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The results of new observations of moustaches in Hα filtergrams and in Hα spectra are presented and their relations to photospheric and chromospheric phenomena are studied. The main findings and conclusions are: (1) previous results on basic data (size, brightness, lifetime, etc.) are essentially confirmed; (2) limb observations located the moustaches at the base of the structured Hα chromosphere, just above the level of the emission of Hα±1 Å. At the disk moustaches are, in general, covered by absorbing and slightly Doppler-shifted chromospheric elements which determine the Hα core in the moustache spectrum. However, absorption-free moustaches with an Hα emission core revealing a pure (true) moustache spectrum have also been found; (3) moustaches have been found to coincide with continuous facular granules; it is suggested that they are an extension of facular granules into the chromosphere rather than a low-level flare-like phenomenon.
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Bruzek, A. Some observational results on moustaches. Sol Phys 26, 94–107 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00155110
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