, and 304 A wavelength bands of the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 10 cited

High-resolution observations with ARTEMIS-JLS and the NRH. III. Spectroscopy and imaging of fiber bursts

C. E. Alissandrakis, C. Bouratzis, A. Hillaris

Aims: We study the characteristics of intermediate drift bursts (fibers) embedded in the July 14, 2000 large solar event. Methods: We used dynamic spectra from the acousto-optic an…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 9 cited

Structure of the transition region and the low corona from TRACE and SDO observations near the limb

C. E. Alissandrakis, A. Valentino

We examined the structure near the solar limb in TRACE images of the continuum and in the 1600 and 171 A bands as well as in SDO images in the continuum (from HMI) and all AIA band…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 11 cited

Detection of spike-like structures near the front of type-II bursts

S. Armatas, C. Bouratzis, A. Hillaris +6

Aims. We examine high time resolution dynamic spectra for fine structures in type II solar radio bursts Methods. We used data obtained with the (SAO) receiver of the Artemis-JLS (A…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 13 cited

Modeling of the sunspot-associated microwave emission using a new method of DEM inversion

C. E. Alissandrakis, V. M. Bogod, T. I. Kaltman +2

We developed a method to compute the temperature and density structure along the line of sight by inversion of the differential emission measure (DEM), under the assumptions of str…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 28 cited

First high-resolution look at the quiet Sun with ALMA at 3 mm

A. Nindos, C. E. Alissandrakis, T. S. Bastian +9

We present an overview of high resolution quiet Sun observations, from disk center to the limb, obtained with the Atacama Large mm and sub-mm Array (ALMA) at 3 mm. Seven quiet Sun…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 32 cited

IRIS Observations of Spicules and Structures Near the Solar Limb

C. E. Alissandrakis, J. -C. Vial, A. Koukras +2

We have analyzed IRIS spectral and slit-jaw observations of a quiet region near the South Pole. In this article we present an overview of the observations, the corrections, and the…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 61 cited

Center-to-limb observations of the Sun with ALMA

C. E. Alissandrakis, S. Patsourakos, A. Nindos +1

We measured the center-to-limb variation of the brightness temperature, , from ALMA full-disk images at two frequencies and inverted the solution of the transfer equation to o…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 8 cited

Evidence for two-loop interaction from IRIS and SDO observations of penumbral brightenings

C. E. Alissandrakis, A. Koukras, S. Patsourakos +1

We analyzed spectral and imaging data from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), images from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) aboard the Solar Dynamics Observator…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 2 cited

ALMA Observations of the Sun in Cycle 4 and Beyond

S. Wedemeyer, B. Fleck, M. Battaglia +34

This document was created by the Solar Simulations for the Atacama Large Millimeter Observatory Network (SSALMON) in preparation of the first regular observations of the Sun with t…