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A well-established, comprehensive 3-D numerical modulation model is applied to simulate galactic protons, electrons and positrons from May 2011 to May 2015, including the solar magnetic polarity reversal of Solar Cycle 24. The objective is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-25 O. P. M. Aslam , Xi Luo , M. S. Potgieter , M. D. Ngobeni , Xiaojian Song

We use recently digitized sunspot drawings from Mount Wilson Observatory to investigate the latitudinal dependence of tilt angles of active regions and its change with solar cycle. The drawings cover the period from 1917 to present and…

The solar cycle and its associated magnetic activity are the main drivers behind changes in the interplanetary environment and the Earth's upper atmosphere (commonly referred to as space weather). These changes have a direct impact on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-12 Andrés Muñoz-Jaramillo , María Dasi-Espuig , Laura A. Balmaceda , Edward E. DeLuca

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

We review recent insights into the dynamics of the solar convection zone obtained from global numerical simulations, focusing on two recent developments in particular. The first is quasi-cyclic magnetic activity in a long-duration dynamo…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Mark S. Miesch , Benjamin P. Brown , Matthew K. Browning , Allan Sacha Brun , Juri Toomre

The Sun's activity cycle governs the radiation, particle and magnetic flux in the heliosphere creating hazardous space weather. Decadal-scale variations define space climate and force the Earth's atmosphere. However, predicting the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-11 Prantika Bhowmik , Dibyendu Nandy

The injection of magnetic helicity into the heliosphere during solar cycle 24 and the early phase of cycle 25 has been calculated based on the analysis of a series of synoptic magnetic charts. During the cycle, the injected magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-28 H. Q. Zhang , S. B. Yang , K. M. Kuzanyan , Axel Brandenburg , H. Q. Xu , D. D. Sokoloff

Using time-distance local helioseismology flow maps within 1 Mm of the solar photosphere, we detect inflows toward activity belts that contribute to solar cycle scale variations in near-surface meridional flow. These inflows stretch out as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Sushant S. Mahajan , Xudong Sun , Junwei Zhao

We observe the abrupt end of solar activity cycles at the Sun's equator by combining almost 140 years of observations from ground and space. These "terminator" events appear to be very closely related to the onset of magnetic activity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Scott W. McIntosh , Robert J. Leamon , Ricky Egeland , Mausumi Dikpati , Yuhong Fan , Matthias Rempel

Supergranulation is a component of solar convection that manifests itself on the photosphere as a cellular network of around 35 Mm across, with a turnover lifetime of 1-2 days. It is strongly linked to the structure of the magnetic field.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Peter E. Williams , W. Dean Pesnell

Measurements from the Mount Wilson Observatory (MWO) are used to study the long-term variations of sunspot field strengths from 1920 to 1958. Following a modified approach similar to that in Pevtsov et al. (2011), for each observing week we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-28 Alexei A. Pevtsov , Luca Bertello , Andrey G. Tlatov , Ali Kilcik , Yury A. Nagovitsyn , Edward W. Cliver

We have used available intermediate degree p-mode frequencies for the solar cycle 23 to check the validity of previously derived empirical relations for frequency shifts (Jain et al.: 2000, Solar Phys., 192, 487). We find that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Kiran Jain , S. C. Tripathy , A. Bhatnagar

We present meridional flow measurements of the Sun using a novel helioseismic approach for analyzing SOHO/MDI data in order to push the current limits in radial depth. Analyzing three consecutive months of data during solar minimum, we find…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 U. Mitra-Kraev , M. J. Thompson

The polar magnetic field of the Sun is a manifestation of certain aspects of the dynamo process and is a good precursor for predicting a sunspot cycle before its onset. Although actual synoptic measurements of this field exist only from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Arnab Rai Choudhuri

The sunspot number data during the past 400 years indicates that both the profile and the amplitude of the solar cycle have large variations. Some precursors of the solar cycle were identified aiming to predict the solar cycle. The polar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jie Jiang

With the unique database from Michelson Doppler Imager aboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory in an interval embodying solar cycle 23, the cyclic behavior of solar small-scale magnetic elements is studied. More than 13 million…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-18 C. L. Jin , J. X. Wang , Q. Song , H. Zhao

Solar coronal holes are sources of high-speed solar wind streams, which cause persistent geomagnetic activity especially at high latitudes. Here we estimate seasonal solar wind speeds at 1 AU for the last 100 years using high-latitude…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 Kalevi Mursula , Lauri Holappa , Renata Lukianova

The detailed investigation of the polar magnetic field and its time evolution is one of the major achievements of Hinode. Precise measurements of the polar magnetic field are essential for understanding the solar cycle, as they provide…

We have used solar oscillation frequencies and frequency splittings obtained over solar cycles 23, 24 and the rising phase of solar cycle 25 to investigate whether the tachocline properties (jump i.e., the change in the rotation rate across…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-04 Sarbani Basu , Wesley Antônio Machado Andrade de Aguiar , Sylvain G. Korzennik

The Galactic cosmic ray spectrum manifests pronounced variations over the 11-year sunspot cycle and more subtle variations over the 22-year solar magnetic cycle. An important tool to study these variations is repeated latitude surveys with…