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The global-scale interior magnetic field needed to account for the Sun's observed differential rotation can be effective only if confined below the convection zone in all latitudes, including the polar caps. Axisymmetric nonlinear MHD…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Toby S. Wood , Michael E. McIntyre

While it has been relatively easy to determine solar-cycle related changes in solar dynamics, determining changes in structure in the deeper layers of the Sun has proved to be difficult. By using helioseismic data obtained over two solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-25 Sarbani Basu

The observed splittings of solar oscillation frequencies can be employed to separate the effects of internal solar rotation and to estimate the contribution from a large-scale magnetic field or any latitude-dependent thermal perturbation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. M. Antia , S. M. Chitre , M. J. Thompson

Helioseismology is the study of the solar interior using observations of oscillations at the surface. It suffers from systematic errors, such as a center-to-limb error in travel-time measurements. Understanding these errors requires a good…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-04 N. M. Kostogryz , D. Fournier , L. Gizon

We derive knowledge on the global and structural parameters of low-mass stars using asteroseismology and taking advantage of the stellar collective behavior within open clusters. We build stellar models and compute the seismic signal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Piau , J. Ballot , S. Turck-Chieze

We evaluate the logarithmic derivative of the depth of the solar convective zone with respect to the logarithm of the radiative opacity. We use this expression to show that the radiative opacity near the base of the solar convective zone…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 John N. Bahcall , Aldo M. Serenelli , Marc Pinsonneault

Helioseismology has revealed the internal density and rotation profiles of the Sun. Yet, knowledge of its magnetic fields and meridional circulation is confined much closer to the surface, and latitudinal entropy gradients are below…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-29 Lee Gunderson , Amitava Bhattacharjee

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

Context. Local helioseismology has detected spatially extended converging surface flows into solar active regions. These play an important role in flux-transport models of the solar dynamo. Aims. We aim to validate the existence of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 B. Löptien , A. C. Birch , T. L. Duvall , L. Gizon , B. Proxauf , J. Schou

We explore the question of whether the interior state of massive red supergiant supernova progenitors can be effectively probed with asteroseismology. We have computed a suite of ten models with ZAMS masses from 15 to 25 m_sun in intervals…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 S. Nance , J. M. Sullivan , M. Diaz , J. Craig Wheeler

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

The questions whether the Sun shrinks with the solar activity and what causes this have been a subject of debate. Helioseismology provides means to measure with high precision the radial displacement of subsurface layers, co-called "seismic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Alexander Kosovichev , Jean-Pierre Rozelot

Large-eddy simulations (LES) and implicit LES (ILES) are wise and affordable alternatives to the unfeasible direct numerical simulations (DNS) of turbulent flows at high Reynolds numbers (Re). However, for systems with few observational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-13 H. D. Nogueira , G. Guerrero , P. K. Smolarkiewicz , A. G. Kosovichev

Measurements of seismic wave travel times at the photosphere of the Sun have enabled inferences of its interior structure and dynamics. In interpreting these measurements, the simplifying assumption that waves propagate through a temporally…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Shravan Hanasoge , Laurent Gizon , Guillaume Bal

The development of 2D and 3D simulations of solar convection has lead to a picture of convection quite unlike the usually assumed Kolmogorov spectrum turbulent flow. We investigate the impact of this changed structure on the dissipation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-14 Kaloyan Penev , Dimitar Sasselov , Frank Robinson , Pierre Demarque

We investigate small-scale dynamo action in the solar convection zone through a series of high resolution MHD simulations in a local Cartesian domain with 1$R_\odot$ (solar radius) of horizontal extent and a radial extent from 0.715 to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 H. Hotta , M. Rempel , T. Yokoyama

The recently released spacecraft potential measured by the RPW instrument on-board Solar Orbiter has been used to estimate the solar wind electron density in the inner heliosphere. Solar-wind electron density measured during June 2020 has…

Stellar seismology appears more and more as a powerful tool for a better determination of the fundamental properties of solar-type stars. However the particular case of Sun is still challenging. The helioseismic sound speed determination…

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

The operation of the solar dynamo, with all of its remarkable spatio-temporal ordering, remains an outstanding problem of modern solar physics. A number of mechanisms that might plausibly contribute to its operation have been proposed, but…