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We study Doppler velocity measurements at multiple heights in the solar atmosphere using a set of six filtergrams obtained by the Helioseismic magnetic Imager on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory. There are clear and significant phase…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-15 Kaori Nagashima , Laurent Gizon , Aaron Birch , Björn Löptien , Sebastien Couvidat , Bernhard Fleck

The photospheric Evershed flow is normally oriented radially outward, yet sometimes opposite velocities are observed not only in the chromosphere but also in the photospheric layers of the penumbra. We study the velocity field in a special…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 H. Balthasar , C. Denker , A. Diercke , S. J. González Manrique , C. Kuckein , J. Löhner Böttcher , R. E. Louis , M. Sobotka , M. Verma

The Helioseismic Magnetic Imager (HMI) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) records line-of-sight Dopplergram images of convective flows on the surface. These images are used to obtain the multi-scale convective spectrum. We design…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-09 Samarth G Kashyap , Shravan M Hanasoge

We study the influence of large-scale photospheric motions on the estabilization of an eruptive filament, observed on October 6, 7, and 8, 2004, as part of an international observing campaign (JOP 178). Large-scale horizontal flows were…

Spectra of the cellular photospheric flows are determined from full-disk Doppler velocity observations acquired by the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) instrument on the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft. Three different…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-01 David H. Hathaway , Thibaud Teil , Aimee A. Norton , Irina Kitiashvili

Long-lived rotational and meridional flows are important ingredients of the solar cycle. Magnetic field images have typically been used to measure these flows on the solar surface by cross-correlating thin longitudinal strips or square…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Derek A. Lamb

The Solar Dynamics Observatory/Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (SDO/HMI) filtergrams, taken at six wavelengths around the Fe I 6173.3 {\AA} line, contain information about the line-of-sight velocity over a range of heights in the solar…

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

This white paper advocates the importance of multi-height measurements of the vector magnetic field in the solar atmosphere. As briefly described in this document, these measurements are critical for addressing some of the most fundamental…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-13 L. Bertello , N. Arge , A. G. De Wijn , S. Gosain , C. Henney , K. D. Leka , J. Linker , Y. Liu , J. Luhmann , P. J. Macniece , G. Petrie , A. Pevtsov , A. A. Pevtsov

We have obtained high resolution spectrograms of small scale magnetic structures with the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope. We present Doppler measurements at $0\farcs{2}$ spatial resolution of bright points, ribbons and flowers and their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Øystein Langangen , Mats Carlsson , Luc Rouppe van der Voort , R. F. Stein

We studied the solar surface flows (differential rotation and meridional circulation) using a magnetic element feature tracking technique by which the surface velocity is obtained using magnetic field data. We used the line-of-sight…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Shinsuke Imada , Masashi Fujiyama

The WISPR imager on Parker Solar Probe provides a unique view the young solar wind, flying through solar wind structures at high speed. It is of interest to use WISPR image sequences to measure the velocity of both large features (such as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-05 Samuel J. Van Kooten , Craig E. Deforest , Guillermo Stenborg , Kenny N. Kenny

Observations of magnetic helicity transportation through the solar photosphere reflect the interaction of turbulent plasma movements and magnetic fields in the solar dynamo process. In this chapter, we have reviewed the research process of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-14 Hongqi Zhang , Shangbin Yang , Haiqing Xu , Xiao Yang , Jie Chen , Jihong Liu

For the first time, the motion of granules (solar plasma on the surface on scales larger than 2.5 Mm) has been followed over the entire visible surface of the Sun, using SDO/HMI white-light data. Horizontal velocity fields are derived from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Th. Roudier , M. Rieutord , J. M. Malherbe , N. Renon , T. Berger , Z. Frank , V. Prat , L. Gizon , M. Svanda

The Sun supports a rich spectrum of internal waves that are continuously excited by turbulent convection. The GONG network and the MDI/SOHO space instrument provide an exceptional data base of spatially-resolved observations of solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 L. Gizon , A. C. Birch , H. C. Spruit

Estimates of velocities from time series of photospheric and/or chromospheric vector magnetograms can be used to determine fluxes of magnetic energy (the Poynting flux) and helicity across the magnetogram layer, and to provide…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-03 B. T. Welsch , G. H. Fisher

The moat flow, a radial outflow surrounding fully fledged sunspots, is a well characterised phenomenon. Nevertheless, its origin and especially its relation to the penumbra is still a controversial topic. We investigate the evolution of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-06 Hanna Strecker , Nazaret Bello González

The zero point of measured photospheric Doppler shifts is uncertain for at least two reasons: instrumental variations (from, e.g., thermal drifts), and the convective blueshift, a known correlation between intensity and upflows. Calibrated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Brian T. Welsch , George H. Fisher , Xudong Sun

Imaging systems based on a narrow-band tunable filter are used to obtain Doppler velocity maps of solar features. These velocity maps are created by taking the difference between the blue- and red-wing intensity images of a chosen spectral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-16 Sreejith Padinhatteeri , R. Sridharan , K. Sankarasubramanian

Aims: Our goal is to develop methodologies to seamlessly track transient solar wind flows viewed by coronagraphs or heliospheric imagers from rapidly varying viewpoints. Methods: We constructed maps of intensity versus time and elongation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 A. Nindos , S. Patsourakos , A. Vourlidas , P. C. Liewer , P. Penteado , J. R. Hall