Journal
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 845, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa7ca4
Keywords
Sun: activity; Sun: atmosphere; Sun: chromosphere; Sun: transition region; sunspots
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Funding
- BIS National E-infrastructure capital grant [ST/K001590/1]
- STFC capital grants [ST/H008861/1, ST/H00887X/1]
- DiRAC Operations grant [ST/K00333X/1]
- SOLARNET project - European Commissions FP7 Capacities Program [312495]
- UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
- Norwegian Research Council [250810/F20]
- Swedish Research Council [2015-03994]
- Swedish National Space Board [128/15]
- Swedish Civil Contigencies Agency (MSB)
- STFC [ST/P000304/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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We perform non-LTE inversions in a large set of umbral flashes, including the dark fibrils visible within them, and in the quiescent umbra by using the inversion code NICOLE on a set of full Stokes high-resolution Ca II lambda 8542 observations of a sunspot at disk center. We find that the dark structures have Stokes profiles that are distinct from those of the quiescent and flashed regions. They are best reproduced by atmospheres that are more similar to the flashed atmosphere in terms of velocities, even if with reduced amplitudes. We also find two sets of solutions that finely fit the flashed profiles: a set that is upflowing, featuring a transition region that is deeper than in the quiescent case and preceded by a slight dip in temperature, and a second solution with a hotter atmosphere in the chromosphere but featuring downflows close to the speed of sound at such heights. Such downflows may be related, or even dependent, on the presence of coronal loops, rooted in the umbra of sunspots, as is the case in the region analyzed. Similar loops have been recently observed to have supersonic downflows in the transition region and are consistent with the earlier sunspot plumes, which were invariably found to display strong downflows in sunspots. Finally, we find, on average, a magnetic field reduction in the flashed areas, suggesting that the shock pressure is moving field lines in the upper layers.
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