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We analyse mesogranular flow patterns in a three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulation of solar surface convection in order to determine its characteristics. We calculate divergence maps from horizontal velocities obtained with the Local…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Ł. Matloch , R. Cameron , S. Shelyag , D. Schmitt , M. Schüssler

Gas convection is observed in the solar photosphere as the granulation, i.e., having highly time-dependent cellular patterns, consisting of numerous bright cells called granules and dark surrounding-channels called intergranular lanes. Many…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 T. Oba , Y. Iida , T. Shimizu

The measurement of Doppler velocities in spectroscopic solar observations requires a reference for the local frame of rest. The rotational and radial velocities of the Earth and the rotation of the Sun introduce velocity offsets in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jaime de la Cruz Rodríguez , Dan Kiselman , Mats Carlsson

Manifestations of stellar activity (such as star-spots, plage/faculae, and convective flows) are well known to induce spectroscopic signals often referred to as astrophysical noise by exoplanet hunters. For example, setting an ultimate goal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 H. M. Cegla , C. A. Watson , S. Shelyag , W. J. Chaplin , G. R. Davies , M. Mathioudakis , M. L. III Palumbo , S. H. Saar , R. D. Haywood

The flows in and around sunspots are rich in detail. Starting with the Evershed flow along low-lying flow channels, which are cospatial with the horizontal penumbral magnetic fields, Evershed clouds may continue this motion at the periphery…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Carsten Denker , Meetu Verma

Recent results from high-resolution solar granulation observations indicate the existence of a population of small granular cells that are smaller than 600 km in diameter. These small convective cells strongly contribute to the total area…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-05 B. Lemmerer , D. Utz , A. Hanslmeier , A. Veronig , S. Thonhofer , H. Grimm-Strele , R. Kariyappa

Time-averaged series of granulation images are analysed using COLIBRI, a purpose-adapted version of a code originally developed to detect straight or curvilinear features in aerospace images. The algorithm of image processing utilises a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-19 A. V. Getling , A. A. Buchnev

The solar interior is filled with turbulent thermal convection, which plays a key role in the energy and momentum transport and the generation of the magnetic field. The turbulent flows in the solar interior cannot be optically detected due…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Hiroyuki Masaki , Hideyuki Hotta

Helioseismic inferences of large-scale flows in the solar interior necessitate accounting for the curvature of the Sun, both in interpreting systematic trends introduced in measurements as well as the sensitivity kernel that relates…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-23 Jishnu Bhattacharya

Improving irradiance forecasting is critical to further increase the share of solar in the energy mix. On a short time scale, fish-eye cameras on the ground are used to capture cloud displacements causing the local variability of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Quentin Paletta , Joan Lasenby

To address the problem of the low accuracy of transverse velocity field measurements for small targets in high-resolution solar images, we proposed a novel velocity field measurement method for high-resolution solar images based on PWCNet.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-29 Z. -H. Shang , S. -Y. Mu , K. -H Ji , Z. -P. Qiang

Observations of the solar surface reveal the presence of flows with length scales of around $35$ Mm, commonly referred to as supergranules. Inferring the sub-surface flow profile of supergranules from measurements of the surface and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 Jishnu Bhattacharya , Shravan M. Hanasoge

Context. Local helioseismology has detected spatially extended converging surface flows into solar active regions. These play an important role in flux-transport models of the solar dynamo. Aims. We aim to validate the existence of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 B. Löptien , A. C. Birch , T. L. Duvall , L. Gizon , B. Proxauf , J. Schou

We report on the dynamical interaction of quiet-Sun magnetic fields and granular convection in the solar photosphere as seen by \textsc{Sunrise}. We use high spatial resolution (0\farcs 15--0\farcs 18) and temporal cadence (33 s)…

We derive formulae connecting the frequency variations in the spectrum of solar oscillations to the dynamical quantities that are expected to change over the solar activity cycle. This is done for both centroids and the asymmetric part of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. A. Dziembowski , P. R. Goode

The solar corona is host to a continuous flow of propagating disturbances (PD). These are continuous and ubiquitous across broad regions of the corona, including the quiet Sun. The aim of this paper is to present an improved, efficient…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Huw Morgan , Marianna Korsos

Digital tracking detects faint solar system bodies by stacking many images along hypothesized orbits, revealing objects that are undetectable in every individual exposure. Previous searches have been restricted to small areas and short time…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 Alex Geringer-Sameth , Nathan Golovich , Keita Iwabuchi

Large scale flows in the Sun play an important role in the dynamo process linked to the solar cycle. The important large scale flows are the differential rotation and the meridional circulation with an amplitude of km/s and few m/s ,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 Th. Roudier , M. Svanda , J. Ballot , J. M. Malherbe , M. Rieutord

Flow vorticity is a fundamental property of turbulent convection in rotating systems. Solar supergranules exhibit a preferred sense of rotation, which depends on the hemisphere. This is due to the Coriolis force acting on the diverging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-09 J. Langfellner , L. Gizon , A. C. Birch

Over the past few years, researchers have presented many different applications for convolutional neural networks, including those for the detection and recognition of objects from images. The desire to understand our own nature has always…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Gergely Csönde , Yoshihide Sekimoto , Takehiro Kashiyama