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Several types of inertial modes have been detected on the Sun. Properties of these inertial modes have been studied in the linear regime but have not been studied in nonlinear simulations of solar rotating convection. Comparing the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-19 Yuto Bekki , Robert H. Cameron , Laurent Gizon

The influence of a toroidal magnetic field on the dynamics of Rossby waves in a thin layer of ideal conductive fluid on a rotating sphere is studied in the "shallow water" magnetohydrodynamic approximation for the first time. Dispersion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. V. Zaqarashvili , R. Oliver , J. L. Ballester , B. M. Shergelashvili

The connectivity pattern of networks, which are based on a correlation between ground level temperature time series, shows a dominant dense stripe of links in the southern ocean. We show that statistical categorization of these links yields…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Yang Wang , Avi Gozolchiani , Yosef Ashkenazy , Yehiel Berezin , Oded Guez , Shlomo Havlin

Within the convection zone of a rotating star, the presence of the Coriolis force stabilizes long-wavelength convective modes. These modes, which would have been unstable if the star lacked rotation, are called overstable convective modes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-15 Bradley W. Hindman , Rekha Jain

Rossby waves arise due to the conservation of total vorticity in rotating fluids and may govern the large-scale dynamics of stellar interiors. Recent space missions collected huge information about the light curves and activity of many…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 M. Albekioni , T. V. Zaqarashvili , V. Kukhianidze

We use nearly two decades of helioseismic data obtained from the GONG (2002-2020) and HMI (2010-2020) ring-diagram pipelines to examine the temporal variations of the properties of individual equatorial Rossby modes with azimuthal orders in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-09 B. Lekshmi , Laurent Gizon , Kiran Jain , Zhi-Chao Liang , Jordan Philidet

In this article, we derive and compute the sensitivity of measurements of coupling between normal modes of oscillation in the Sun to underlying flows. The theory is based on first-Born perturbation theory, and the analysis is carried out…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-19 Shravan M. Hanasoge , Martin Woodard , H. M. Antia , Laurent Gizon , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Time-distance helioseismology provides information about vector flows in the near-surface layers of the Sun by measuring wave travel times between points on the solar surface. Specific spatial averages of travel times have been proposed for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-05 Jan Langfellner , Laurent Gizon , Aaron C. Birch

The activity of Sun-like stars is governed by the magnetic field, which is believed to be generated in a thin layer between convective and radiative envelopes. The dynamo layer, also called the tachocline, permits the existence of Rossby…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-13 T. V. Zaqarashvili , M. Dikpati , P. A. Gilman

We study the temporal evolution of solar inertial modes over the solar cycle using observations from GONG and SDO/HMI. We focus on the high-latitude mode with azimuthal wavenumber $m=1$ and the equatorial Rossby modes with $3 \le m \le 16$.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 B Lekshmi , Zhi-Chao Liang , Laurent Gizon , Jordan Philidet , Kiran Jain

Normal-mode coupling is a technique applied to probe the solar interior using surface observations of oscillations. The technique, which is straightforward to implement, makes more use of the seismic information in the wavefield than other…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 Chris S. Hanson , Shravan Hanasoge , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Various types of inertial modes have been observed and identified on the Sun, including the equatorial Rossby modes, critical-latitude modes, and high-latitude modes. Recent observations further report a detection of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-20 Yuto Bekki

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

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

Apart from the 11-year solar cycle, another periodicity around 155-160 days was discovered during solar cycle 21 in high energy solar flares, and its presence in sunspot areas and strong magnetic flux has been also reported. This…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 T. V. Zaqarashvili , M. Carbonell , R. Oliver , J. L. Ballster

The Rossby wave instability in astrophysical disks is as a potentially important mechanism for driving angular momentum transport in disks. We aim to understand this instability in an approximate three-dimensional disk model environment…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 O. M. Umurhan

Helioseismic signatures of dynamo waves have recently been discovered in variations of the solar differential rotation, offering valuable insights into the type of dynamo mechanism operating in the solar convection zone. To characterize…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-19 Krishnendu Mandal , Alexander G. Kosovichev , Valery V. Pipin , Sylvain G. Korzennik

Rossby waves drifting in the azimuthal direction are a common feature at the onset of thermal convective instability in a rapidly rotating spherical shell. They can also result from the destabilization of a Stewartson shear layer produced…

Geophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Avalos-Zuniga , F. Plunian , K. H. R\" Adler

The Sun supports a rich spectrum of internal waves that are continuously excited by turbulent convection. The GONG network and the MDI/SOHO space instrument provide an exceptional data base of spatially-resolved observations of solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 L. Gizon , A. C. Birch , H. C. Spruit

Annual oscillations have been detected in many indices of solar activity during many cycles. Recent multi spacecraft observations of coronal bright points revealed slow retrograde toroidal phase drift (with the speed of 3 m/s of 1 yr…