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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

Meridional circulation is a crucial component of the Sun's internal dynamics, but its inference in the deep interior is complicated by a systematic center-to-limb effect in helioseismic measurement techniques. Previously, an empirical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 Ruizhu Chen , Junwei Zhao

Measuring the depth variation of the meridional flows is important for understanding the solar cycle, at least according to a number of dynamo models. While attempting to extend the early observations of \citet{giles_thesis} of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 Thomas L. Duvall, , Shravan M. Hanasoge

The paper presents a study of kinematic axisymmetric mean-field dynamo models for a case of the meridional circulation with a deep-seated stagnation point and a strong return flow at the bottom of the convection zone. This kind of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 V. V. Pipin , A. G. Kosovichev

The consistency of time--distance inversions for horizontal components of the plasma flow on supergranular scales in the upper solar convection zone is checked by comparing the results derived using two k--\omega filtering procedures --…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Michal Svanda

Convection, differential rotation, and meridional circulation of solar plasma are studied based on helioseismic data covering the period from May 2010 to August 2024, significantly prolonged compared to that previously considered. Depth…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-22 A. V. Getling , A. G. Kosovichev

The observed frequency shifts of the high-degree solar fundamental mode are explained using a simple geometrical optics approximation. The predicted fractional frequency shift is proportional to the mean squared velocity of the convection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrei Gruzinov

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

As the global magnetic field of the Sun has an activity cycle, one expects to observe some variation of the dynamical properties of the flows visible in the photosphere. We investigate the flow field during the solar cycle by analysing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Th. Roudier , J. M. Malherbe , G. M. Mirouh

Ring diagram analysis of solar oscillation power spectra obtained from MDI data is performed to study the velocity fields within the solar convection zone. The three dimensional power spectra are fitted to a model with a Lorentzian profile…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sarbani Basu , H. M. Antia , S. C. Tripathy

Solar subsurface zonal and meridional-flow profiles during the rising phase of solar cycle 24 are studied using time-distance helioseismology technique. The faster zonal bands in the torsional-oscillation pattern show strong hemispheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Junwei Zhao , A. G. Kosovichev , R. S. Bogart

Solar inertial modes have the potential to surpass the diagnostic capabilities of acoustic waves in probing the deep interior of the Sun. The fulfillment of this potential requires an accurate identification and characterization of these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-20 Chris S. Hanson , Vivek Menon , Shravan Hanasoge , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

The published Mount Wilson Doppler-shift measurements of the solar velocity field taken in 1967--1982 are revisited with a more accurate model, which includes two terms representing the meridional flow and three terms corresponding to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Valeri V. Makarov

Solar meridional circulation, which manifests as poleward flow near the surface, is a relatively weak flow. While meridional circulation has been measured through various local helioseismic techniques, there is a lack of consensus about the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-08 Samarth G. Kashyap , Shravan M. Hanasoge

We present a unified method to derive both solar wind velocities and coronal electron densities in the near-Sun corona using Doppler spectral broadening of spacecraft radio signals. The method is generalized to be frequency independent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-26 Keshav Aggarwal , R. K. Choudhary , Abhirup Datta , Roopa M. V. , Takeshi Imamura , Hiroki Ando

In the outer envelope of the Sun and in other stars, differential rotation and meridional circulation are maintained via the redistribution of momentum and energy by convective motions. In order to properly capture such processes in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. S. Miesch

The spatio-temporal dynamics of the solar photosphere is studied by performing a Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) of line of sight velocity fields computed from high resolution data coming from the MDI/SOHO instrument. Using this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Vecchio , V. Carbone , F. Lepreti , L. Primavera , L. Sorriso-Valvo , P. Veltri , G. Alfonsi , Th. Straus

An essential ingredient in kinematic dynamo models is the velocity field within the solar convection zone. In particular, the differential rotation is now well constrained by helioseismic observations. Helioseismology also gives us…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-30 Andrés Muñoz-Jaramillo , Dibyendu Nandy , Petrus C. H. Martens

We present independent observations of the solar-cycle variation of flows near the solar surface and at a depth of about 60 Mm, in the latitude range $\pm45^\circ$. We show that the time-varying components of the meridional flow at these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Gizon , M. Rempel

We apply time-distance helioseismology, local correlation tracking and Fourier spatial-temporal filtering methods to realistic supergranule scale simulations of solar convection and compare the results with high-resolution observations from…