Dampening Long-Period Doppler Shift Oscillations using Deep Machine Learning Techniques in the Solar Network and Internetwork

TL;DR

This paper uses deep learning to analyze Doppler shift oscillations in solar bright points, revealing damping behaviors that suggest wave energy transport in the solar atmosphere.

Contribution

It is the first study to investigate longitudinal damping oscillations in BPs using comprehensive Doppler velocity analysis with deep learning.

Findings

80% of network BPs in quiet areas show damping

Damping rates vary across regions, with active areas showing higher damping

All damping observed is underdamped, indicating wave propagation and energy leakage

Abstract

This study explores the Doppler shift at different wavelengths in the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) solar spectrum and implements a comprehensive consideration of Doppler velocity oscillations in the IRIS channels. This comprehensive consideration reveals a propagating periodic perturbation in a large number of chromosphere and transition region (TR) bright points (BPs). To our knowledge, this is the first investigation of the longitudinal oscillations with damping in BPs using comprehensive consideration of the Doppler velocity at various wavelengths. The phenomena of attenuation in the red and blue Doppler shifts of the solar wavelength range were seen several times during the experiments. We utilized deep learning techniques to examine the statistical properties of damping in network and internetwork BPs, as well as active, quiet areas, and coronal hole areas. Our results revealed varying damping rates across different regions, with 80 percent of network BPs exhibiting damping in quiet areas and 72 in coronal hole areas. In active areas, the figure approached 33. For internetwork BPs, the values were 65, 54, and 63 percent for quiet areas, coronal hole areas, and active regions, respectively. The damping rate in active regions is twice as high at Internetwork's BPs. The damping components in this study were computed, and the findings show that the damping at all points is underdamped. The observed damping process suggests the propagation and leaking of energetic waves out of TR bright points, potentially contributing to the energy transport from the bright magnetic footpoints to the upper chromosphere, transition region, and corona.