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Solar granulation consists of dynamic convective plasma cells that rise from the solar interior to the surface. The interaction between these plasma cells and the Sun's magnetic field provides valuable insights into plasma dynamics near the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-01 J. I. Campos Rozo , J. Jurčák , S. M. Díaz Castillo , M. van Noort

Downflows with high velocities occur in the transition region above many sunspots; however, how these signatures evolve over short time-scales in both spatial and spectral terms is still unknown. In this article, we investigate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 C. J. Nelson , S. Krishna Prasad , M. Mathioudakis

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

To investigate the penumbral plasma flow on a small scale, spectropolari- metric data of sunspots recorded by HINODE was used. Maps of Doppler velocities were created by evaluating the bisector in the line-wing, thereby visualizing the flow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-17 Morten Franz , Rolf Schlichenmaier

As large--distance rays (say, 10\,-\,$24 ^\circ$) approach the solar surface approximately vertically, travel times measured from surface pairs for these large separations are mostly sensitive to vertical flows, at least for shallow flows…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Thomas L. Duvall, , Shravan M. Hanasoge

Magnetic flux emergence from the convection zone into the photosphere and beyond is a critical component of the behaviour of large-scale solar magnetism. Flux rarely emerges amid field-free areas at the surface, but when it does, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-04 Prasad Mani , Chris S. Hanson , Siddarth Dhanpal , Shravan Hanasoge , Srijan Bharati Das , Matthias Rempel

Supergranules create a peak in the spatial spectrum of photospheric velocity features. They have some properties of convection cells but their origin is still being debated in the literature. The time-distance helioseismology constitutes a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 David Korda , Michal Švanda

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

Using turbulent MHD simulations (magnetic Reynolds numbers up to 8000) and Hinode observations, we study effects of turbulence on measuring the solar magnetic field outside active regions. Firstly, from synthetic Stokes V profiles for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Jonathan Pietarila Graham , Sanja Danilovic , Manfred Schuessler

We study recent observations of propagating fluctuations in a prominence foot with Hinode Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) high-resolution observations in Ca~II and H alpha emission which we identify as nonlinear fast magnetosnic waves. Here…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 Leon Ofman , Therese A. Kucera

Context: The atmosphere of the quiet Sun is controlled by photospheric flows sweeping up concentrations of mixed polarity magnetic field. Along supergranule boundaries and junctions, there is a strong correlation between magnetic flux and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. E. Innes , A. Genetelli , R. Attie , H. E. Potts

We present a subset of multi-wavelengths observations obtained with the Japanese Hinode mission, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), and the Vacuum Tower Telescope (VTT) at Observatorio del Teide, Tenerife, Spain during the time period…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. Verma , H. Balthasar , N. Deng , C. Liu , T. Shimizu , H. Wang , C. Denker

In the quiet regions on the solar surface, turbulent convective motions of granulation play an important role in creating small-scale magnetic structures, as well as in energy injection into the upper atmosphere. The turbulent nature of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 Ryohtaroh T. Ishikawa , Yukio Katsukawa , Takayoshi Oba , Motoki Nakata , Kenichi Nagaoka , Tatsuya Kobayashi

Local correlation tracking techniques are used to measure proper motions in a series of high angular resolution (~0.1 arcsec) penumbra images. If these motions trace true plasma motions, then we have detected converging flows that arrange…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Marquez , J. Sanchez Almeida , J. A. Bonet

The chromosphere above active regions (ARs) on the Sun hosts magnetized supersonic downflows. Studies of these supersonic downflows help to decipher the magnetic fine structure and dynamics of the chromosphere. We perform a statistical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-26 K. Sowmya , A. Lagg , S. K. Solanki , J. S. Castellanos Durán

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

Local helioseismology provides a unique opportunity to investigate the subsurface structure and dynamics of active regions and their effect on the large-scale flows and global circulation of the Sun. We use measurements of plasma flows in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-19 Alexander G. Kosovichev , Junwei Zhao , Stathis Ilonidis

The flows in and around sunspots are rich in detail. Starting with the Evershed flow along low-lying flow channels, which are cospatial with the horizontal penumbral magnetic fields, Evershed clouds may continue this motion at the periphery…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Carsten Denker , Meetu Verma

High resolution spectropolarimetric observations of 3 sunspots taken with Hinode demonstrate the existence of supersonic downflows at or close to the umbra-penumbra boundary which have not been reported before. These downflows are confined…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Rohan E. Louis , Luis R. Bellot Rubio , Shibu K. Mathew , P. Venkatakrishnan

Exploding granules on the solar surface play a major role in the dynamics of the outer part of the convection zone, especially in the diffusion of the magnetic field. We aim to develop an automated procedure able to investigate the location…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-30 J. Ballot , T. Roudier