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The convectively driven, weakly magnetized regions of the solar photosphere dominate the Sun's surface at any given time, but the temporal variations of these quiet regions of the photosphere throughout the solar cycle are still not well…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-05 James Crowley , Ivan Milic , Gianna Cauzzi , Kevin Reardon

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

The Sun's complex dynamics is controlled by buoyancy and rotation in the convection zone and by magnetic forces in the atmosphere and corona. While small-scale solar convection is well understood, the dynamics of large-scale flows in the…

Stellar convection is a non-local process responsible for the transport of heat and chemical species. It can lead to enhanced mixing through convective overshooting and excitation of internal gravity waves (IGWs) at convective boundaries.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 D. G. Vlaykov , I. Baraffe , T. Constantino , T. Goffrey , T. Guillet , A. Le Saux , A. Morison , J. Pratt

The transport of energy through convection is important during many stages of stellar evolution, and is best studied in our Sun or giant evolved stars. Features that are attributed to convection are found on the surface of massive red…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-16 W. Vlemmings , T. Khouri , B. Bojnordi Arbab , E. De Beck , M. Maercker

In this paper, the physical conditions within the inhomogeneous solar atmosphere have been reconstructed by means of solving the inverse problem of Non Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium (NLTE) radiative transfer. The profiles of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. I. Stodilka , S. Z. Malynych

Meridional flow is thought to play a very important role in the dynamics of the solar convection zone; however, because of its relatively small amplitude, precisely measuring it poses a significant challenge. Here we present a complete…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-02 J. Jackiewicz , A. Serebryanskiy , S. Kholikov

Fluid-dynamics simulations of global solar convection are a critically important tool for assessing the dynamics of the solar interior. However, simulation studies with a fully compressible hydrodynamics code are not yet common. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-09 Keiji Hayashi , Alexander G. Kosovichev , Chunlei Liang

The solar atmosphere displays a sharp temperature gradient, starting from spicules in the chromosphere at $2 \times 10^4$ K, outward into the corona exceeding $10^6$ K. Plasma turbulence produced by the transverse motion of magnetic fields…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-03 Zac Bailey , Riddhi Bandyopadhyay , Shadia Habbal , Miloslav Druckmüller

In solar-like oscillators, acoustic waves are excited by turbulent motion in the convective envelope and propagate inward, generating a variety of standing pressure modes. When combining together the power of several solar acoustic modes,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-27 E. Panetier , R. A. García , S. N. Breton , A. Jiménez , T. Foglizzo

The He-shell flash convection in AGB stars is the site for the high-temperature component of the s-process in low- and intermediate mass giants, driven by the Ne22 neutron source. [...] The upper convection boundary plays a critical role…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-23 Paul R. Woodward , David H. Porter , Falk Herwig , Marco Pignatari , Jagan Jayaraj , Pei-Hung Lin

(Abridged) We describe the results of three-dimensional (3D) numerical simulations designed to study turbulent convection in the stellar interiors, and compare them to stellar mixing-length theory (MLT). Simulations in 2D are significantly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Casey A. Meakin , David Arnett

We present and discuss results from time-distance helioseismic measurements of meridional circulation in the solar convection zone using 4 years of Doppler velocity observations by the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) onboard the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-11 S. P. Rajaguru , H. M. Antia

Granules observed in solar photosphere are believed to be convective and turbulent, but the physical picture of granular dynamical process remains unclear. Here we performed an investigation of granular dynamical motions of full length…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Liu Yanxiao , Jiang Chaowei , Yuan Ding , Zuo Pingbing , Wang Yi , Cao Wenda

We adopted an unstructured hydrodynamical solver CharLES to the problem of global convection in the Sun. With the aim to investigate the properties of solar turbulent convection and reproduce differential rotation pattern. We performed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-24 Vyacheslav Olshevsky , Chunlei Liang , Frank Ham

Supergranulation is one of the most visible length scales of solar convection and has been studied extensively by local helioseismology. We use synthetic data computed with the Seismic Propagation through Active Regions and Convection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 D. E. Dombroski , A. C. Birch , D. C. Braun , S. M. Hanasoge

The global-scale dynamo action achieved in a simulation of a Sun-like star rotating at thrice the solar rate is assessed. The 3-D MHD Anelastic Spherical Harmonic (ASH) code, augmented with a viscosity minimization scheme, is employed to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Kyle Augustson , Sacha Brun , Mark Miesch , Juri Toomre

Meridional flows with velocities of a few meters per second are observed in the uppermost regions of the solar convection zone. The amplitude and pattern of the flows deeper in the solar interior, in particular near the top of the radiative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Garaud , N. H. Brummell

We report the results of a magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) simulation of a convective dynamo in a model solar convective envelope driven by the solar radiative diffusive heat flux. The convective dynamo produces a large-scale mean magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-18 Yuhong Fan , Fang Fang

As we approach solar convection simulations that seek to model the interaction of small-scale granulation and supergranulation and even larger scales of convection within the near-surface shear layer (NSSL), the treatment of the boundary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Kyle Augustson , Mark Rast , Regner Trampedach , Juri Toomre