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Magnetic flux emergence and decay in the Sun span from days to months. However, their tracking is typically limited to about half a solar rotation when relying on single-vantage-point observations. Combining observations from both the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 I. Kontogiannis , Y. Zhu , K. Barczynski , M. Z. Stiefel , H. Collier , J. McKevitt , J. S. Castellanos Durán , S. Berdyugina , L. K. Harra

We examine the hypothesis that multipolar magnetic fields advected by photospheric granules can contribute heating to the active chromosphere and corona. On 28 September 2020 the GRIS and HiFI+ instruments at the GREGOR telescope obtained…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-14 Philip Judge , Lucia Kleint , Christoph Kuckein

Frequency splitting coefficients from Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG) and Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) observations covering the period 1995--2001 are used to study temporal variations in the solar rotation rate at high latitudes.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. M. Antia , Sarbani Basu

The solar atmosphere being magnetic in nature, the understanding of the structure and evolution of the magnetic field in different regions of the solar atmosphere has been an important task over the past decades. This task has been made…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 S. Regnier

We model the surface magnetic field and open flux of the Sun from 1913 to 1986 using a surface flux transport model, which includes the observed cycle-to-cycle variation of sunspot group tilts. The model reproduces the empirically derived…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 R. H. Cameron , J. Jiang , D. Schmitt , M. Schüssler

We have been monitoring yearly variation in the Sun's polar magnetic fields with the Solar Optical Telescope aboard {\it Hinode} to record their evolution and expected reversal near the solar maximum. All magnetic patches in the magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 D. Shiota , S. Tsuneta , M. Shimojo , N. Sako , D. Orozco Suárez , R. Ishikawa

Solar chromosphere and coronal heating is a big question for astrophysics. Daily measurement of 985 solar spectral irradiances (SSIs) at the spectral intervals 1-39 nm and 116-2416 nm during March 1 2003 to October 28 2017 is utilized to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 K. J. Li , J. C. Xu , W. Feng

Magnetic free energy powers solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), and the buildup of magnetic helicity might play a role in the development of unstable structures that subsequently erupt. To better understand the roles of energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-21 Yang Liu , Brian T. Welsch , Gherardo Valori , Manolis K. Georgoulis , Yang Guo , Etienne Pariat , Sung-Hong Park , Julia K. Thalmann

Among many other measurable quantities the summer of 2009 saw a considerable low in the radiative output of the Sun that was temporally coincident with the largest cosmic ray flux ever measured at 1AU. A hemispheric asymmetry in magnetic…

We report observations of a steady 20 year decline of solar photospheric fields at latitudes $\geq$45${^{o}}$ starting from $\sim$1995. This prolonged and continuing decline, combined with the fact that Cycle 24 is already past its peak,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 P. Janardhan , Susanta Kumar Bisoi , S. Ananthakrishnan , M. Tokumaru , K. Fujiki , L. Jose , R. Sridharan

This publication provides an overview of magnetic fields in the solar atmosphere with the focus lying on the corona. The solar magnetic field couples the solar interior with the visible surface of the Sun and with its atmosphere. It is also…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Thomas Wiegelmann , Julia K. Thalmann , Sami K. Solanki

We have used semi-synthetic records of emerging sunspot groups based on sunspot number data as input for a surface flux transport model to reconstruct the evolution of the large-scale solar magnetic field and the open heliospheric flux from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jie Jiang , Robert H. Cameron , Dieter Schmitt , M. Schuessler

Solar eruptions are explosive release of coronal magnetic field energy as manifested in solar flares and coronal mass ejection. Observations have shown that the core of eruption-productive regions are often a sheared magnetic arcade, i.e.,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Xinkai Bian , Chaowei Jiang , Xueshang Feng , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang , Xinyi Wang

The behaviour of the large-scale dipolar field, during a star's magnetic cycle, can provide valuable insight into the stellar dynamo and associated magnetic field manifestations such as stellar winds. We investigate the temporal evolution…

A statistical survey of 26 major electron events during the period 2002 February through the end of solar cycle 23 is presented. We have obtained electron solar onset times and the peak flux spectra for each event by fitting to a powerlaw…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-27 C. Li , C. J. Owen , S. A. Matthews , Y. Dai , Y. H. Tang

Rotation is a significant characteristic of the Sun and other stars, and it plays an important role in understanding their dynamo actions and magnetic activities. In this study, the rotation of the solar chromospheric activity is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-22 Jing-Chen Xu , Peng-Xin Gao , Xiang-Jun Shi

In addition to sunspots, which represent the most easily visualized manifestation of solar magnetism, cutting-edge observations of the solar atmosphere have uncovered a plethora of magnetic flux tubes, down to the resolving power of modern…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-27 M. Stangalini , G. Verth , V. Fedun , D. Perrone , M. Berretti , P. Bushby , S. Jafarzadeh , D. B. Jess , F. Giannattasio , P. H. Keys , R. Bruno , F. Berrilli

We analyze intermediate degree p-mode eigenfrequencies measured by GONG and MDI/SOHO over a solar cycle to study the source of their variability. We carry out a correlation analysis between the change in frequencies and several measures of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Kiran Jain , S. C. Tripathy , F. Hill

The Sun is replete with magnetic fields, with sunspots, pores and plage regions being their most prominent representatives on the solar surface. But even far away from these active regions, magnetic fields are ubiquitous. To a large extent,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-05 Andreas Lagg , Bruce Lites , Jack Harvey , Sanjay Gosain , Rebecca Centeno

Aims. Working towards improved space weather predictions, we aim to quantify how the critical height at which the torus instability drives coronal mass ejections (CMEs) varies over time in a sample of solar active regions. Methods. We model…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Alexander W. James , David R. Williams , Jennifer O'Kane