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Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves have been considered as energy sources for heating the solar chromosphere and the corona. Although MHD waves have been observed in the solar atmosphere, there are a lack of quantitative estimates on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-01 Ryuichi Kanoh , Toshifumi Shimizu , Shinsuke Imada

In the solar atmosphere, the acoustic cutoff frequency is a local quantity which depends on the atmospheric height. It separates the low-frequency evanescent waves from the high-frequency propagating waves. We measure the cutoff frequency…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 T. Felipe , C. Kuckein , I. Thaler

Solar chromospheric observations of sunspot umbrae offer an exceptional view of magneto-hydrodynamic wave phenomena. In recent years, a wealth of wave signatures related to propagating magneto-acoustic modes have been presented, which…

Understanding energy transfer through the chromosphere is paramount to solving the coronal heating problem. We investigated the energy dissipation of acoustic waves in the chromosphere of the quiet Sun using 3D radiative magnetohydrodynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 Elias R. Udnæs , Tiago M. D. Pereira

We observe and characterize the scattering of acoustic wave packets by a sunspot, in a regime where the wavelength is comparable to the size of the sunspot. Spatial maps of wave traveltimes and amplitudes are measured from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-04 Z. -C. Liang , L. Gizon , H. Schunker

Improving methods for determining the subsurface structure of sunspots from their seismic signature requires a better understanding of the interaction of waves with magnetic field concentrations. We aim to quantify the impact of changes in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 T. Felipe , D. C. Braun , A. C. Birch

The long term study of the Sun is necessary if we are to determine the evolution of sunspot properties and thereby inform modeling of the solar dynamo, particularly on scales of a solar cycle. We aim to determine a number of sunspot…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-23 Fraser T. Watson , Lyndsay Fletcher , Stephen Marshall

Given the recent interest in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves in pores and sunspot umbrae, we examine the damping of slow surface kink modes (SSKMs) by modeling solar photospheric waveguides with a cylindrical inhomogeneity comprising a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-03 Shao-Xia Chen , Bo Li , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Marcel Goossens , Hui Yu , Michael Geeraerts

Slow magnetoacoustic waves (SMAWs) have been considered in the past as a possible candidate for chromospheric heating. This study analyzes 20 active regions observed between 2012 and 2016 to examine the amplitude and energy flux variation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-22 Y. Sanjay , S. Krishna Prasad , P. S. Rawat

The effects of acoustic wave absorption, mode conversion and transmission by a sunspot on the helioseismic inferences are widely discussed, but yet accounting for them has proved difficult for lack of a consistent framework within…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-26 S. P. Rajaguru

It is well-known that the global acoustic oscillations of the Sun's atmosphere can excite resonance modes within large-scale magnetic concentrations. These structures are conduits of energy between the different layers of the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-14 M. Berretti , M. Stangalini , G. Verth , V. Fedun , S. Jafarzadeh , D. B. Jess , F. Berrilli

Acoustic wave heating is believed to contribute significantly to the missing energy input required to maintain the solar chromosphere in its observed state. We studied the propagation of waves above the acoustic cutoff in the upper…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Momchil E. Molnar , Kevin P. Reardon , Steven R. Cranmer , Adam F. Kowalski , Ivan Milic

It has long been known that magnetic plage and sunspots are regions in which the power of acoustic waves is reduced within the photospheric layers. Recent observations now suggest that this suppression of power extends into the low…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Rekha Jain , Andrew Gascoyne , Bradley W. Hindman , Benjamin Greer

In this Letter we present a seismological detection of a rising motion of magnetic flux in the shallow convection zone of the Sun, and show estimates of the emerging speed and its decelerating nature. In order to evaluate the speed of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Shin Toriumi , Stathis Ilonidis , Takashi Sekii , Takaaki Yokoyama

Context. The height structure of 3-min oscillations over sunspots is studied in the context of the recently discovered effect of height inversion: over the umbra, the spatial location of the maximum of chromospheric 3-min oscillation power…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-11 N. I. Kobanov , D. Y. Kolobov , S. A. Chupin , V. M. Nakariakov

Data analysis of sunspot oscillation based on 6-hr SDO run of observation showed that low frequency (0.2 < ! < 1 mHz) oscillations are local similar to three and five minute oscillations. The oscillations in the sunspot are concentrated in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 Y. Zhugzhda , R. Sych

We use 2D numerical simulations and eikonal approximation, to study properties of MHD waves traveling below the solar surface through the magnetic structure of sunspots. We consider a series of magnetostatic models of sunspots of different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 E. Khomenko , A. Kosovichev , M. Collados , K. Parchevsky , V. Olshevsky

Oscillation amplitudes are generally smaller within magnetically active regions like sunspots and plage, when compared to their surroundings. Such magnetic features, when viewed in spatially-resolved powermaps, appear as regions of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-30 S. Krishna Prasad , D. B. Jess , R. Jain , P. H. Keys

It is generally accepted that solar acoustic (p) modes are excited by near-surface turbulent motions, in particular, by downdrafts and interacting vortices in intergranular lanes. Recent analysis of Solar Dynamics Observatory data by (Zhao…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Irina N. Kitiashvili , Alexander G. Kosovichev , Nagi N. Mansour , Alan A. Wray , Timothy A. Sandstrom

The continuous high spatial-resolution Doppler observation of the Sun by Solar Dynamics Observatory / Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager allows us to compute helioseismic k-omega power-spectrum diagram using only oscillations inside a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Junwei Zhao , Dean-Yi Chou