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One of the products of the National Solar Observatory's Integrated Synoptic Program (NISP) is the farside seismic map which shows the magnetic activity on the unobserved side of the Sun. The production of these rudimentary maps began in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-27 Mitchell Creelman , Kiran Jain , Niles Oien , Thomas M. Wentzel

We compare photospheric line-of-sight magnetograms from the Synoptic Long-term Investigations of the Sun (SOLIS) vector spectromagnetograph (VSM) instrument with observations from the 150-foot Solar Tower at Mt. Wilson (MWO), Helioseismic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-01 A. Pietarila , L. Bertello , J. W. Harvey , A. A. Pevtsov

The meridional circulation at high latitudes is crucial to the build-up and reversal of the Sun's polar magnetic fields. Here we characterize the axisymmetric flows by applying a magnetic feature cross-correlation procedure to high…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-26 Lisa Rightmire-Upton , David H. Hathaway , Katie Kosak

The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) observes the Sun at the Fe I 6173 {\AA} line and returns full-disk maps of line-of-sight (LOS) observables including the magnetic flux density,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-20 Daniel P. Cohen , Serena Criscuoli , Laurel Farris , Alexandra Tritschler

The solar mean magnetic field (SMMF) provided by the Wilcox Solar Observatory (WSO) is compared with the SMMF acquired by the \textit{Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager} (HMI) onboard the \textit{Solar Dynamic Observatory} (SDO). We found…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-18 A. S. Kutsenko , V. I. Abramenko

This document provides some technical notes on the polar field correction scheme for the HMI synoptic maps and daily updated synchronic frames. It is intended as a reference for the new data products and for some minor updates on our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-15 Xudong Sun

We explore model performance for the Alfven Wave Solar atmosphere Model (AWSoM) with near-real-time (NRT) synoptic maps of the photospheric vector magnetic field. These maps, produced by assimilating data from the Helioseismic Magnetic…

Spectral analysis of the spatial structure of solar subphotospheric convection is carried out for subsurface flow maps constructed using the time--distance helioseismological technique. The source data are obtained from the Helioseismic and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-27 Alexander V. Getling , Alexander G. Kosovichev

Using a recently developed two-scale formalism to determine the magnetic helicity spectrum (Brandenburg et al. 2017), we analyze synoptic vector magnetograms built with data from the Vector Spectromagnetograph (VSM) instrument on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-14 Nishant K. Singh , Maarit J. Käpylä , Axel Brandenburg , Petri J. Käpylä , Andreas Lagg , Ilpo Virtanen

The Solar Dynamics Observatory/Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (SDO/HMI) filtergrams, taken at six wavelengths around the Fe I 6173.3 {\AA} line, contain information about the line-of-sight velocity over a range of heights in the solar…

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

The Sun's axisymmetric flows, differential rotation and meridional flow, govern the dynamics of the solar magnetic cycle and variety of methods are used to measure these flows, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. Flow measurements…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Sushant S. Mahajan , David H. Hathaway , Andrés Muñoz-Jaramillo , Petrus C. Martens

An accurate measurement of magnetic field is very important for understanding the formation and evolution of solar magnetic fields. Currently there are two types of solar magnetic field measurement instruments: the filter-based…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-10 Mei Zhang , Haocheng Zhang , Chengqing Jiang

This report provides a brief summary of the properties of new cameras selected for NSF's Global Oscillations Network Group (GONG) facilities operated by the NSO Integrated Synoptic Program (NISP). These camera replacements are part of a…

We present a Python tool to generate a standard dataset from solar images that allows for user-defined selection criteria and a range of pre-processing steps. Our Python tool works with all image products from both the Solar and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-17 Carl Shneider , Andong Hu , Ajay K. Tiwari , Monica G. Bobra , Karl Battams , Jannis Teunissen , Enrico Camporeale

This article presents a publicly available, multimodal, tiered magnetic polarity inversion lines (MPILs) dataset extracted from the Solar Dynamics Observatory's (SDO) Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) Active Region Patches (SDO/HMI…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-26 Ziba Khani , Anli Ji , Manolis K. Georgoulis , Berkay Aydin

Solar activity is usually caused by the evolution of solar magnetic fields. Magnetic field parameters derived from photospheric vector magnetograms of solar active regions have been used to analyze and forecast eruptive events such as solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Haodi Jiang , Qin Li , Zhihang Hu , Nian Liu , Yasser Abduallah , Ju Jing , Genwei Zhang , Yan Xu , Wynne Hsu , Jason T. L. Wang , Haimin Wang

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is delivering vector field observations of the full solar disk with unprecedented temporal and spatial resolution; however, the satellite is in a highly inclined geostationary orbit. The relative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-01 P. W. Schuck , Spiro Antiochos , K. D. Leka , Graham Barnes

While the {\it Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager} (HMI) onboard the {\it Solar Dynamics Observatory} (SDO) provides Doppler velocity [$V$], continuum intensity [$I_C$], and line-depth [$Ld$] observations, each of which is sensitive to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-24 Rachel Howe , Kiran Jain , Richard S. Bogart , Deborah A. Haber , Charles S. Baldner