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The Sun's polar magnetic fields are directly related to solar cycle variability. The strength of the polar fields at the start (minimum) of a cycle determine the subsequent amplitude of that cycle. In addition, the polar field reversals at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-01 Lisa Upton , David H. Hathaway

North-south asymmetry of sunspot activity resulted in an asynchronous reversal of the Sun's polar fields in the current cycle. The asymmetry is also observed in the formation of polar coronal holes. A stable coronal hole was first formed at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-10 Elena Golubeva , Alexander Mordvinov

Synoptic magnetograms and relevant proxy data were analyzed to study the evolution of the Sun's polar magnetic fields. Time-latitude analysis of large-scale magnetic fields demonstrates cyclic changes in their zonal structure and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 A. V. Mordvinov , L. L. Kitchatinov

Solar flares are driven by release of free magnetic energy and often associated with restructurization of the magnetic field topology. Yet, observations of evolving magnetic field in the flaring volume are limited to very few cases…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 Gregory D. Fleishman , Tatyana Kaltman , Sijie Yu

The solar active region photospheric magnetic field evolves rapidly during major eruptive events, suggesting appreciable feedback from the corona. Previous studies of these "magnetic imprints" are mostly based on line-of-sight only or…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 Xudong Sun , J. Todd Hoeksema , Yang Liu , Maria Kazachenko , Ruizhu Chen

Normal modes of oscillation of the Sun are useful probes of the solar interior. In this work, we use the even-order splitting coefficients to study the evolution of magnetic fields in the convection zone over solar cycle 23, assuming that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Charles S. Baldner , H. M. Antia , Sarbani Basu , T. P. Larson

A statistical study is carried out on the photospheric magnetic nonpotentiality in solar active regions and its relationship with associated flares. We select 2173 photospheric vector magnetograms from 1106 active regions observed by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-10 Xiao Yang , HongQi Zhang , Yu Gao , Juan Guo , GangHua Lin

The Sun's polar magnetic fields change their polarity near the maximum of sunspot activity. We analyzed the polarity reversal epochs in Solar Cycles 21 to 24. There was a triple reversal in the N-hemisphere in Solar Cycle 24 and single…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 Mykola I. Pishkalo

It is well accepted that the solar cycle originates from a magnetohydrodynamics dynamo deep inside the Sun. Many dynamo models have long been proposed based on a lot of observational constraints. In this paper, using 342 NSO/Kitt Peak solar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 W. B. Song

The structure of electric current and magnetic helicity in the solar corona is closely linked to solar activity over the 11-year cycle, yet is poorly understood. As an alternative to traditional current-free "potential field"…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. R. Yeates , J. A. Constable , P. C. H. Martens

Using magnetic and microwave butterfly diagrams, we compare the behavior of solar polar regions to show that (i) the polar magnetic field and the microwave brightness temperature during the solar minimum substantially diminished during the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 N. Gopalswamy , S. Yashiro , P. Mäkelä , G. Michalek , K. Shibasaki , D. H. Hathaway

The solar active region (AR) 12192 was one of the most flare productive region of solar cycle 24, which produced many X-class flares; the most energetic being an X3.1 flare on October 24, 2014 at 21:10 UT. Customarily, such events are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 A. Prasad , R. Bhattacharyya , Q. Hu , S. S. Nayak , Sanjay Kumar

Based on data obtained from Wilcox Solar Observatiry the solar polar magnetic fields reversals in cycles 21\,--\,25 were considered. The results indicate that the polarity reversal occurs at the maximum of sunspot activity of each cycle,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 Irina A. Bilenko

Detailed study of the solar magnetic field is crucial to understand its generation, transport and reversals. The timing of the reversals may have implications on space weather and thus identification of the temporal behavior of the critical…

The solar magnetic structure changes over the solar cycle. It has a dipole structure during solar minimum, where the open flux extends mainly from the polar regions into the interplanetary space. During maximum, a complex structure is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Minami Yoshida , Toshifumi Shimizu , Shin Toriumi

Polarity imbalance of the photospheric magnetic field was studied using synoptic maps of NSO Kitt Peak (1976-2016). Imbalance of positive and negative fluxes was considered for the fields with strength B>50 G in the sunspot zone (5 deg - 40…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 E. S. Vernova , M. I. Tyasto , D. G. Baranov , O. A. Danilova

The magnetic field permeating the solar atmosphere is generally thought to provide the energy for much of the activity seen in the solar corona, such as flares, coronal mass ejections (CMEs), etc. To overcome the unavailability of coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Tilaye Tadesse , T. Wiegelmann , S. Gosain , P. MacNeice , Alexei A. Pevtsov

Rotation of the large scale solar magnetic field has a great importance for the understanding of solar dynamic, for the search of longitidinal structure and for the study of solar-terrestrial relations. 30-year long observations taken at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-08 E. A. Gavryuseva

Given a known radial magnetic field distribution on the Sun's photospheric surface, there exist well-established methods for computing a potential magnetic field in the corona above. Such potential fields are routinely used as input to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Oliver E. K. Rice , Anthony R. Yeates

Coronal and chromospheric magnetic fields are derived from polarization and spectral observations of the thermal free-free emission using the Nobeyama Radioheliograph (NoRH). In magnetized plasma, the ordinary and extraordinary modes of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Kazumasa Iwai , Kiyoto Shibasaki