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We study the properties and geoeffectiveness of solar wind high-speed streams (HSSs) emanating from coronal holes and associated with stream interaction regions (SIRs). This paper presents a statistical study of 588 SIR/HSS events with…

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Ring diagram analysis of solar oscillation power spectra obtained from MDI data is performed to study the velocity fields within the solar convection zone. The three dimensional power spectra are fitted to a model with a Lorentzian profile…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sarbani Basu , H. M. Antia , S. C. Tripathy

An evolving turbulent flow such as the solar wind can be meaningfully characterized by its "turbulence age" -- an estimate of the number of nonlinear times that have elapsed during a plasma parcel's propagation from the Sun to a given point…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-30 Rohit Chhiber , Yanwen Wang , Arcadi V. Usmanov , William H. Matthaeus

The observed solar photospheric magnetic fields and Doppler velocities are frequently used to quantify the Poynting flux and helicity flux. Multiple methods have been developed for this purpose, but their estimates of the Poynting flux and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-20 Jiayi Liu , Xudong Sun , Peter W. Schuck , Lars K. S. Daldorff

Our basic theoretical understanding of the sources of cosmic rays and their propagation through the interstellar medium is hindered by the Sun, that through the solar wind affects the observed cosmic-ray spectra. This effect is known as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Ilias Cholis , Ian McKinnon

In the present work we utilize ACE/SWICS in-situ measurements of the properties of the solar wind outside ICMEs in order to determine whether, and to what extent are the solar wind properties affected by the solar cycle. We focus on proton…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-17 A. Cardenas-O'Toole , E. Landi

We introduce an updated, time-dependent treatment to the split-tail ("croissant-like") heliosphere model with data-driven solar wind conditions at 1 au, to study the evolution of the heliosphere with solar-cycle variations in plasma speed,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-20 Chika Onubogu , M. Opher , E. Powell , S. Du , J. M. Sokół , J. D. Richardson , B. Van Der Holst

We propose a novel approach to reconstruct the surface magnetic helicity density on the Sun or sun-like stars. The magnetic vector potential is determined via decomposition of vector magnetic field measurements into toroidal and poloidal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 Valery V. Pipin , Alexei A. Pevtsov , Yang Liu , Alexander G. Kosovichev

We study the sensitivity of wave travel times to steady and spatially homogeneous horizontal flows added to a realistic simulation of the solar convection performed by Robert F. Stein, Ake Nordlund, Dali Georgobiani, and David Benson. Three…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Couvidat , A. C. Birch

The solar wind is a dynamic plasma outflow that shapes heliospheric conditions and drives space weather. Identifying its large-scale phenomena is crucial, yet the increasing volume of high-cadence Parker Solar Probe (PSP) observations poses…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 Valmir P Moraes Filho , Daniela Martin , Jasmine R. Kobayashi , Connor O'Brien , Jinsu Hong , Evangelia Samara , Joseph Gallego

We want to study the connections between the magnetic field generated inside the Sun and the solar wind impacting Earth, especially the influence of north-south asymmetry on the magnetic and velocity fields. We study a solar-like 11-year…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-11 Barbara Perri , Allan Sacha Brun , Victor Réville , Antoine Strugarek

It has long been known that the energy in velocity and magnetic field fluctuations in the solar wind is not in equipartition. In this paper, we present an analysis of 5 years of Wind data at 1 AU to investigate the reason for this. The…

Space Physics · Physics 2013-06-10 C. H. K. Chen , S. D. Bale , C. S. Salem , B. A. Maruca

Observation of Interplanetary Scintillation (IPS) provides an important and effective way to study the solar wind and the space weather. A series of IPS observations were conducted by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 Li-Jia Liu , Bo Peng , Lei Yu , Bin Liu , Ji-Guang Lu , Ye-Zhao Yu , Hong-Wei Xi , Ming Xiong , O. Chang

To study the variations in the solar wind velocity during inferior conjunctions of Mercury and Earth, we analyzed 54 events in the period 1995 to 2012 by the superimposed epoch method. We have found a noticeable increase in the velocity…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Igor F. Nikulin

We suggest a method that evaluates the horizontal velocity in the solar photosphere with easily observable values using a combination of neural network and radiative magnetohydrodynamics simulations. All three-component velocities of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-06 Hiroyuki Masaki , Hideyuki Hotta , Yukio Katsukawa , Ryohtaroh T. Ishikawa

Direct observations of solar wind are mostly limited to the vicinity of the ecliptic plane. Retrieving the latitudinal structure of solar wind indirectly based on observations of the backscatter glow of interstellar neutral hydrogen is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-14 Izabela Kowalska-Leszczynska , Marzena A. Kubiak , Maciej Bzowski , Marek Strumik

Helioseismic signatures of dynamo waves have recently been discovered in variations of the solar differential rotation, offering valuable insights into the type of dynamo mechanism operating in the solar convection zone. To characterize…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-19 Krishnendu Mandal , Alexander G. Kosovichev , Valery V. Pipin , Sylvain G. Korzennik

We use magnetograms of 8 solar analogues of ages 30~Myr to 3.6~Gyr obtained from Zeeman Doppler Imaging (ZDI) and taken from the literature, together with two solar magnetograms, to drive magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) wind simulations and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 Quentin Pognan , Cecilia Garraffo , Ofer Cohen , Jeremy J. Drake

We update the SOHO/SWAN H Lyman-alpha brightness analysis to cover the 1996-2008 time interval. A forward model applied to the intensity maps provides the latitude and time dependence of the interstellar Hydrogen ionisation rate over more…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-23 Rosine Lallement , Eric Quemerais , Philippe Lamy , Jean-Loup Bertaux , Stephane Ferron , Walter Schmidt

The recently released spacecraft potential measured by the RPW instrument on-board Solar Orbiter has been used to estimate the solar wind electron density in the inner heliosphere. Solar-wind electron density measured during June 2020 has…