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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 822, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/822/1/35
关键词
Sun: corona; Sun: magnetic fields; Sun: transition region; sunspots
资金
- NSF REU grant [AGS-1157027]
- NASA Postdoctoral Program at the NASA MSFC
- LWS TRT Program of the Heliophysics Division of NASA's SMD
- Hinode project office, NASA SMD's STP Program
- Div Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [1460767] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
We report observations of bright dots (BDs) in a sunspot penumbra using High Resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C) data in 193 angstrom and examine their sizes, lifetimes, speeds, and intensities. The sizes of the BDs are on the order of 1 ''. and are therefore hard to identify in the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) 193 angstrom imag, which have a 1 '' 2 spatial resolution, but become readily apparent with Hi-C's spatial resolution, which is five times better. We supplement Hi-C data with data from AIA's 193 angstrom passband to see the complete lifetime of the BDs that appeared before and/or lasted longer than Hi-C ' s three-minute observation period. Most Hi-C BDs show clear lateral movement along penumbral striations, either toward or away from the sunspot umbra. Single BDs often interact with other BDs, combining to fade away or brighten. The BDs that do not interact with other BDs tend to have smaller displacements. These BDs are about as numerous but move slower on average than Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) BDs, which was recently reported by Tian et al., and the sizes and lifetimes are on the higher end of the distribution of IRIS BDs. Using additional AIA passbands, we compare the light curves of the BDs to test whether the Hi-C BDs have transition region (TR) temperatures like those of the IRIS BDs. The light curves of most Hi-C BDs peak together in different AIA channels, indicating that their temperatures are likely in the range of the cooler TR (1-4 x 10(5) K).
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