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We analyze and model total solar irradiance variability on time scales from minutes to months, excluding variations due to p-mode oscillations, using a combination of convective and magnetic components. These include granulation, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-11 Andrey D. Seleznyov , Sami K. Solanki , Natalie A. Krivova

The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO/HMI) provides continuous full-disk observations of solar oscillations. We develop a data-analysis pipeline based on the time-distance helioseismology method to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 J. Zhao , S. Couvidat , R. S. Bogart , K. V. Parchevsky , A. C. Birch , T. L. Duvall , J. G. Beck , A. G. Kosovichev , P. H. Scherrer

We propose a useful method for mapping large-scale velocity fields in the solar photosphere. It is based on the local correlation tracking algorithm when tracing supergranules in full-disc dopplergrams. The method was developed using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Svanda , M. Klvana , M. Sobotka

Using data from the Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) instrument on board the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), we study the large-scale velocity fields in the outer part of the solar convection zone using the ring diagram technique.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Sarbani Basu , H. M. Antia

Exploding granules constitute the strongest horizontal flows on the quiet Sun and contribute to the structure of the surface horizontal velocity fields which build the large-scale organization of the discrete magnetic field. In this work we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-09 T. Roudier , J. M. Malherbe , B. Gelly , R. Douet , Z. Frank , K. Dalmasse

Solar supergranulation plays an important role in generating and structuring the solar magnetic field and as a mechanism responsible for the 11-year solar cycle. It is clearly detected within SOHO/MDI Dopplergrams, from which a variety of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-07 P. E. Williams , W. D. Pesnell

The operation of the solar global dynamo appears to involve many dynamical elements. Self-consistent MHD simulations which realistically incorporate all of these processes are not yet computationally feasible, though some elements can now…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Allan Sacha Brun , Mark S. Miesch , Juri Toomre

As large--distance rays (say, 10\,-\,$24 ^\circ$) approach the solar surface approximately vertically, travel times measured from surface pairs for these large separations are mostly sensitive to vertical flows, at least for shallow flows…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Thomas L. Duvall, , Shravan M. Hanasoge

The Sun is a magnetic star, and the only spatio-temporally resolved astrophysical system displaying turbulent MHD thermal convection. This makes it a privileged object of study to understand fluid turbulence in extreme regimes and its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-16 F. Rincon , P. Barrère , T. Roudier

We studied the solar surface flows (differential rotation and meridional circulation) using a magnetic element feature tracking technique by which the surface velocity is obtained using magnetic field data. We used the line-of-sight…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Shinsuke Imada , Masashi Fujiyama

We model the solar horizontal velocity power spectrum at scales larger than granulation using a two-component approximation to the mass continuity equation. The model takes four times the density scale height as the integral (driving) scale…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 J. W. Lord , R. H. Cameron , M. P. Rast , M. Rempel , T. Roudier

Granules observed in solar photosphere are believed to be convective and turbulent, but the physical picture of granular dynamical process remains unclear. Here we performed an investigation of granular dynamical motions of full length…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Liu Yanxiao , Jiang Chaowei , Yuan Ding , Zuo Pingbing , Wang Yi , Cao Wenda

Large-scale plasma flows in the Sun's convection zone likely play a major role in solar dynamics on decadal timescales. In particular, quantifying meridional motions is a critical ingredient for understanding the solar cycle and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Shukur Kholikov , Alexander Serebryanskiy , Jason Jackiewicz

Hydrodynamic simulations of granular convection predict the existence of supersonic flows covering ~3-4% of the solar surface at any time, but these flows have not been detected unambigously as yet. Using data from the spectropolarimeter…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 L. R. Bellot Rubio

Long (up to 100 hours) time series of SOHO/MDI Doppler data are analyzed. The power spectrum of radial velocity time series in the quiet photosphere is observed to have, along with the known 5-min mode, a stable strong mode with a period of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-08 L. D. Parfinenko , V. I. Efremov , A. A. Solovev

Time-distance helioseismology is one of the primary tools for studying the solar meridional circulation. However, travel-time measurements of the subsurface meridional flow suffer from a variety of systematic errors, such as a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 Zhi-Chao Liang , Aaron C. Birch , Thomas L. Duvall , Laurent Gizon , Jesper Schou

Observations of quiet Sun from the Solar Optical Telescope/Spectro-Polarimeter (SOT/SP) aboard the Hinode spacecraft would reveal the magnetic characters of the solar photosphere. By making use of the deep mode observations of three quiet…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Chunlan Jin , Jingxiu Wang , Meng Zhao

Supergranules are divergent 30-Mm sized cellular flows observed everywhere at the solar photosphere. Their place in the hierarchy of convective structures and their origin remain poorly understood (Rincon et al., 2018). Estimating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Vedant Dhruv , Jishnu Bhattacharya , Shravan Hanasoge

The study of spatial and temporal scales on which small magnetic structures (magnetic elements) are organized in the quiet Sun may be approached by determining how they are transported on the solar photosphere by convective motions. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 F. Giannattasio , D. Del Moro , F. Berrilli , L. Bellot Rubio , M. Gosic , D. Orozco Suarez

Observations from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) have the potential for allowing the helioseismic study of the formation of hundreds of active regions, which would enable us to perform statistical analyses. Our goal is to collate a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-08 H. Schunker , D. C. Braun , A. C. Birch , R. B. Burston , L. Gizon