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Waves in the Lower Solar Atmosphere: the dawn of next-generation solar telescopes

The WaLSA team have published a 170 page review article in Living Reviews in Solar Physics. The article is written for early career researchers and well-established professional astronomers alike, who are interested in the physics of waves and oscillations manifesting in the lower solar atmosphere.

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Discovery of several wave modes coexisting within a sunspot

Using high-resolution observations and state-of-the-art numerical modelling, members of the WaLSA Team, in collaboration with other scientists, have discovered a wide spectrum of magneto-acoustic frequencies (with more than 30 eigenmodes) coexisting within a large sunspot. The research has been published in Nature Communications.

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High-resolution wave dynamics in the lower solar atmosphere

A Special Issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A published by the WaLSA Team, comprising a great set of 15 cutting-edge research articles from 55 unique authors spanning 34 research institutes.

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Acoustic-gravity wave propagation characteristics in 3D radiation hydrodynamic simulations of the solar atmosphere

Bernhard Fleck, Mats Carlsson, Elena Khomenko, Matthias Rempel, Oskar Steiner, Vigeesh Gangadharan

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On the effect of oscillatory phenomena on Stokes inversion results

Peter H. Keys, Oskar Steiner, Vigeesh Gangadharan

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Influence of ambipolar and Hall effects on vorticity in 3D simulations of magneto-convection

E. Khomenko, M. Collados, N. Vitas, P. A. Gonzalez-Morales

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Characterisation of shock wave signatures at millimetre wavelengths from Bifrost simulations

Henrik Eklund, Sven Wedemeyer, Ben Snow, David B. Jess, Shahin Jafarzadeh , Samuel D.T. Grant, Mats Carlsson, Mikołaj Szydlarski

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A New Method for Detecting Solar Atmospheric Gravity Waves

Daniele Calchetti, Stuart M. Jefferies, Bernhard Fleck, Francesco Berrilli, and Dmitriy V. Shcherbik

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On the influence of magnetic topology on the propagation of internal gravity waves in the solar atmosphere

G. Vigeesh, M. Roth, O. Steiner and B. Fleck

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An overall view of temperature oscillations in the solar chromosphere with ALMA

S. Jafarzadeh, S. Wedemeyer, B. Fleck, M. Stangalini, D. B. Jess, R. J. Morton, M. Szydlarski1, V. M. J. Henriques, X. Zhu, T. Wiegelmann, J. C. Guevara Gómez, S. D. T. Grant, B. Chen, K. Reardon, and S. M. White

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High-frequency oscillations in small chromospheric bright features observed with ALMA

Juan C. Guevara Gómez, Shahin Jafarzadeh, Sven Wedemeyer, Mikolaj Szydlarski, Marco Stangalini, Bernhard Fleck, Peter H. Keys

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Magnetoacoustic Wave Energy Dissipation in the Atmosphere of Solar Pores

Caitlin A. Gilchrist-Millar, David B. Jess, Samuel D. T. Grant, Peter H. Keys, Christian Beck, Shahin Jafarzadeh, Julia M. Riedl, Tom Van Doorsselaere, Basilio Ruiz Cobo

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The dynamics of 3-minute wavefronts and their relation to sunspot magnetic fields

Robert Sych, David B. Jess, David B., Jiangtao Su

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Proper Orthogonal and Dynamic Mode Decomposition of Sunspot Data

A. B. Albidah, W. Brevis, V. Fedun, I. Ballai, D. B. Jess, M. Stangalini, J. Higham, G. Verth

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Spectropolarimetric Fluctuations in a Sunspot Chromosphere

M. Stangalini, D. Baker, G. Valori, D.B. Jess, S. Jafarzadeh, M. Murabito, A.S.H. To, D.H. Brooks, I. Ermolli, F. Giorgi, C.D. MacBride

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Accurately constraining velocity information from spectral imaging observations using machine learning techniques

Conor D. MacBride, David B. Jess, Samuel D. T. Grant, Elena Khomenko, Peter H. Keys, and Marco Stangalini

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Transverse motions in sunspot super-penumbral fibrils

R. J. Morton, K. Mooroogen, and V. M. J. Henriques

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Oscillations observed in umbra, plage, quiet-Sun and the polarity inversion line of active region 11158 using Helioseismic Magnetic Imager/Solar Dynamics Observatory data

A. A. Norton, R. B. Stutz and B. T. Welsch

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First observational evidence of resonance cavity in a sunspot

The WaLSA Team has succeeded to the ground-breaking discovery of why the Sun’s magnetic waves strengthen and grow as they emerge from its surface. Such waves can help to solve the mystery of how the corona of the Sun maintains its multi-million degree temperatures. The research entitled "A chromospheric resonance cavity in a sunspot mapped with seismology" has been published in Nature Astronomy.

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ISSI International Team

The WaLSA Team has been selected as an International Space Science Institute (ISSI) Team, providing a distinguished grant and facilities to hold a series of two to three one-week team meetings over a period of 2-3 years (during 2021-2023) at ISSI in Bern, Switzerland.

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The Royal Society's Theo Murphy Award

The Hooke Committee of The Royal Society awarded the WaLSA Team a prestigious grant to host a Theo Murphy international meeting in February 2020 at Chicheley Hall (home of the Kavli Royal Society International Centre). The meeting was also selected for publication in a dedicated issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.

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Rosseland International Team

The WaLSA team has been awarded a generous grant from the Research Council of Norway through its Centres of Excellence scheme, project number 262622 (the Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics), to organise two 1-week meetings in Oslo, Norway, during 2019. The grant supports the team for local expenses as well as the meeting facilities.

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