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We present self-consistent numerical simulations of the sun's convection zone and radiative interior using a two-dimensional model of its equatorial plane. The background reference state is a one-dimensional solar structure model. Turbulent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tamara M. Rogers , Gary A. Glatzmaier

Helioseismic holography is an imaging technique used to study heterogeneities and flows in the solar interior from observations of solar oscillations at the surface. Holograms contain noise due to the stochastic nature of solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 Laurent Gizon , Damien Fournier , Dan Yang , Aaron C. Birch , Hélène Barucq

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

Spherical solar dynamo simulations are performed. Self-consistent, fully compressible magnetohydrodynamic system with a stably stratified layer below the convective envelope is numerically solved with a newly developed simulation code based…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Youhei Masada , Kohei Yamada , Akira Kageyama

The solar-cyle variation of acoustic mode frequencies has a frequency dependence related to the inverse mode inertia. The discrepancy between model predictions and measured oscillation frequencies for solar and solar-type stellar acoustic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 R. Howe , S. Basu , G. R. Davies , W. H. Ball , W. J. Chaplin , Y. Elsworth , R. Komm

We consider a dynamo wave in the solar convective shell for the kinematic $\alpha\omega$-dynamo model. The spectrum and eigenfunctions of the corresponding equations are derived analytically with the aid of the WKB method. Our main aim here…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Victor Galitski , D. D. Sokoloff

We study the properties of internal gravity waves (IGWs) detected in synthetic observations that are obtained from realistic numerical simulation of the solar atmosphere. We used four different simulations of the solar magneto-convection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 G. Vigeesh , M. Roth

We describe a global parametric model for the observed power spectra of solar oscillations of intermediate and low degree. A physically motivated parameterization is used as a substitute for a direct description of mode excitation and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Sergei V. Vorontsov , Stuart M. Jefferies

The solar torsional oscillations, i.e., the perturbations of the angular velocity of rotation associated with the eleven-year activity cycle, are a manifestation of the interaction among the interior magnetic fields, amplified and modulated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Antonino F. Lanza

A method for solving the half-space Sommerfeld problem is proposed, which allows us to obtain exact solutions in the form of Sommerfeld integrals, as well as their short-wave asymptotics. The first carried out by reducing the Sommerfeld…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-05-15 Seil Sautbekov

We give a characterisation of the spectral properties of linear differential operators with constant coefficients, acting on functions defined on a bounded interval, and determined by general linear boundary conditions. The boundary…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-22 David Andrew Smith , Beatrice Pelloni

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

Spacecraft observations showed that electron heat conduction in the solar wind is probably regulated by whistler waves, whose origin and efficiency in electron heat flux suppression is actively investigated. In this paper, we present…

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

Recently observed oscillations in the solar atmosphere have been interpreted and modeled as magnetohydrodynamic wave modes. This has allowed the estimation of parameters that are otherwise hard to derive, such as the coronal magnetic-field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-07 Jack Ireland , Michael S. Marsh , Therese A. Kucera , Christopher A. Young

The observed splittings of solar oscillation frequencies can be employed to separate the effects of internal solar rotation and to estimate the contribution from a large-scale magnetic field or any latitude-dependent thermal perturbation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. M. Antia , S. M. Chitre , M. J. Thompson

Here we present a numerical method for finding non-hydrostatic coastal-trapped wave and instability solutions to the non-hydrostatic Boussinesq equations in the presence of a background flow and complicated coastal topography. We use…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-12 Matthew N. Crowe , Edward R. Johnson

In geophysical environments, wave motions that are shaped by the action of gravity and global rotation bear the name of gravito-inertial waves. We present a geometrical description of gravito-inertial surface waves, which are low-frequency…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Yves Colin de Verdière , Jérémie Vidal

Normal modes are coupled by the presence of perturbations in the Sun, providing a novel and under-appreciated helioseismic technique with which to image the solar interior. The process of measuring coupling between normal modes is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Shravan Hanasoge

The effects of acoustic wave absorption, mode conversion and transmission by a sunspot on the helioseismic inferences are widely discussed, but yet accounting for them has proved difficult for lack of a consistent framework within…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-26 S. P. Rajaguru