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Context: Supergranulation is a pattern of the velocity field at the surface of the Sun, which has been known about for more than fifty years, however, no satisfactory explanation of its origin has been proposed. Aims: New observational…

Solar supergranulation remains a mystery in spite of decades of intensive studies. Most of the papers about supergranulation deal with its surface properties. Local helioseismology provides an opportunity to look below the surface and see…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Radek Zlebcik , Michal Svanda , Mirek Klvana

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

The solar photosphere provides us with a laboratory for understanding turbulence in a layer where the fundamental processes of transport vary rapidly and a strongly superadiabatic region lies very closely to a subadiabatic layer. Our tools…

Spectra of the cellular photospheric flows are determined from full-disk Doppler velocity observations acquired by the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) instrument on the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft. Three different…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-01 David H. Hathaway , Thibaud Teil , Aimee A. Norton , Irina Kitiashvili

Understanding convection is important in stellar physics, for example as an input in stellar evolution models. Helioseismic estimates of convective flow amplitudes in deeper regions of the solar interior disagree by orders of magnitude…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Vincent G. A. Böning , Aaron C. Birch , Laurent Gizon , Thomas L. Duvall

Understanding the granulation background signal is of vital importance when interpreting the asteroseismic diagnostics of solar-like oscillators. Various descriptions exist in the literature for modelling the surface manifestation of…

Recently Gizon, Duvall and Schou (2002) suggested that supergranulation has a wave-like component. In this paper I show that the same phenomenon can be observed using surface Doppler shift data, thereby confirming their observations. I am…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Schou

Below the scale of supergranules we find that cellular flows are present in the solar photosphere at two distinct size scales, approximately 2 Mm and 4 Mm, with distinct characteristic times. Simultaneously present in the flow is a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. K. Lawrence , A. C. Cadavid , A. Ruzmaikin

The bispectrum, the three-point function of density fluctuations in Fourier space, is the lowest order statistic that carries information about the spatial coherence of large-scale structures. For Gaussian initial conditions, when the…

In the recent papers, we introduced a method utilised to measure the flow field. The method is based on the tracking of supergranular structures. We did not precisely know, whether its results represent the flow field in the photosphere or…

Results of forward modelling of acoustic wave propagation in a realistic solar sub-photosphere with two cases of steady horizontal flows are presented and analysed by the means of local helioseismology. The simulations are based on fully…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Shelyag , R. Erdelyi , M. J. Thompson

The solar photosphere is the visible surface of the Sun, where many bright granules, surrounded by narrow dark intergranular lanes, are observed everywhere. The granular pattern is a manifestation of convective motion at the photospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 T. Oba , Y. Iida , T. Shimizu

As large--distance rays (say, 10\,-\,$24 ^\circ$) approach the solar surface approximately vertically, travel times measured from surface pairs for these large separations are mostly sensitive to vertical flows, at least for shallow flows…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Thomas L. Duvall, , Shravan M. Hanasoge

Gas convection is observed in the solar photosphere as the granulation, i.e., having highly time-dependent cellular patterns, consisting of numerous bright cells called granules and dark surrounding-channels called intergranular lanes. Many…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 T. Oba , Y. Iida , T. Shimizu

Surface granulation of the Sun is primarily a consequence of thermal transport in the outer 1 % of the radius. Its typical scale of about 1 - 2 Mm is set by the balance between convection, free-streaming radiation, and the strong density…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Shravan M. Hanasoge , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Supergranules are divergent 30-Mm sized cellular flows observed everywhere at the solar photosphere. Their place in the hierarchy of convective structures and their origin remain poorly understood (Rincon et al., 2018). Estimating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Vedant Dhruv , Jishnu Bhattacharya , Shravan Hanasoge

Tens of thousands of solar-like oscillating stars have been observed by space missions. Their photometric variability in the Fourier domain can be parameterized by a sum of two super-Lorentizian functions for granulation and a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-15 Zhao Guo , Eric B. Ford , Dennis Stello , Jacob K. Luhn , Suvrath Mahadevan , Arvind F. Gupta , Jie Yu

Solar oscillations consist of a rich spectrum of internal acoustic waves and surface gravity waves, stochastically excited by turbulent convection. They have been monitored almost continuously over the last ten years with high-precision…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-26 L. Gizon

We present measurements of the complete spatio-temporal Fourier spectrum of Faraday waves. The Faraday waves are generated at the interface of two immiscible index matched liquids of different density. By use of a new absorption technique…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 A. V. Kityk , E. Embs , V. V. Mekhonoshin , C. Wagner