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Understanding effects driven by rotation in the solar convection zone is essential for many problems related to solar activity, such as the formation of differential rotation, meridional circulation, and others. We analyze realistic 3D…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-23 Irina N. Kitiashvili , Alexander G. Kosovichev , Alan A. Wray , Viacheslav M. Sadykov , Gustavo Guerrero

Magnetic helicity is a key geometrical parameter to describe the structure and evolution of solar coronal magnetic fields. The accumulation of magnetic helicity is correlated with the non-potential magnetic field energy, which is released…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-25 Shangbin Yang , Suo Liu , Jiangtao Su , Yuanyong Deng

Comprehending the manner in which magnetic fields affect propagating waves is a first step toward constructing accurate helioseismic models of active region sub-surface structure and dynamics. Here, we present a numerical method to compute…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shravan M. Hanasoge

Observations of the solar surface reveal the presence of flows with length scales of around $35$ Mm, commonly referred to as supergranules. Inferring the sub-surface flow profile of supergranules from measurements of the surface and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 Jishnu Bhattacharya , Shravan M. Hanasoge

This first paper in a series describes the design of a study testing whether pre-appearance signatures of solar magnetic active regions were detectable using various tools of local helioseismology. The ultimate goal is to understand…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-07 K. D. Leka , G. Barnes , A. C. Birch , I. Gonzalez-Hernandez , T. Dunn , B. Javornik , D. C. Braun

Sequences of line-of-sight (LOS) magnetograms recorded by the Michelson-Doppler Imager are used to quantitatively characterize photospheric magnetic structure and evolution in three active regions that rotated across the Sun's disk during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 B. T. Welsch , S. Christe , J. M. McTiernan

Context: Solar sectoral Rossby waves have only recently been unambiguously identified in Helioseimsic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) and Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) maps of flows near the solar surface. So far this has not been done with the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Chris S. Hanson , Laurent Gizon , Zhi-Chao Liang

In this study, we report the use of digital holography microscopy (DHM) for 3D-resolved flow kinematics and shear rheometry of viscoelastic polymeric fluids. We computationally reconstruct the recorded holograms to visualize the tracer…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-03 Siddhartha Gupta , Siva A. Vanapalli

Solar flare above-the-loop-top (ALT) regions are vital for understanding solar eruptions and fundamental processes in plasma physics. Recent advances in 3D MHD simulations have revealed unprecedented details on turbulent flows and MHD…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 Xiaoyan Xie , Chengcai Shen , Katharine Reeves , Bin Chen , Xiaocan Li , Fan Guo , Sijie Yu , Yuqian Wei , Chuanfei Dong

We analyse the topology of photospheric magnetic fields and sub-photospheric flows of several active regions (ARs) that are observed during the peak to descending phase of the solar cycle 23. Our analysis shows clear evidence of hemispheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 R. A. Maurya , A. Ambastha

The Sun's internal rotation {\Omega}(r,{\Theta}) has previously been measured using helioseismology techniques and found to be a complex function of co-latitude, {\theta}, and radius, r. From helioseismology and observations of apparently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 Ian Cunnyngham , Marcelo Emilio , Jeff Kuhn , Isabelle Scholl , Rock Bush

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

Context. We compare solar differential rotation of subphotospheric layers derived from local helioseismology analysis of GONG++ dopplergrams and the one derived from tracing small bright coronal structures (SBCS) using EIT/SOHO images for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Amel Zaatri , Hubertus Woehl , Markus Roth , Thierry Corbard , Roman Brajsa

Photospheric horizontal velocity fields play essential roles in the formation and evolution of numerous solar activities. Various methods for estimating the horizontal velocity field have been proposed in the past. Aiming at the highest…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Quan Xie , Jiajia Liu , Robert Erdélyi , Yuming Wang

We analyze the effect of a sunspot in its quiet surroundings applying a helioseismic technique on almost three years of Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) observations obtained during solar cycle 24 to further study the sunspot…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 M. Cristina Rabello-Soares , Richard S. Bogart , Philip H. Scherrer

We perform radiative magnetohydrodynamic calculations for the solar quiet region to investigate the dependence of statistical flow on magnetic properties and the three-dimensional (3D) structure of magnetic patches in the presence of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 K. Takahata , H. Hotta , Y. Iida , T. Oba

Solar meridional circulation, which manifests as poleward flow near the surface, is a relatively weak flow. While meridional circulation has been measured through various local helioseismic techniques, there is a lack of consensus about the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-08 Samarth G. Kashyap , Shravan M. Hanasoge

The goal of helioseismology is to provide accurate information about the Sun's interior from the observations of the wave field at its surface. In the last three decades, both global and local helioseismology studies have made significant…

Solar active regions (ARs) that produce major flares typically exhibit strong plasma shear flows around photospheric magnetic polarity inversion lines (MPILs). It is therefore important to quantitatively measure such photospheric shear…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-29 Sung-Hong Park , Jordan A. Guerra , Peter T. Gallagher , Manolis K. Georgoulis , D. Shaun Bloomfield

Time-distance helioseismic measurements in surface- and deep-focus geometries for wave-paths that distinguish surface magnetic contributions from those due to deeper perturbations beneath a large sunspot are presented and analysed. Travel…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-21 S. P. Rajaguru