TY - JOUR A1 - Diercke, Andrea A1 - Kuckein, Christoph A1 - Verma, Meetu A1 - Denker, Carsten T1 - Filigree in the surroundings of polar crown and high-latitude filaments JF - Solar physics : a journal for solar and solar-stellar research and the study of solar terrestrial physics N2 - High-resolution observations of polar crown and high-latitude filaments are scarce. We present a unique sample of such filaments observed in high-resolution H alpha narrow-band filtergrams and broad-band images, which were obtained with a new fast camera system at the Vacuum Tower Telescope (VTT), Tenerife, Spain. The Chromospheric Telescope (ChroTel) provided full-disk context observations in H alpha, CaiiK, and Hei 10830 angstrom. The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) and the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) provided line-of-sight magnetograms and ultraviolet (UV) 1700 angstrom filtergrams, respectively. We study filigree in the vicinity of polar crown and high-latitude filaments and relate their locations to magnetic concentrations at the filaments' footpoints. Bright points are a well studied phenomenon in the photosphere at low latitudes, but they were not yet studied in the quiet network close to the poles. We examine size, area, and eccentricity of bright points and find that their morphology is very similar to their counterparts at lower latitudes, but their sizes and areas are larger. Bright points at the footpoints of polar crown filaments are preferentially located at stronger magnetic flux concentrations, which are related to bright regions at the border of supergranules as observed in UV filtergrams. Examining the evolution of bright points on three consecutive days reveals that their amount increases while the filament decays, which indicates they impact the equilibrium of the cool plasma contained in filaments. KW - Chromosphere KW - Quiet KW - Granulation KW - Magnetic fields KW - Photosphere KW - Prominences KW - Quiescent Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-021-01776-7 SN - 0038-0938 SN - 1573-093X VL - 296 IS - 2 PB - Springer CY - Dordrecht ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kamlah, Robert A1 - Verma, Meetu A1 - Diercke, Andrea A1 - Denker, Carsten T1 - Wavelength dependence of image quality metrics and seeing parameters and their relation to adaptive optics performance JF - Solar physics : a journal for solar and solar-stellar research and the study of solar terrestrial physics N2 - Ground-based solar observations are severely affected by Earth's turbulent atmosphere. As a consequence, observed image quality and prevailing seeing conditions are closely related. Partial correction of image degradation is nowadays provided in real time by adaptive optics (AO) systems. In this study, different metrics of image quality are compared with parameters characterizing the prevailing seeing conditions, i.e. Median Filter Gradient Similarity (MFGS), Median Filter Laplacian Similarity (MFLS), Helmli-Scherer mean, granular rms-contrast, differential image motion, and Fried-parameter r(0). The quiet-Sun observations at disk center were carried out at the Vacuum Tower Telescope (VTT), Observatorio del Teide (OT), Izana, Tenerife, Spain. In July and August 2016, time series of short-exposure images were recorded with the High-resolution Fast Imager (HiFI) at various wavelengths in the visible and near-infrared parts of the spectrum. Correlation analysis yields the wavelength dependence of the image quality metrics and seeing parameters, and Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) is employed to characterize the seeing on a particular observing day. In addition, the image quality metrics and seeing parameters are used to determine the field dependence of the correction provided by the AO system. Management of high-resolution imaging data from large-aperture, ground-based telescopes demands reliable image quality metrics and meaningful characterization of prevailing seeing conditions and AO performance. The present study offers guidance on how retrieving such information ex post facto. KW - Granulation KW - Photosphere KW - Chromosphere KW - Image restoration KW - Adaptive KW - optics KW - Instrumentation and data management Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-021-01771-y SN - 1573-093X VL - 296 IS - 2 PB - Springer Science + Business Media B.V CY - Dordrecht [u.a.] ER -