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AIM: To study the variation of the angular momentum and the rotational kinetic energy of the Sun, and associated variations in the gravitational multipole moments, on a timescale of the solar cycle. METHOD: Inverting helioseismic rotational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. M. Antia , S. M. Chitre , D. O. Gough

We compute magnetic helicity and energy spectra from about 2485 patches of about 100 megameters (Mm) side length on the solar surface using data from Hinode during 2006--2017. An extensive database is assembled where we list magnetic energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-30 Sanjay Gosain , Axel Brandenburg

A novel method of using hard X-rays as a diagnostic for chromospheric density and magnetic structures is developed to infer sub-arcsecond vertical variation of magnetic flux tube size and neutral gas density.Using Reuven Ramaty High Energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. P. Kontar , I. G. Hannah , A. L. MacKinnon

We investigate spatio-temporal evolution of high-degree acoustic mode frequencies of the Sun and the surface magnetic activity, over the course of multiple solar cycles, to improve our understanding of the connection between the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-20 Mackenzie A. Baird , Sushanta C. Tripathy , Kiran Jain

We present a new methodology which can determine magnetic helicity transport by the passage of helical magnetic field lines from sub-photosphere and the shuffling motions of foot-points of preexisting coronal field lines separately. It is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Y. Zhang , R. Kitai , K. Takizawa

We investigate, by numerical simulations, the photometric signature of magnetic flux tubes in the solar photosphere. We show that the observed contrast profiles are determined not only by the physical properties of the tube and its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-21 Serena Criscuoli

It is argued that much of the observed magnetic helicity losses at the solar surface may represent a reduction of an otherwise more dominant nonlinearity of solar and stellar dynamos. This nonlinearity is proportional to the internal twist…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Brandenburg , E. G. Blackman

Using time-sequence vector magnetic field and coronal observations from \textit{Solar Dynamics Observatory}, we report the observations of the magnetic field evolution and coronal activity in four emerging active regions (ARs). The ARs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-24 P. Vemareddy

The Chromosphere and Prominence Magnetometer (ChroMag) is conceived with the goal of quantifying the intertwined dynamics and magnetism of the solar chromosphere and in prominences through imaging spectro-polarimetry of the full solar disk.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Alfred G. de Wijn , Christian Bethge , Steven Tomczyk , Scott McIntosh

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

We consider the long-term behavior of the solar and heliospheric parameters and the GCR intensity in the periods of high solar activity and the inversions of heliospheric magnetic field (HMF). The classification of the HMF polarity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-01 M. B. Krainev , M. S. Kalinin

Recent analysis of the helioseismic observations indicate that the previously observed surface torsional oscillations extend significantly downwards into the solar convection zone. In an attempt to understand these oscillations, we study…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eurico Covas , Reza Tavakol , David Moss , Andrew Tworkowski

Magnetic helicity is an invariant of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) that encodes information on the topology of magnetic field lines. It has long been appreciated that magnetic topology is an important constraint for the evolution of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-25 David MacTaggart , Chris Prior

The nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) modeling has been extensively used to infer the three-dimensional (3D) magnetic field in the solar corona. One of the assumptions in the NLFFF extrapolation is that the plasma beta is low, but this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-30 Yusuke Kawabata , Andrés Asensio Ramos , Satoshi Inoue , Toshifumi Shimizu

Two of the most important features of the solar atmosphere are its hot, smooth coronal loops and the concentrations of magnetic shear, known as filament channels, that reside above photospheric polarity inversion lines (PILs). The shear…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-30 Kalman J. Knizhnik

Using data from orbits one to eleven of the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) mission, the magnetic field spectral index was measured across a range of heliocentric distances. The previously observed transition between a value of $-5/3$ far from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-11 J. R. McIntyre , C. H. K. Chen , A. Larosa

Observations of the Sun in the visible spectral range belong to standard measurements obtained by instruments both on the ground and in the space. Nowadays, both nearly continuous full-disc observations with medium resolution and dedicated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-30 Michal Švanda , Jan Jurčák , David Korda , Jana Kašparová

The solar-wind magnetosphere interaction primarily occurs at altitudes where the dipole component of Earth's magnetic field is dominating. The disturbances that are created in this interaction propagate along magnetic field lines and…

Combined action of helical motions of plasma (the $\alpha$ effect) and non-uniform (differential) rotation is a key dynamo mechanism of solar and galactic large-scale magnetic fields. Dynamics of magnetic helicity of small-scale fields is a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-20 N. Kleeorin , I. Rogachevskii