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Being able to image active regions on the Sun's far side is useful for modeling the global-scale magnetic field around the Sun, and for predicting the arrival of major active regions that rotate around the limb onto the near side.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Junwei Zhao , Dominick Hing , Ruizhu Chen , Shea Hess Webber

Previous studies analyzing the evanescent nature of acoustic waves in the lower solar atmosphere, up to 300\,km above the photosphere, have shown an unexpected phase shift of an order of 1\,s between different heights. Those studies…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 M. Waidele , Junwei Zhao , I. N. Kitiashvili

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is a technique widely used in geophysics to obtain high-resolution subsurface velocity models from waveform seismic data. Due to its large computation cost, most flavors of FWI rely only on the computation of…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-03-27 Mustafa Alfarhan , Matteo Ravasi , Fuqiang Chen , Tariq Alkhalifah

We analyze a solar active region observed by the Hinode CaII H line using the time-distance helioseismology technique, and infer wave-speed perturbation structures and flow fields beneath the active region with a high spatial resolution.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Junwei Zhao , Alexander G. Kosovichev , Takashi Sekii

Extracting subsurface velocity information from seismic data is mainly an undetermined problem that requires injecting a priori information to constrain the inversion process. Machine learning has offered a platform to do so through the…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-10-03 Xiao Ma , Shaowen Wang , Tariq Alkhalifah

Context. The spatial power spectrum of supergranulation does not fully characterize the underlying physics of turbulent convection. For example, it does not describe the non-Gaussianity in the horizontal flow divergence. Aims. Our aim is to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-01 Vincent G. A. Böning , Aaron C. Birch , Laurent Gizon , Thomas L. Duvall , Jesper Schou

In micro-seismic event measurements, pinpointing the passive source's exact spatial and temporal location is paramount. This research advocates for the combined use of both P- and S-wave data, captured by geophone monitoring systems, to…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-10-20 Hanchen Wang , Qiang Guo , Tariq Alkhalifah

Full-waveform inversion problems are usually formulated as optimization problems, where the forward-wave propagation operator $f$ maps the subsurface velocity structures to seismic signals. The existing computational methods for solving…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-07 Yue Wu , Youzuo Lin

When modeling global satellite data to recover a planetary magnetic or gravitational potential field and evaluate it elsewhere, the method of choice remains their analysis in terms of spherical harmonics. When only regional data are…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-10-11 Alain Plattner , Frederik J. Simons

Solar inertial modes have the potential to surpass the diagnostic capabilities of acoustic waves in probing the deep interior of the Sun. The fulfillment of this potential requires an accurate identification and characterization of these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-20 Chris S. Hanson , Vivek Menon , Shravan Hanasoge , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Various methods of helioseismology are used to study the subsurface properties of the sunspot in NOAA Active Region 9787. This sunspot was chosen because it is axisymmetric, shows little evolution during 20-28 January 2002, and was observed…

In this paper we refine a previously developed acoustic-source filter (Bahauddin & Rast 2021), improving its reliability and extending its capabilities. We demonstrate how to fine-tune the filter to meet observational constraints and to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-18 Shah Mohammad Bahauddin , Mark Peter Rast

A nonlinear optimization method is proposed for the solution of inverse medium problems with spatially varying properties. To avoid the prohibitively large number of unknown control variables resulting from standard grid-based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Yannik G. Gleichmann , Marcus J. Grote

Conventional frequency-domain full-waveform inversion (FWI) is typically implemented with an $L^2$ misfit function, which suffers from challenges such as cycle skipping and sensitivity to noise. While the Wasserstein metric has proven…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Zhijun Zeng , Matej Neumann , Yunan Yang

We present a multiscale approach for identifying features in ocean beds by solving inverse problems in high frequency seafloor acoustics. The setting is based on Sound Navigation And Ranging (SONAR) imaging used in scientific, commercial,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Bjorn Engquist , Christina Frederick , Quyen Huynh , Haomin Zhou

The analysis of waves in the visible side of the Sun allows the detection of active regions in the farside through local helioseismology techniques. The knowledge of the magnetism in the whole Sun, including the non-visible hemisphere, is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-04 T. Felipe , A. Asensio Ramos

In time-distance helioseismology, the time signals (Doppler shifts) at two points on the solar surface, separated by a fixed angular distance are cross-correlated, and this leads to a wave packet signal. Accurately measuring the travel…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 R. Nigam , A. G. Kosovichev , P. H. Scherrer

Context. Far-side helioseismology is a technique used to infer the presence of active regions in the far hemisphere of the Sun based on the interpretation of oscillations measured in the near hemisphere. A neural network has been recently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-25 E. G. Broock , T. Felipe , A. Asensio Ramos

In time-distance helioseismology, information about the solar interior is encoded in measurements of travel times between pairs of points on the solar surface. Travel times are deduced from the cross-covariance of the random wave field.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-05 Damien Fournier , Laurent Gizon , Thorsten Hohage , Aaron C. Birch

Instabilities described by linear theory characterize an important form of wave-particle interaction in the solar wind. We diagnose unstable behavior of solar wind plasma between 0.3 and 1 au via the Nyquist criterion, applying it to fits…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Mihailo M. Martinovic , Kristopher G. Klein , Tereza Durovcova , Benjamin L. Alterman