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The meridional circulation at high latitudes is crucial to the build-up and reversal of the Sun's polar magnetic fields. Here we characterize the axisymmetric flows by applying a magnetic feature cross-correlation procedure to high…

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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,…

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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

At the surface of the Sun, acoustic waves appear to be affected by the presence of strong magnetic fields in active regions. We explore the possibility that the inclined magnetic field in sunspot penumbrae may convert primarily vertically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Schunker , D. C. Braun , C. Lindsey , P. S. Cally

We studied the solar surface flows (differential rotation and meridional circulation) using a magnetic element feature tracking technique by which the surface velocity is obtained using magnetic field data. We used the line-of-sight…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Shinsuke Imada , Masashi Fujiyama

Spectral analysis of the spatial structure of solar subphotospheric convection is carried out for subsurface flow maps constructed using the time--distance helioseismological technique. The source data are obtained from the Helioseismic and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-27 Alexander V. Getling , Alexander G. Kosovichev

We apply time-distance helioseismology, local correlation tracking and Fourier spatial-temporal filtering methods to realistic supergranule scale simulations of solar convection and compare the results with high-resolution observations from…

Continuous high-cadence and high-spatial resolution Dopplergrams allow us to study sub-surface dynamics that may be further extended to explore precursors of visible solar activity on the surface. Since the p-mode power is absorbed in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Kiran Jain , S. C. Tripathy , B. Ravindra , R. Komm , F. Hill

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

The Helioseismic Magnetic Imager (HMI) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) records line-of-sight Dopplergram images of convective flows on the surface. These images are used to obtain the multi-scale convective spectrum. We design…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-09 Samarth G Kashyap , Shravan M Hanasoge

Mechanisms of the formation and stability of sunspots are among the longest-standing and intriguing puzzles of solar physics and astrophysics. Sunspots are controlled by subsurface dynamics hidden from direct observations. Recently,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 A. G. Kosovichev

We observe and characterize the scattering of acoustic wave packets by a sunspot, in a regime where the wavelength is comparable to the size of the sunspot. Spatial maps of wave traveltimes and amplitudes are measured from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-04 Z. -C. Liang , L. Gizon , H. Schunker

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) wave activity is ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere. MHD seismology aims to determine difficult to measure physical parameters in solar atmospheric magnetic and plasma structures by a combination of observed and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Inigo Arregui

We analyze the evolution of the interplanetary magnetic field spatial structure by examining the inner heliospheric autocorrelation function, using Helios 1 and Helios 2 "in situ" observations. We focus on the evolution of the integral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-19 M. E. Ruiz , S. Dasso , W. H. Matthaeus , E. Marsch , J. M. Weygand

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

To model the structure and dynamics of the heliosphere well enough for high-quality forecasting, it is essential to accurately estimate the global solar magnetic field used as inner boundary condition in solar wind models. However, our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Stephan G. Heinemann , Dan Yang , Shaela I. Jones , Jens Pomoell , Eleanna Asvestari , Carl J. Henney , Charles N. Arge , Laurent Gizon

The determination of horizontal velocity fields at the solar surface is crucial to understanding the dynamics and magnetism of the convection zone of the sun. These measurements can be done by tracking granules. Tracking granules from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Tkaczuk , M. Rieutord , N. Meunier , T. Roudier

Accurate modeling of the Sun's coronal magnetic field and solar wind structures require inputs of the solar global magnetic field, including both the near and far sides, but the Sun's far-side magnetic field cannot be directly observed.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-04 Ruizhu Chen , Junwei Zhao , Shea Hess Webber , Yang Liu , J. Todd Hoeksema , Marc L. Derosa

Improving methods for determining the subsurface structure of sunspots from their seismic signature requires a better understanding of the interaction of waves with magnetic field concentrations. We aim to quantify the impact of changes in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 T. Felipe , D. C. Braun , A. C. Birch

Oscillations detected on the solar surface provide a unique possibility for investigations of the interior properties of a star. Through major observational efforts, including extensive observations from space, as well as development of…

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