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At high frequencies beyond the acoustic cut-off, a peak-like structure is visible in the solar power spectrum. Known as the pseudo-modes, their frequencies have been shown to vary in anti-phase with solar magnetic activity. In this work, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-06 Laura Jade Millson , Anne-Marie Broomhall , Tishtrya Mehta

The consistency of time--distance inversions for horizontal components of the plasma flow on supergranular scales in the upper solar convection zone is checked by comparing the results derived using two k--\omega filtering procedures --…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Michal Svanda

We present evidence that the sound-speed variation with solar activity has a two-layer configuration, similar to the one observed below an active region, which consists of a negative layer near the solar surface and a positive one in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Cristina Rabello-Soares

We introduce an updated, time-dependent treatment to the split-tail ("croissant-like") heliosphere model with data-driven solar wind conditions at 1 au, to study the evolution of the heliosphere with solar-cycle variations in plasma speed,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-20 Chika Onubogu , M. Opher , E. Powell , S. Du , J. M. Sokół , J. D. Richardson , B. Van Der Holst

Here we present a detailed analysis of solar acoustic mode frequencies and their rotational splittings for modes with degree up to 900. They were obtained by applying spherical harmonic decomposition to full-disk solar images observed by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-08-22 M. C. Rabello-Soares , S. G. Korzennik , J. Schou

Context. There remains much mystery about how or if wave-energy in the photosphere can be transferred sufficiently upwards through the solar atmosphere to contribute to coronal heating. In light of a plethora of theoretical and idealised…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 George Cherry , Boris Gudiksen , Adam J. Finley , Quentin Noraz

We explore consequences for the solar dynamo of a newly-developed physical hypothesis describing a weak coupling of the orbital and rotational motions of extended bodies. The coupling is given by - c ((dL/dt) x omega sub alpha) x r, where…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-07 James H. Shirley

Helioseismology provides important constraints for the solar dynamo problem. However, the basic properties and even the depth of the dynamo process, which operates also in other stars, are unknown. Most of the dynamo models suggest that the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-11 Alexander G. Kosovichev , Valery V. Pipin , Junwei Zhao

According to time-distance helioseismology, information about internal fluid motions is encoded in the travel times of solar waves. The inverse problem consists of inferring 3-D vector flows from a set of travel-time measurements. Here we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Svanda , L. Gizon , S. M. Hanasoge , S. D. Ustyugov

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 use very precise frequencies of low-degree solar-oscillation modes measured from 4752 days of data collected by the Birmingham Solar-Oscillations Network (BiSON) to derive seismic information on the solar core. We compare these…

We build a hydrodynamical model for computing and understanding the Sun's large-scale high latitude flows, including Coriolis forces, turbulent diffusion of momentum and gyroscopic pumping. Side boundaries of the spherical 'polar cap', our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Mausumi Dikpati , Peter A. Gilman

Various models of solar subsurface stratification are tested in the global EULAG-MHD solver to simulate diverse regimes of near-surface convective transport. Sub- and superadiabacity are altered at the surface of the model ($ r >…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Andrey M. Stejko , Gustavo Guerrero , Alexander G. Kosovichev , Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz

Bowman et al. (2019) reported low-frequency photometric variability in 164 O- and B-type stars observed with K2 and TESS. They interpret these motions as internal gravity waves, which could be excited stochastically by convection in the…

We present the identification of very low frequency g modes in the asymptotic regime and two important parameters that have long been waited for: the core rotation rate, and the asymptotic equidistant period spacing of these g modes. The…

Time-distance helioseismology is a technique for measuring the time for waves to travel from one point on the solar surface to another. These wave travel times are affected by advection by subsurface flows. Inferences of plasma flows based…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-12 A. C. Birch , L. Gizon

The onset of convection for spherically invariant Rayleigh-B\'enard fluid flow is driven by marginal modes associated with spherical harmonics of a certain degree $\ell$, which depends upon the aspect ratio of the spherical shell. At…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-09-18 Pascal Chossat , Philippe Beltrame

We perform helioseismic holography to assess the noise in p-mode travel-time shifts which would form the basis of inferences of large-scale flows throughout the solar convection zone. We also derive the expected travel times from a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. C. Braun , A. C. Birch

We present an analysis of small-scale, periodic, solar-wind density enhancements (length-scales as small as \approx 1000 Mm) observed in images from the Heliospheric Imager (HI) aboard STEREO A. We discuss their possible relationship to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-30 Nicholeen M. Viall , Harlan E. Spence , Angelos Vourlidas , Russell Howard

In the present work we show robust indications of the existence of g modes in the Sun using 10 years of GOLF data. The present analysis is based on the exploitation of the collective properties of the predicted low-frequency (25 to 140…