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The release of density structures at the tip of the coronal helmet streamers, likely as a consequence of magnetic reconnection, contributes to the mass flux of the slow solar wind. In situ measurements in the vicinity of the heliospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 E. Sanchez-Diaz , A. Rouillard , B. Lavraud , E. Kilpua , J. Davies

We identify coronal holes using a histogram-based intensity thresholding technique and compare their properties to fast solar wind streams at three different points in the heliosphere. The thresholding technique was tested on EUV and X-ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-13 Larisza D. Krista , Peter T. Gallagher

On 2008 January 10, the twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) A and B spacecraft conducted a high time cadence study of the solar corona with the Extreme UltraViolet Imager (EUVI) instruments with the aim of investigating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 M. S. Marsh , R. W. Walsh , S. Plunkett

The high-speed solar wind is typically the simplest and least stochastic type of large-scale plasma flow in the heliosphere. For much of the solar cycle, it is connected magnetically to large polar coronal holes on the Sun's surface.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-22 Steven R. Cranmer

Accurate determination of the rotation rate in the radiative zone of the sun from helioseismic observations requires rotational frequency splittings of exceptional quality as well as reliable inversion techniques. We present here inferences…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Eff-Darwich , S. G. Korzennik , S. J. Jimenez-Reyes , R. A. Garcia

Estimates of the photospheric magnetic, electric and plasma velocity fields are essential for studying the dynamics of the solar atmosphere, for example through the derivative quantities of Poynting and relative helicity flux and by using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-18 E. Lumme , J. Pomoell , E. K. J. Kilpua

Investigations of the dynamics of the hot coronal plasma are crucial for understanding various space weather phenomena and making in-depth analyzes of the global heating of the solar corona. We present here numerical simulations of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-01 Malherbe Jean-Marie , Mein Pierre , Sayede Frederic , Rudawy Pawel , Phillips Kenneth , Keenan Francis , Rybak Jan

The solar atmosphere is extremely dynamic, and many important phenomena develop on small scales that are unresolved in observations with the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) instrument on the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). For…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Irina N. Kitiashvili , Sebastien Couvidat , Andreas Lagg

To date, no self-consistent numerical simulation of the solar interior has succeeded in reproducing the observed thinness of the solar tachocline, and the persistence of uniform rotation beneath it. Although it is known that the uniform…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Toby S. Wood , Jeremy O. McCaslin , Pascale Garaud

We have carried out inversions of travel times as measured by Gizon et al. (2020) to infer the internal profile of the solar meridional circulation (MC). A linear inverse problem has been solved by the regularized least-squares method with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-19 Yoshiki Hatta , Hideyuki Hotta , Takashi Sekii

Local helioseismology has opened new frontiers in our quest for understanding of the internal dynamics and dynamo on the Sun. Local helioseismology reconstructs subsurface structures and flows by extracting coherent signals of acoustic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-20 Alexander G. Kosovichev , Junwei Zhao

Supergranules create a peak in the spatial spectrum of photospheric velocity features. They have some properties of convection cells but their origin is still being debated in the literature. The time-distance helioseismology constitutes a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 David Korda , Michal Švanda

Recent instrumentation has demonstrated that the solar atmosphere supports omnipresent transverse waves, which could play a key role in energizing the solar corona. Large-scale studies are required in order to build up an understanding of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-16 Micah J. Weberg , Richard J. Morton , James A. McLaughlin

The hemispheric pattern of solar filaments is considered in the context of the global magnetic field of the solar corona. In recent work Mackay and van Ballegooijen have shown how, for a pair of interacting magnetic bipoles, the observed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. R. Yeates , D. H. Mackay , A. A. van Ballegooijen

Solar subsurface zonal and meridional-flow profiles during the rising phase of solar cycle 24 are studied using time-distance helioseismology technique. The faster zonal bands in the torsional-oscillation pattern show strong hemispheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Junwei Zhao , A. G. Kosovichev , R. S. Bogart

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

We present a unified method to derive both solar wind velocities and coronal electron densities in the near-Sun corona using Doppler spectral broadening of spacecraft radio signals. The method is generalized to be frequency independent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-26 Keshav Aggarwal , R. K. Choudhary , Abhirup Datta , Roopa M. V. , Takeshi Imamura , Hiroki Ando

Solar differential rotation exhibits a prominent feature: its cyclic variations over the solar cycle, referred to as zonal flows or torsional oscillations, are observed throughout the convection zone. Given the challenge of measuring…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-27 Krishnendu Mandal , Alexander G. Kosovichev , Valery V. Pipin

The subsurface structure of an "average" supergranule is derived from existing HMI pipeline time-distance data products and compared to the best helioseismic flow model detailed in Duvall and Hanasoge (2013). We find that significant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 K. DeGrave , J. Jackiewicz

In a previous paper, I described a new way of determining the high-latitude solar rotation rate statistically from space-time maps of polar faculae observed in the 6767 \r{A} continuum by the Michelson Doppler Interferometer (MDI) on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-04 Neil R. Sheeley