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The aim of this article is to study how the differential rotation of solar-like stars is influenced by rotation rate and mass in presence of magnetic fields generated by a convective dynamo. We use the ASH code to model the convective…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 J. Varela , A. Strugarek , A. S. Brun

We reanalyse the measurements of parallax, proper motion, and line-of-sight velocity for 18 masers in high mass star-forming regions presented by Reid et al. (2009). We use a likelihood analysis to investigate the distance of the Sun from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Paul J. McMillan , James J. Binney

The striking similarity between the cyclic equatorward migration of the torsional oscillation belts and the sunspot activity latitudes inspired several attempts to seek an explanation of the torsional phenomenon in terms of interactions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-10 J. Muraközy , A. Ludmány

We utilize observations from the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) to study the radial evolution of the solar wind in the inner heliosphere. We analyze electron velocity distribution functions observed by the Solar Wind Electrons, Alphas, and…

Large-scale velocity fields in the solar photosphere remain a mystery in spite of many years of intensive studies. In this thesis, the new method of the measurements of the solar photospheric flow fields is proposed. It is based on local…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-13 Michal Svanda

The sunspot groups have been observed since 1610 and their numbers have been used for evaluating the amplitude of solar activity. Daniel M\"ogling recorded his sunspot observations for more than 100 days in 1626 - 1629 and formed a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-09 Hisashi Hayakawa , Tomoya Iju , Koji Murata , Bruno P. Besser

Linear time-distance helioseismic inversions are carried out using several filtering schemes to determine vector flow velocities within two $\sim100^2\,{\rm Mm^2}\times 20\,{\rm Mm}$ realistic magnetohydrodynamic sunspot simulations of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 K. DeGrave , J. Jackiewicz , M. Rempel

The solar wind, a stream of charged particles originating from the Sun and transcending interplanetary space, poses risks to technology and astronauts. In this work, we develop a prediction model to forecast the solar wind speed at the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Daniel Collin , Yuri Shprits , Stefan J. Hofmeister , Stefano Bianco , Guillermo Gallego

Modeling the rotation history of solar-type stars is still an unsolved problem in modern astrophysics. One of the main challenges is to explain the dispersion in the distribution of stellar rotation rate for young stars. Previous works have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Nicolas Leprovost , Eun-Jin Kim

Geomagnetic activity has two main peaks in the 11-year sunspot cycle caused by two types of solar agents: coronal mass ejections and high speed solar wind streams, whose variations in number and intensity are related to the variations in…

Space Physics · Physics 2007-12-20 K. Georgieva , B. Kirov

Vortex-type motions have been measured by tracking bright points in high-resolution observations of the solar photosphere. These small-scale motions are thought to be determinant in the evolution of magnetic footpoints and their interaction…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 L. Balmaceda , S. Vargas Domínguez , J. Palacios , I. Cabello , V. Domingo

We have carried out inversions of travel times as measured by Gizon et al. (2020) to infer the internal profile of the solar meridional circulation (MC). A linear inverse problem has been solved by the regularized least-squares method with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-19 Yoshiki Hatta , Hideyuki Hotta , Takashi Sekii

Rotation evolution of late-type stars is dominated by magnetic braking and the underlying factors that control this angular momentum loss are important for the study of stellar spin-down. In this work, we study angular momentum loss as a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 Cecilia Garraffo , Jeremy J. Drake , Ofer Cohen

Clumps in the solar neighborhood's stellar velocity distribution could be caused by spiral density waves. In the solar neighborhood, stellar velocities corresponding to orbits that are nearly closed in the frame rotating with a spiral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. C. Quillen , Ivan Minchev

Context: The Sun's polar fields and open flux around the time of activity minima have been considered to be strongly correlated with the strength of the subsequent maximum of solar activity. Aims: We aim to investigate the behavior of a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 J. Jiang , R. H. Cameron , D. Schmitt , E. Isik

Context. An analysis of the oscillations above sunspots was carried out using simultaneous ground-based and Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) observations (SiI 10827A, HeI 10830A, FeI 6173A, 1700A, HeII 304A, FeIX 171A). Aims. Investigation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-25 N. I. Kobanov , A. A. Chelpanov , D. Y. Kolobov

Context: Supergranulation is a pattern of the velocity field at the surface of the Sun, which has been known about for more than fifty years, however, no satisfactory explanation of its origin has been proposed. Aims: New observational…

The solar-wind energy flux measured near the ecliptic is known to be independent of the solar-wind speed. Using plasma data from Helios, Ulysses, and Wind covering a large range of latitudes and time, we show that the solar-wind energy flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 G. Le Chat , K. Issautier , N. Meyer-Vernet

Aims: We study the acceleration of the stellar winds of rapidly rotating low mass stars and the transition between the slow magnetic rotator and fast magnetic rotator regimes. We aim to understand the properties of stellar winds in the fast…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 C. P. Johnstone

We present a seismological method to probe the solar atmosphere above sunspot umbrae with three-minute oscillations. Our technique allows us to estimate both the vertical distance between atmospheric layers and the wave-propagation speed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 A. S. Deres , S. A. Anfinogentov
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