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Solar oscillations consist of a rich spectrum of internal acoustic waves and surface gravity waves, stochastically excited by turbulent convection. They have been monitored almost continuously over the last ten years with high-precision…

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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…

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Adiabatic oscillation frequencies of stellar models, computed with the standard mixing-length formulation for convection, increasingly deviate with radial order from observations in solar-like stars. Standard solar models overestimate…

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Solar wind back-mapping is a combination of ballistic mapping and magnetic mapping. By examining the different model ingredients that can affect the derived back-mapped position, we aim to provide a more precise estimate of the source…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-12 Alexandros Koukras , Laurent Dolla , Rony Keppens

Asteroseismic inferences of main-sequence solar-like oscillators often rely on best-fit models. However, these models cannot fully reproduce the observed mode frequencies, suggesting that the internal structure of the model does not fully…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Lynn Buchele , Earl P. Bellinger , Saskia Hekker , Sarbani Basu

The universe is expected to be permeated by a stochastic background of gravitational radiation of astrophysical and cosmological origin. This background is capable of exciting oscillations in solar-like stars. Here we show that solar-like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-01 Daniel M. Siegel , Markus Roth

Context. Acoustic waves in the Sun are affected by the atmospheric layers, but this region is often ignored in forward models due to the increase in computational cost. Aims. The purpose of this work is to take into account the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Damien Fournier , Janosch Preuss , Thorsten Hohage , Laurent Gizon

The chemical composition of the Sun is requested in the context of various studies in astrophysics, among them in the calculation of the standard solar models (SSMs), which describe the evolution of the Sun from the pre-main-sequence to its…

We investigate systematic uncertainties in determining the profiles of the solar sound speed, density, and adiabatic index by helioseismological techniques. We find that rms uncertainties-averaged over the sun of ~ 0.2%-0.4% are contributed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Sarbani Basu , M. H. Pinsonneault , John N. Bahcall

We analyze spectral properties of solar convection in the range of depths from 0 to 19~Mm using subsurface flow maps obtained by the time-distance heiioseismology analysis of solar-oscillation data from the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-01 Alexander V. Getling , Alexander G. Kosovichev

As the amount of asteroseismic data available continues to grow, the inability to accurately model observed oscillation frequencies is becoming a critical problem for interpreting these frequencies. A major component of this problem is the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 J. Schou , A. C. Birch

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

Helioseismology, the study of global solar oscillations, has proved to be an extremely powerful tool for the investigation of the internal structure and dynamics of the Sun. Studies of time changes in frequency observations of solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 M. P. Di Mauro

Gravity modes are the best probes to infer the properties of the solar radiative zone that represents 98% of the Sun's total mass. It is usually assumed that high-frequency g modes give information about the structure of the solar interior…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-01 R. A. Garcia , S. Mathur , J. Ballot

In this paper we first give a brief review of the variable cosmological constant model and its scalar field description. We mainly discuss two types of variable cosmological constant models: $a$ power law and $H$ power law models. A method…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Yin-Zhe Ma

(abridged) Context: Solar-like differential rotation is characterized by a rapidly rotating equator and slower poles. However, theoretical models and numerical simulations can result in a slower equator and faster poles when the rotation is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-17 P. J. Käpylä , M. J. Käpylä , A. Brandenburg

The last decade has seen a rapid development in asteroseismology thanks to the CoRoT and Kepler missions. With more detailed asteroseismic observations available, it is becoming possible to infer exactly how oscillations are driven and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-03 Yixiao Zhou , Martin Asplund , Remo Collet , Meridith Joyce

A large-scale spanwise and wall-normal array of sonic anemometers in the atmospheric surface layer is used to acquire all three components of instantaneous fluctuating velocity as well as temperature in a range of stability conditions.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-08 Xuebo Li , Nicholas Hutchins , Xiaojing Zheng , Ivan Marusic , Woutijn J. Baars

Solar chromosphere consists of a partially ionized plasma, which makes modeling the solar chromosphere a particularly challenging numerical task. Here we numerically model chromospheric waves using a two-fluid approach with a newly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 B. Popescu Braileanu , V. S. Lukin , E. Khomenko , A. de Vicente

During the solar minimum STEREO observations show that the three-dimensional structure of the solar corona can be described well by a tilted bi-polar magnetic configuration. The slow solar wind is modeled using three-fluid model that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-28 Leon Ofman , Maxim Kramar