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The activity-related variations in the solar acoustic frequencies have been known for 30 years. However, the importance of the different contributions is still not well established. With this in mind, we developed an empirical model to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 A. R. G. Santos , M. S. Cunha , P. P. Avelino , W. J. Chaplin , T. L. Campante

The rotational evolution of cool stars is governed by magnetised stellar winds which slow the stellar rotation during their main sequence lifetimes. Magnetic variability is commonly observed in Sun-like stars, and the changing strength and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 Adam J. Finley , Sean P. Matt , Victor See

Magnetic cycles of solar-like stars influence their internal physics. Thus, the frequency, amplitude, excitation rate, and damping of the acoustic oscillation modes (p-modes) vary with the cycle over time. We need to understand the impact…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-08 E. Panetier , S. N. Breton , R. A. García , A. Jiménez , T. Foglizzo

Waves connect all the layers of the Sun, from its interior to the upper atmosphere. It is becoming clear now the important role of magnetic field on the wave propagation. Magnetic field modifies propagation speed of waves, thus affecting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Elena Khomenko

The frequencies of the solar acoustic oscillations vary over the activity cycle. The variations in other activity proxies are found to be well correlated with the variations in the acoustic frequencies. However, each proxy has a slightly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 A. R. G. Santos , M. S. Cunha , P. P. Avelino , W. J. Chaplin , T. L. Campante

In solar-like stars, acoustic modes provide the main way of probing their internal structure and dynamics. Although these modes are expected to be ubiquitous in stars with convective envelopes, Kepler observations reveal that a significant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-30 Arthur Le Saux , Leïla Bessila , Stéphane Mathis

Context. The Sun and solar-like stars undergo activity cycles for which the underlying mechanisms are not well understood. The oscillations of the Sun are known to vary with its activity cycle and these changes provide diagnostics on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 René Kiefer , Ariane Schad , Guy Davies , Markus Roth

It is well known that the dominant frequency of oscillations in the solar photosphere is $\approx$3 mHz, which is the result of global resonant modes pertaining to the whole stellar structure. However, analyses of the horizontal motions of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-08 M. Berretti , M. Stangalini , G. Verth , S. Jafarzadeh , D. B. Jess , F. Berrilli , S. D. T. Grant , T. Duckenfield , V. Fedun

We have studied solar cycle changes in the large frequency separations that can be observed in Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network (BiSON) data. The large frequency separation is often one of the first outputs from asteroseismic studies…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. -M. Broomhall , W. J. Chaplin , Y. Elsworth , R. New

The success of helioseismology is due to its capability to accurately measure the p-mode parameters of the solar eigenmode spectrum, which allow us to infer unique information about the internal structure and dynamics of the Sun. It also…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-14 D. Salabert

Recent high-resolution observations of sunspot oscillations using simultaneously operated ground- and space-based telescopes reveal the intrinsic connection between different layers of the solar atmosphere. However, it is not clear whether…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-13 S. Krishna Prasad , D. B. Jess , Elena Khomenko

The review addresses the spatial frequency morphology of sources of sunspot oscillations and waves, including their localization, size, oscillation periods, height localization with the mechanism of cut-off frequency that forms the observed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-09 Robert Sych

Although it is well known that the solar acoustic mode frequency increases as the solar activity increases, the mechanism behind it is still unknown. Mode frequencies with 20 < l < 900 obtained by applying spherical harmonic decomposition…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Cristina Rabello-Soares

Our knowledge of the dynamics of stars has undergone a revolution thanks to the simultaneous large amount of high-quality photometric observations collected by space-based asteroseismology and ground-based high-precision spectropolarimetry.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Stéphane Mathis , Lisa Bugnet , Vincent Prat , Kyle Augustson , Savita Mathur , Rafael A. Garcia

We derive formulae connecting the frequency variations in the spectrum of solar oscillations to the dynamical quantities that are expected to change over the solar activity cycle. This is done for both centroids and the asymmetric part of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. A. Dziembowski , P. R. Goode

We describe the presence of wavefront dislocations in magnetohydrodynamic waves in stratified stellar atmospheres. Scalar dislocations such as edges and vortices can appear in Alfv\'en waves, as well as in general magneto-acoustic waves. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 A. López Ariste , M. Collados , E. Khomenko

We analyze and interpret SOHO/MDI data on oscillation frequency changes between 1996 and 2004 focusing on differences between activity minimum and maximum of solar cycle 23. We study only the behavior of the centroid frequencies, which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. A. Dziembowski , P. R. Goode

During the last decade, our understanding of stellar physics and evolution has undergone a tremendous revolution thanks to asteroseismology. Space missions such as CoRoT, \kep, K2, and TESS have already been observing millions of stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-25 Savita Mathur

The variations of the frequencies of the low-degree acoustic oscillations in the Sun induced by magnetic activity show a dependence with radial order. The frequency shifts are observed to increase towards higher-order modes to reach a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 D. Salabert , C. Régulo , F. Pérez Hernández , R. A. García

Successful inference from asteroseismology relies on at least two things: that the oscillations in the stars have amplitudes large enough to be clearly observable; and that the oscillations themselves be stable enough to enable precise…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 W. J. Chaplin , G. Houdek , C. Karoff , Y. Elsworth , R. New