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A statistical study has been carried out of the relationship between plasma flow Doppler velocities and magnetic field parameters during the emergence of active regions at the solar photospheric level with data acquired by the Michelson…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-01 A. Khlystova

The emergence of active regions on the Sun is an integral feature of the solar dynamo mechanism. However, details about the generation of active-region-scale magnetism and the journey of this magnetic flux to the photosphere are still in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-13 Maria A. Weber , Hannah Schunker , Laurène Jouve , Emre Işık

The temporal variation of the horizontal velocity in subsurface layers beneath three different types of active regions is studied using the technique of ring diagrams. In this study, we select active regions (ARs) 10923, 10930, 10935 from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 K. Jain , R. W. Komm , I González Hernández , S. C. Tripathy , F. Hill

The tilt of solar active regions described by Joy's law is essential for converting a toroidal field to a poloidal field in Babcock-Leighton dynamo models. In thin flux tube models the Coriolis force causes Joy's law, acting on east-west…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 Hannah Schunker , Christian Baumgartner , Aaron C. Birch , Robert H. Cameron , Douglas C. Braun , Laurent Gizon

The generation of magnetic flux in the solar interior and its transport to the outer solar atmosphere will be in the focus of solar physics research for the next decades. One key-ingredient is the process of magnetic flux emergence into the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Rolf Schlichenmaier , Nazaret Bello González , Reza Rezaei

Active regions (ARs) play an important role in the magnetic dynamics of the Sun. Solar surface flux transport models (SFTMs) are used to describe the evolution of the radial magnetic field at the solar surface. There is however uncertainty…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Nils Gottschling , Hannah Schunker , Aaron C. Birch , Robert Cameron , Laurent Gizon

For the first time, we statistically study the properties of ephemeral regions (ERs) and quantitatively determine their parameters at the emergence stage based on a sample of 2988 ERs observed by the \emph{Solar Dynamics Observatory}.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Shuhong Yang , Jun Zhang

We simulate the rise through the upper convection zone and emergence through the solar surface of initially uniform, untwisted, horizontal magnetic flux with the same entropy as the non-magnetic plasma that is advected into a domain 48 Mm…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 R. F. Stein , A. Lagerfjärd , Å. Nordlund , D. Georgobiani

It is widely accepted that solar active regions including sunspots are formed by the emerging magnetic flux from the deep convection zone. In previous numerical simulations, we found that the horizontal divergent flow (HDF) occurs before…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 S. Toriumi , K. Hayashi , T. Yokoyama

Proper motions in a sunspot group with a delta-configuration and close to the solar disc center have been studied by employing local correlation tracking techniques. The analysis is based on more than one hour time series of G-band images.…

We present results from numerical modeling of emerging flux regions on the solar surface. The modeling was carried out by means of 3D radiative MHD simulations of the rise of buoyant magnetic flux tubes through the convection zone and into…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. C. M. Cheung , M. Schuessler , T. D. Tarbell , A. M. Title

Outflows of plasma at the edges of active regions surrounded by quiet Sun are now a common observation with the Hinode satellite. While there is observational evidence to suggest that the outflows are originating in the magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. J. Murray , D. Baker , L. van Driel-Gesztelyi , J. Sun

We study the visibility of sunspots and its influence on observed values of sunspot region parameters. We use Virtual Observatory tools provided by AstroGrid to analyse a sample of 6862 sunspot regions. By studying the distributions of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-12 S. Dalla , L. Fletcher , N. A. Walton

We study the evolution of electric currents during the emergence of magnetic flux in the solar photosphere and the differences exhibited between solar active regions of different Hale complexity classes. A sample of 59 active regions was…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-06 I. Kontogiannis , M. K. Georgoulis

Magnetic flux emergence and decay in the Sun span from days to months. However, their tracking is typically limited to about half a solar rotation when relying on single-vantage-point observations. Combining observations from both the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 I. Kontogiannis , Y. Zhu , K. Barczynski , M. Z. Stiefel , H. Collier , J. McKevitt , J. S. Castellanos Durán , S. Berdyugina , L. K. Harra

Magnetic flux emergence from the convection zone into the photosphere and beyond is a critical component of the behaviour of large-scale solar magnetism. Flux rarely emerges amid field-free areas at the surface, but when it does, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-04 Prasad Mani , Chris S. Hanson , Siddarth Dhanpal , Shravan Hanasoge , Srijan Bharati Das , Matthias Rempel

We quantify the emergence and decay rates of preceder (p) and follower (f) sunspots within ten active regions from 2010-2014 using Space-weather Helioseismic Magnetic Imager Active Region Patch data. The sunspots are small- to mid-sized…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 A. A. Norton , E. H. Jones , M. G. Linton , J. E. Leake

We analyze the evolution of Fe XII coronal plasma upflows from the edges of ten active regions (ARs) as they cross the solar disk using the Hinode Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS). Confirming the results of Demoulin et al.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-12 Deborah Baker , Miho Janvier , Pascal Demoulin , Cristina Mandrini

Sunspots are obvious observable manifestations of the toroidal magnetic field generated through the dynamo in the convection zone. They appear in different sizes, having a wide distribution in their area. We analyse the sunspot group area…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-10 Bidya Binay Karak , Soumya Mishra , Anu Sreedevi

Context. The presence of the moat flow around sunspots is intimately linked to the mere existence of sunspots. Aims. We characterize the moat flow (MF) and Evershed flow (EF) in sunspots to enhance our knowledge of sunspot structures and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Johannes Löhner-Böttcher , Rolf Schlichenmaier