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Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter data are used to investigate the radial evolution of magnetic turbulence between $0.06 ~ \lesssim R ~\lesssim 1$ au. The spectrum is studied as a function of scale, normalized to the ion inertial scale…

The solar magnetic activity cycle is responsible for periodic episodes of severe space weather, which can perturb satellite orbits, interfere with communications systems, and bring down power grids. Much progress has recently been made in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. S. Metcalfe , T. J. Henry , M. Knolker , D. R. Soderblom

We develop a two-scale formalism to determine global magnetic helicity spectra in systems where the local magnetic helicity has opposite signs on both sides of the equator, giving rise to cancelation with conventional methods. We verify…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-07 Axel Brandenburg , Gordon J. D. Petrie , Nishant K. Singh

We estimated photospheric velocities by separately applying the Fourier Local Correlation Tracking (FLCT) and Differential Affine Velocity Estimator (DAVE) methods to 2708 co-registered pairs of SOHO/MDI magnetograms, with nominal 96-minute…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. T. Welsch , Y. Li , P. W. Schuck , G. H. Fisher

Over 54 years of hourly mean value of solar wind velocity from 27 Nov. 1963 to 31 Dec. 2017 are used to investigate characteristics of the rotation period of solar wind through auto-correlation analysis. Solar wind of high velocity is found…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Kejun Li , W. Feng

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

Today's picture of the internal solar rotation rate profile results essentially from helioseismic analyses of frequency splittings of resonant acoustic waves. Here we present another, complementary estimation of the internal solar rotation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-17 Ariane Schad , Markus Roth

Context: One aspect of understanding the dynamics of the quiet Sun is to quantify the evolution of the flux within small-scale magnetic features. These features are routinely observed in the quiet photosphere and were given various names,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-04 R. Attie , D. E. Innes

The rotation-activity relationship of G-type stars results from surface magnetic fields emerging from the interior. How the magnetic flux and its emergence rate scale with rotation rate are not well understood, both observationally and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-18 Emre Isik , Sami K. Solanki , Natalie A. Krivova , Alexander I. Shapiro

Low-m inertial modes have been recently discovered in the Sun's high-latitude regions. In this study, we characterize the observational properties of the m = 1 mode by analyzing time-distance subsurface flow maps. Synoptic flow maps,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-25 Boyang Ding , Junwei Zhao , Ruizhu Chen , Matthias Waidele , Sushant S. Mahajan , Oana Vesa

(Abridged) Wavelet analysis can be used to measure the power spectrum of solar wind fluctuations along a line in any direction with respect to the local mean magnetic field. This technique is applied to study solar wind turbulence in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 J. J. Podesta

We compare measurements of horizontal flows on the surface of the Sun using helioseismic time--distance inversions and coherent structure tracking of solar granules. Tracking provides 2D horizontal flows on the solar surface, whereas the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Svanda , Th. Roudier , M. Rieutord , R. Burston , L. Gizon

Estimates of velocities from time series of photospheric and/or chromospheric vector magnetograms can be used to determine fluxes of magnetic energy (the Poynting flux) and helicity across the magnetogram layer, and to provide…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-03 B. T. Welsch , G. H. Fisher

The published Mount Wilson Doppler-shift measurements of the solar velocity field taken in 1967--1982 are revisited with a more accurate model, which includes two terms representing the meridional flow and three terms corresponding to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Valeri V. Makarov

The aim of this paper is to extend our previous study of the solar-cycle variations of the meridional flows and to investigate their latitudinal and longitudinal structure in the subphotospheric layer, especially their variations in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michal Svanda , Alexander G. Kosovichev , Junwei Zhao

The need for reliable predictions of the solar activity cycle motivates the development of dynamo models incorporating a representation of surface processes sufficiently detailed to allow assimilation of magnetographic data. In this series…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-30 Alexandre Lemerle , Paul Charbonneau , Arnaud Carignan-Dugas

Near-surface flows measured by the ring-diagram technique of local helioseismology show structures that persist over multiple rotations. We examine these phenomena using data from the {\em Global Oscillation Network Group} (GONG) and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 R. Howe , R. W. Komm , D. Baker , L. Harra , L. van Driel-Gesztelyi , R. S. Bogart

Maps of the magnetic field at the Sun's surface are commonly used as boundary conditions in space-weather modeling. However, continuous observations are only available from the Sun's Earth-facing side. One commonly used approach to mitigate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-02 Dan Yang , Stephan G. Heinemann , Robert H. Cameron , Laurent Gizon

We report on new spectro-polarimetric measurements with simultaneous filter imaging observation, revealing the frequent appearance of polarization signals indicating high-speed, probably supersonic, downflows that are associated with at…

The aim of this work is to give new observational constraints on solar surface flows by determining the horizontal scale dependence of the velocity and intensity fields, as represented by their power spectra, and to offer some theoretical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Rieutord , T. Roudier , F. Rincon , J. -M. Malherbe , N. Meunier , T. Berger , Z. Frank