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Observations with the 1-m Swedish Solar Telescope of the flows seen in penumbral filaments are presented. Time sequences of bright filaments show overturning motions strikingly similar to those seen along the walls of small isolated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-22 H. C. Spruit , G. B. Scharmer , M. G. Löfdahl

Heat is transported through the outermost 30% of the Sun's interior by overturning convective motions. These motions are evident at the Sun's surface in the form of two characteristic cellular structures - granules and supergranules (~1000…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-06 David H. Hathaway , Lisa Upton , Owen Colegrove

The solar surface is a continuous source of internal gravity waves (IGWs). IGWs are believed to supply the bulk of the wave energy for the lower solar atmosphere, but their existence and role for the energy balance of the upper layers is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 G. Vigeesh , M. Roth , O. Steiner , B. Fleck

Evidence of surface magnetism is now observed on an increasing number of cool stars. The detailed manner by which dynamo-generated magnetic fields giving rise to starspots traverse the convection zone still remains unclear. Some insight…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Maria A. Weber , Matthew K. Browning , Suzannah Boardman , Joshua Clarke , Samuel Pugsley , Edward Townsend

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

Magnetic quenching of turbulent thermal diffusivity leads to instability of the large-scale field with the production of spatially isolated regions of enhanced field. This conclusion follows from a linear stability analysis in the framework…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-01 Leonid L. Kitchatinov

The lifetimes and length-scales for supergranular cells in active and quiescent regions of the Solar chromosphere, and the relation between the two, were studied using a time series of Ca II K filtergrams. The lifetimes, in contrast to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-22 Sowmya G. M. , Rajani G. , U. Paniveni , R. Srikanth

Quiescent filaments are prominent features of the solar atmosphere, and their evolution reflects the coronal magnetic field's response to photospheric magnetic activity. Here, we report on a quiescent filament observed from 2023 September…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-03 Garima Karki , Jinhan Guo , Brigitte Schmieder , Ramesh Chandra , Pascal Démoulin , Stefaan Poedts , Bernard Gelly

We present a series of numerical sunspot models addressing the subsurface field and flow structure in up to 16 Mm deep domains covering up to 2 days of temporal evolution. Changes in the photospheric appearance of the sunspots are driven by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Matthias Rempel

Limiting ourselves to two flavor approximation the motion of the neutrino flux in the solar matter and twisting magnetic field is considered. For the neutrino system described by the 4-component wave function $\Psi^T = (\nu_{eL}, \nu_{XL},…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-26 O. M. Boyarkin , G. G. Boyarkina

The polarity of the toroidal magnetic field in the solar convection zone periodically reverses in the course of the 11/22-year solar cycle. Among the various processes that contribute to the removal of `old-polarity' toroidal magnetic flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 R. H. Cameron , M. Schuessler

Filamentary structures are ubiquitous in the interstellar medium, yet their formation, internal structure, and longevity have not been studied in detail. We report the results from a comprehensive numerical study that investigates the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-18 Wladimir Banda-Barragán , Ross Parkin , Christoph Federrath , Roland Crocker , Geoffrey Bicknell

In this paper, we study the properties of solar granulation in a facular region from the photosphere up to the lower chromosphere. Our aim is to investigate the dependence of granular structure on magnetic field strength. We use…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 R. Kostik , E. Khomenko

After emerging to the solar surface, the Sun's magnetic field displays a complex and intricate evolution. The evolution of the surface field is important for several reasons. One is that the surface field, and its dynamics, sets the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 J. Jiang , D. H. Hathaway , R. H. Cameron , S. K. Solanki , L. Gizon , L. Upton

Magnetic helicity flux gives information about the topology of a magnetic field passing through a boundary. In solar physics applications, this boundary is the photosphere and magnetic helicity flux has become an important quantity in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-03 Chris Prior , David MacTaggart

The Sun is a non-equilibrium dissipative system subjected to an energy flow which originates in its core. Convective overshooting motions create temperature and velocity structures which show a temporal and spatial evolution. As a result,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 F. Berrilli , S. Scardigli , S. Giordano

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

Magnetic element tracking is often used to study the transport and diffusion of the magnetic field on the solar photosphere. From the analysis of the displacement spectrum of these tracers, it has been recently agreed that a regime of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-01 D. Del Moro , F. Giannattasio , F. Berrilli , G. Consolini , F. Lepreti , M. Gosic

We study the complexity and scale of the supergranular network across the 23rd solar cycle, using the Ca II K digitized intensitygrams from the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory (KSO). Enhancing our previous data and refining our data analysis,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-22 G. Rajani , G. M. Sowmya , U. Paniveni , R. Srikanth

(abridged) Context: The mechanisms that cause the formation of sunspots are still unclear. Aims: We study the self-organisation of initially uniform sub-equipartition magnetic fields by highly stratified turbulent convection. Methods: We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-06 P. J. Käpylä , A. Brandenburg , N. Kleeorin , M. J. Käpylä , I. Rogachevskii