We present simultaneous photospheric and chromospheric observations of the trailing sunspot in NOAA 10904, obtained with the Swedish Solar Telescope (SST) La Palma, Canary Islands. Time series of high resolution Ca ii H images show transient jet-like structures in sunspot umbrae are elongated, which we call umbral microjets. These jets are directed roughly parallel to nearby penumbral microjets, suggesting that they are aligned with the background magnetic field. In general, first a bright dot-like structure appears, from which a jet later emerges, although some jets appear without an associated chromospheric dot. Bright photospheric umbral dots are associated with umbral microjets arising in the outer umbra. Nevertheless, a one-to-one correspondence between jet-like events and underlying umbral dots is not seen. They are typically less than 1 long and less than 0. 3 wide. The typical lifetime of umbral microjets is around one minute. The brightness of these structures increases from the center of the umbra toward the umbra-penumbra boundary along with the brightness of the local background.

Realistic 3D radiative MHD simulations reveal the magneto-convective processes underlying the formation of the photospheric fine structure of sunspots, including penumbral filaments and umbral dots. Here we provide results from a statistical analysis of simulated umbral dots and compare them with reports from high-resolution observations. A multi-level segmentation and tracking algorithm has been used to isolate the bright structures in synthetic bolometric and continuum brightness images. Areas, brightness, and lifetimes of the resulting set of umbral dots are found to be correlated: larger umbral dots tend to be brighter and live longer. The magnetic field strength and velocity structure of umbral dots on surfaces of constant optical depth in the continuum at 630 nm indicate that the strong field reduction and high velocities in the upper parts of the upflow plumes underlying umbral dots are largely hidden from spectro-polarimetric observations. The properties of the simulated umbral dots are generally consistent with the results of recent highresolution observations. However, the observed population of small, short-lived umbral dots is not reproduced by the simulations, possibly owing to insufficient spatial resolution.

A multiwavelength photometric analysis was performed in order to study the sub‐structure of a sunspot light bridge in the photosphere and the chromosphere. Active region NOAA 8350 was observed on 1998 October 8. The data consist of a 100 min time series of 2D spectral scans of the lines Fe i 5576 Å, Hα 6563 Å, Fe i 6302.5 Å, and continuum images at 5571 Å. We recorded line‐of‐sight magnetograms in 6302.5 Å. The observations were taken at the Dunn Solar Telescope at US National Solar Observatory, Sacramento Peak. We find evidence for plasma ejection from a light bridge followed by Ellerman bombs. Magnetograms of the same region reveal opposite polarity in light bridge with respect to the umbra. These facts support the notion that low‐altitude magnetic reconnection can result in the magnetic cancellation as observed in the photosphere.

An analysis of high-resolution G-band images of active region NOAA 10930 is presented. The observations were recorded with the Broadband Filter Imager (BFI) attached to the Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) on board the Hinode mission. We observed dark lanes in umbral dots up to six folds in larger ones. Formation of umbral dots from dark core penumbral filament shows dark lanes. The evolution of the light bridge from the dark core penumbral filament is observed, which further disintegrates into umbral dots. These observations are compatible with the simulations of three-dimensional radiative magnetoconvection with gray radiative transfer in sunspot umbra by Schüssler & Vögler, which support the notion that these structures appear as a result of magnetoconvection.

We present the results of multi wavelength, co-spatial and near co-temporal observations of jets above a sunspot light bridge. The data were obtained with the Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) on board Hinode, the Interface Region Spectrograph (IRIS) and the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO). Most of the jets in the Ca II H images show decreasing brightness with height while in the IRIS slit jaw images at 1330Å jets show a bright leading edge. These jets show rising and falling motion as evident from the parabolic profile obtained from the time-distance diagram. The rising and falling speeds of the jets are similar. These jets show a coordinated behaviour between neighbouring jets moving jointly up and down. Some of the jets show a plasma ejection from the leading edge which is also hotter at the transition region (TR) and coronal temperatures . A Similar behaviour is seen in the AIA wave bands that suggests that jets above the LB reach up to the lower corona and the leading edges are heated up to coronal temperatures. Such jets are important means of transfer mass and energy to the transition region and corona above sunspots.