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The Sun's net radiative output varies on timescales of minutes to gigayears. Direct measurements of the total solar irradiance (TSI) show changes in the spatially- and spectrally-integrated radiant energy on timescales as short as minutes…

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The observed splittings of solar oscillation frequencies can be employed to separate the effects of internal solar rotation and to estimate the contribution from a large-scale magnetic field or any latitude-dependent thermal perturbation…

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Accurate determination of the rotation rate in the radiative zone of the sun from helioseismic observations requires rotational frequency splittings of exceptional quality as well as reliable inversion techniques. We present here inferences…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Eff-Darwich , S. G. Korzennik , S. J. Jimenez-Reyes , R. A. Garcia

We review the behavior of the oscillating shear layer produced by gravity waves below the surface convection zone of the Sun. We show that, under asymmetric filtering produced by this layer, gravity waves of low spherical order, which are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Suzanne Talon , Pawan Kumar , Jean-Paul Zahn

The Sun and Sun-like stars lose angular momentum to their magnetised stellar winds. This braking torque is coupled to the stellar magnetic field, such that changes in the strength and/or geometry of the field modifies the efficiency of this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Adam J. Finley , Siddhant Deshmukh , Sean P. Matt , Mathew Owens , Chi-Ju Wu

The Sun's internal rotation {\Omega}(r,{\Theta}) has previously been measured using helioseismology techniques and found to be a complex function of co-latitude, {\theta}, and radius, r. From helioseismology and observations of apparently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 Ian Cunnyngham , Marcelo Emilio , Jeff Kuhn , Isabelle Scholl , Rock Bush

The tilt angle, current helicity and twist of solar magnetic fields can be observed in solar active regions. We carried out estimates of these parameters by two ways. Firstly, we consider the model of turbulent convective cells…

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The solar-cyle variation of acoustic mode frequencies has a frequency dependence related to the inverse mode inertia. The discrepancy between model predictions and measured oscillation frequencies for solar and solar-type stellar acoustic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 R. Howe , S. Basu , G. R. Davies , W. H. Ball , W. J. Chaplin , Y. Elsworth , R. Komm

We examine continuous measurements of the high-degree acoustic mode frequencies of the Sun covering the period from 2001 July to June 2014. These are obtained through the ring-diagram technique applied to the full-disk Doppler observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 S. C. Tripathy , K. Jain , F. Hill

Large scale solar magnetic field topology has a great influence on the structure of the corona, heliosphera and geomagnetic perturbations. Data obtained over the last three solar cycles have been analysed to reveal the relationships between…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-12 E. A. Gavryuseva

This paper reports positive detections of surface differential rotation on two rapidly rotating cool stars at several epochs, by using stellar surface features (both cool spots and magnetic regions) as tracers of the large scale latitudinal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. -F. Donati , A. Collier Cameron , P. Petit

Local helioseismology has opened new frontiers in our quest for understanding of the internal dynamics and dynamo on the Sun. Local helioseismology reconstructs subsurface structures and flows by extracting coherent signals of acoustic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-20 Alexander G. Kosovichev , Junwei Zhao

We present evidence of hitherto undiscovered global-scale oscillations in the near-surface shear layer of the Sun. These oscillations are seen as large scale variations of radial shear in both the zonal and meridional flows relative to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Richard S. Bogart , Charles S. Baldner , Sarbani Basu , Rachel Howe , Maria Cristina Rabello Soares

Using solar-cycle long helioseismic measurements of meridional and zonal flows in the near-surface shear layer (NSSL) of the Sun, we study their spatio-temporal variations and connections to active regions. We find that near-surface inflows…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Anisha Sen , S. P. Rajaguru , Abhinav Govindan Iyer , Ruizhu Chen , Junwei Zhao , Shukur Kholikov

We analyzed the sunspot-group daily data that were reported by Greenwich Photoheliogrphic Results (GPR) during the period 1874-1976 and Debrecen Photoheliographic Data (DPD) during the period 1977-2017. We determined the equatorial rotation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-04 J. Javaraiah

Temporal offsets between the time series of solar activity indicators provide important clues regarding the physical processes responsible for the cyclic variability in the solar atmosphere. Hysteresis patterns generated between any two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 K. B. Ramesh , N Vasantharaju

Solar oscillations consist of a rich spectrum of internal acoustic waves and surface gravity waves, stochastically excited by turbulent convection. They have been monitored almost continuously over the last ten years with high-precision…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-26 L. Gizon

We show that the mean phase of waves propagating all the way from the far side of the Sun to the front side, as measured by seismic holography, varies with time. The change is highly anticorrelated with solar cycle activity and is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-09 I. Gonzalez Hernandez , P. Scherrer , F. Hill

The evolution of the solar activity comprises, apart from the well-known 11-year cycle, various temporal scales ranging from months up to the secondary cycles known as mid-term oscillations. Its nature deserves a physical explanation. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-04 D. D. Sokoloff , A. S. Shibalova , V. N. Obridko , V. V. Pipin

By applying the theory of slowly rotating stars to the Sun, the solar quadrupole and octopole moments J2 and J4 were computed using a solar model obtained from CESAM stellar evolution code (Morel, 1997) combined with a recent model of solar…

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