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Spherical solar dynamo simulations are performed. Self-consistent, fully compressible magnetohydrodynamic system with a stably stratified layer below the convective envelope is numerically solved with a newly developed simulation code based…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Youhei Masada , Kohei Yamada , Akira Kageyama

In this work, we present SoFT: Solar Feature Tracking, a novel feature-tracking tool developed in Python and designed to detect, identify, and track magnetic elements in the solar atmosphere. It relies on a watershed segmentation algorithm…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-10 M. Berretti , M. Stangalini , S. Mestici , D. B. Jess , S. Jafarzadeh , F. Berrilli

Spectral analysis of the spatial structure of solar subphotospheric convection is carried out for subsurface flow maps constructed using the time--distance helioseismological technique. The source data are obtained from the Helioseismic and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-27 Alexander V. Getling , Alexander G. Kosovichev

We test and compare a number of existing models predicting the location of magnetic reconnection at Earth's dayside magnetopause for various solar wind conditions. We employ robust image processing techniques to determine the locations…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-04-24 C. M. Komar , R. L. Fermo , P. A. Cassak

We construct partially ionized hydrogen atmosphere models for magnetized neutron stars in radiative equilibrium with surface fields B=10^12-5 \times 10^14 G and effective temperatures T_eff \sim a few \times 10^5-10^6 K. These models are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Wynn C. G. Ho , Dong Lai , Alexander Y. Potekhin , Gilles Chabrier

A continuum evolutionary model for micromagnetics is presented that, beside the standard magnetic balance laws, includes thermo-magnetic coupling. To allow conceptually efficient computer implementation, inspired by relaxation method of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-02-06 Barbora Benešová , Martin Kružík , Tomáš Roubíček

The solar photosphere is filled by a magnetic field which is tangled on scales much smaller than the resolution capability of solar telescopes. This hidden magnetic field can be investigated via the Hanle effect. In 2007 we started a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-02 Renzo Ramelli , Michele Bianda , Svetlana Berdyugina , Luca Belluzzi , Lucia Kleint

Here we formulate and solve the 3D radiative transfer problem of the polarization of the solar continuous radiation. Our approach takes into account not only the anisotropy of the continuum radiation, but also the symmetry-breaking effects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 J. Trujillo Bueno , N. Shchukina

Magnetic quenching of turbulent thermal diffusivity leads to instability of the large-scale field with the production of spatially isolated regions of enhanced field. This conclusion follows from a linear stability analysis in the framework…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-01 Leonid L. Kitchatinov

Aims. In this paper we analyse numerically the propagation and dispersion of acoustic waves in the solar-like sub-photosphere with localised non-uniform magnetic field concentrations, mimicking sunspots with various representative magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Shelyag , S. Zharkov , V. Fedun , R. Erdelyi , M. J. Thompson

We study the structure of the photospheric magnetic field of the quiet Sun by investigating weak spectro-polarimetric signals. We took a sequence of Stokes spectra of the Fe I 630.15 nm and 630.25 nm lines in a region of quiet Sun near the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Rezaei , R. Schlichenmaier , W. Schmidt , O. Steiner

Magnetic field generation in the Sun and solar-type stars is modeled here based on the formation of magnetically polarized condensates (B. M. Mirza, Mod. Phys. Lett. B 28 (2014) 1450148) under the high density and pressure conditions. The…

General Physics · Physics 2015-05-29 Babur M. Mirza

Charge transfer in polymer devices represents a crucial, though highly inaccessible stage of photocurrent generation. In this article we propose studying the properties and behaviour of organic solar cells through the modification of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-09-27 S. Oviedo-Casado , A. Urbina , J. Prior

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

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 structure of the photospheric vector magnetic field below a dark filament on the Sun is studied using the observations of the Spectro-Polarimeter attached to the Solar Optical Telescope onboard Hinode. Special attention is paid to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 Takaaki Yokoyama , Yukio Katsukawa , Masumi Shimojo

The surface structure of the magnetic field in stars is one part of the information about the surface inhomogeneities like brightness, movement or chemical composition, which is contained in the integral radiation flux but distorted beyond…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Gerth , Yu. V. Glagolevskij

High resolution images at different wavelengths, spectrograms and magnetograms, representing different levels of the solar atmosphere obtained with Hinode have been combined to study the 3-dimensional structure of the small magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-06 V. Domingo , J. Palacios , L. A. Balmaceda , S. Vargas Domínguez , Iballa Cabello

Magnetic helicity flux gives information about the topology of a magnetic field passing through a boundary. In solar physics applications, this boundary is the photosphere and magnetic helicity flux has become an important quantity in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-03 Chris Prior , David MacTaggart

We report the observations of the magneto-hydrodynamic waves propagating along magnetic flux tubes in the solar photosphere. We identified 20 isolated strong peaks (8 peaks for pores and 12 peaks for inter-granular magnetic structure) in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Daisuke Fujimura , Saku Tsuneta