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The observed solar oscillation spectrum is influenced by internal perturbations such as flows and structural asphericities. These features induce splitting of characteristic frequencies and distort the resonant-mode eigenfunctions. Global…

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(abridged) Context: Solar-like differential rotation is characterized by a rapidly rotating equator and slower poles. However, theoretical models and numerical simulations can result in a slower equator and faster poles when the rotation is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-17 P. J. Käpylä , M. J. Käpylä , A. Brandenburg

Solar inertial modes have the potential to surpass the diagnostic capabilities of acoustic waves in probing the deep interior of the Sun. The fulfillment of this potential requires an accurate identification and characterization of these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-20 Chris S. Hanson , Vivek Menon , Shravan Hanasoge , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Global-scale Rossby waves have recently been unambiguously identified on the Sun. Here we study the latitude and depth dependence of the Rossby wave eigenfunctions. By applying helioseismic ring-diagram analysis and granulation tracking to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 B. Proxauf , L. Gizon , B. Löptien , J. Schou , A. C. Birch , R. S. Bogart

Inertial waves, which are dominantly driven by the Coriolis force, likely play an important role in solar dynamics, and additionally, provide a window into the solar subsurface. The latter allows us to infer properties that are inaccessible…

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The recent discovery of inertial waves on the surface of the Sun offers new possibilities to learn about the solar interior. These waves are long-lived with a period on the order of the Sun rotation period ($\sim$27 days) and are sensitive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-25 Tram Thi Ngoc Nguyen , Thorsten Hohage , Damien Fournier , Laurent Gizon

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

The general PDE governing linear, adiabatic, nonraradial oscillations in a spherical, differentially and slowly rotating non-magnetic star is derived. This equation describes mainly low-frequency and high-degree g-modes, convective g-modes,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. S. Dzhalilov , J. Staude

Solar internal rotation at high latitudes is poorly constrained by acoustic-mode helioseismology. Global inertial modes observed on the Sun are highly sensitive to solar differential rotation and may provide new diagnostics of rotation in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Prithwitosh Dey , Laurent Gizon , Yuto Bekki

Over the past decade, solar equatorial Rossby waves have been unambiguously identified and are considered potential diagnostics of solar interior dynamics. We investigate their inclined structure and temporal evolution in the solar interior…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-12 Oana Vesa , Junwei Zhao , Ruizhu Chen

Rapidly rotating fluids have a rotation profile which depends only on the distance from the rotation axis, in accordance with the Taylor-Proudman theorem. Although the Sun was expected to be such a body, helioseismology showed that the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-29 Yuto Bekki , Robert H. Cameron , Laurent Gizon

We show that the differential rotation profile of the solar convection zone, apart from inner and outer boundary layers, can be reproduced with great accu- racy if the isorotation contours correspond to characteristics of the thermal wind…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. A. Balbus , J. Bonart , H. N. Latter , N. O. Weiss

The goal of this research is to investigate how well various turbulence models can describe physical properties of the upper convective boundary layer of the Sun. An accurate modeling of the turbulence motions is necessary for understanding…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Jacoutot , A. G. Kosovichev , A. Wray , N. N. Mansour

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

Contemporary three-dimensional physics-based simulations of the solar convection zone disagree with observations. They feature differential rotation substantially different from the true rotation inferred by solar helioseismology and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-23 Parag Gupta , David MacTaggart , Radostin D. Simitev

The internal rotation of low mass stars all along their evolution is of primary interest when studying their rotational dynamics, internal mixing and magnetic fields generation. In this context, helio- and asteroseismology probe angular…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-05 Delphine Hypolite , Stéphane Mathis , Michel Rieutord

Radial velocity (RV) measurements are used to search for planets orbiting late-type main-sequence stars and confirm the transiting planets. The most advanced spectrometers are approaching a precision of $\sim 10$ cm/s that implies the need…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 A. F. Lanza , L. Gizon , T. V. Zaqarashvili , Z. -C. Liang , K. Rodenbeck

Radial and nonradial oscillations offer the opportunity to investigate the interior properties of stars. We use 2D stellar models and a 2D finite difference integration of the linearized pulsation equations to calculate non-radial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. C. Lovekin , R. G. Deupree

Turbulence and large-scale waves in the tropical region are studied using the spherical shallow water equations. With mesoscale vorticity forcing, both moist and dry systems show kinetic energy scaling that is dominated by rotational modes,…

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