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Understanding solar turbulent convection and its influence on differential rotation has been a challenge over the past two decades. Current models often overestimate giant convection cells amplitude, leading to an effective Rossby number…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-12 Quentin Noraz , Allan Sacha Brun , Antoine Strugarek

Though Rossby waves have been observed on the Sun, their radial eigenfunctions remain a mystery. The prior theoretical work either considers quasi-2D systems, which do not apply to the solar interior, or only considers fully radiative or…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-24 Catherine C. Blume , Bradley W. Hindman

Solar inertial modes are quasi-toroidal modes of the Sun that are of practical interest as they allow probing the deep convection zone. Since 2010, solar images of the photospheric magnetic field are made available by HMI onboard the Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-10 Neelanchal Joshi , Zhi-Chao Liang , Damien Fournier , Laurent Gizon

The periods of magnetic activity cycles in the Sun and solar-type stars do not exhibit a simple or even single trend with respect to rotation rate or luminosity. Dynamo models can be used to interpret this diversity, and can ultimately help…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 A. Strugarek , P. Beaudoin , P. Charbonneau , A. S. Brun

Orbit spin coupling is proposed as an alternative to planetary tidal models for the excitation of solar variability as a function of time. Momentum sourced from the orbital angular momenta of solar system bodies is deposited within the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-26 James H Shirley

Inertial modes have been recently detected in the Sun via helioseismology, yet their origin, evolution, and role in the dynamics of the solar plasma and magnetic field remain poorly understood. In this study, we employ global numerical…

Asteroseismic inference from pressure modes (p modes) and buoyancy, or gravity, modes (g modes) is ubiquitous for stars across the Hertzsprung--Russell diagram. Until now, however, discussion of r modes (global Rossby waves) has been rare.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Hideyuki Saio , Donald W. Kurtz , Simon Murphy , Victoria L. Antoci , Umin Lee

Large-scale Rossby waves have recently been discovered from measurements of horizontal surface and near-surface solar flows (L\"optien at al. 2018). We are interested in understanding why only the sectoral modes are seen in the observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 C. Damiani , R. H. Cameron , A. C. Birch , L. Gizon

We review recent advances and results in enhancing and developing helioseismic analysis methods and in solar data assimilation. In the first part of this paper we will focus on selected developments in time-distance and global…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-16 Ariane Schad , Laurene Jouve , Tom L. Duvall , Markus Roth , Sergei V. Vorontsov

AIM: To study the variation of the angular momentum and the rotational kinetic energy of the Sun, and associated variations in the gravitational multipole moments, on a timescale of the solar cycle. METHOD: Inverting helioseismic rotational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. M. Antia , S. M. Chitre , D. O. Gough

Meridional flow is thought to play a very important role in the dynamics of the solar convection zone; however, because of its relatively small amplitude, precisely measuring it poses a significant challenge. Here we present a complete…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-02 J. Jackiewicz , A. Serebryanskiy , S. Kholikov

Recent analysis of the helioseismic observations indicate that the previously observed surface torsional oscillations extend significantly downwards into the solar convection zone. In an attempt to understand these oscillations, we study…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eurico Covas , Reza Tavakol , David Moss , Andrew Tworkowski

Normal-mode helioseismic data analysis uses observed solar oscillation spectra to infer perturbations in the solar interior due to global and local-scale flows and structural asphericity. Differential rotation, the dominant global-scale…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-30 Samarth G. Kashyap , Srijan Bharati Das , Shravan M. Hanasoge , Martin F. Woodard , Jeroen Tromp

We use a simple physical model to study the nonlinear behaviour of the r-mode instability. We assume that r-modes (Rossby waves) are excited in a thin spherical shell of rotating incompressible fluid. For this case, exact Rossby wave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Yuri Levin , Greg Ushomirsky

We present evidence that the allowed periods of equatorially trapped Rossby wave modes on the Sun coincide closely with the 88 day period and 176 day sub harmonic period of Mercury and evidence of Rossby waves on the Sun at the same…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-15 Ian Edmonds

The stellar Rossby number, a dimensionless parameter quantifying the influence of Coriolis forces on convective motions, plays a pivotal role in understanding magnetic stellar evolution. In this work, we explore the connection between the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-15 Alfio Bonanno , Enrico Corsaro , Travis S. Metcalfe , Sylvain Breton , Orlagh L. Creevey , Christopher J. Lindsay

Helioseismology, the study of global solar oscillations, has proved to be an extremely powerful tool for the investigation of the internal structure and dynamics of the Sun. Studies of time changes in frequency observations of solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 M. P. Di Mauro

Long-term records of sunspot number and concentrations of cosmogenic radionuclides (10Be and 14C) on the Earth reveal the variation of the Sun's magnetic activity over hundreds and thousands of years. We identify several clear periods in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 T. V. Zaqarashvili , R. Oliver , A. Hanslmeier , M. Carbonell , J. L. Ballester , T. Gachechiladze , I. G. Usoskin

Can atmospheric waves in planet-hosting solar-like stars substantially resonate to tidal forcing? Substantially at a level of impacting the space weather or even of being dynamo-relevant? In particular, low-frequency Rossby waves, which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-22 G. M. Horstmann , G. Mamatsashvili , A. Giesecke , T. V. Zaqarashvili , F. Stefani

In a real medium which has oscillations, the perturbations can cause the energy transfer between different modes. The perturbation interpreted as an interaction between the modes is inferred as mode coupling. Mode coupling process in an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Zahra Fazel