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Small cyclic variations in the frequencies of acoustic modes are expected to be a common phenomenon in solar-like pulsators, as a result of stellar magnetic activity cycles. The frequency variations observed throughout the solar and stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 A. R. G. Santos , M. S. Cunha , J. J. G. Lima

We investigate spatio-temporal evolution of high-degree acoustic mode frequencies of the Sun and the surface magnetic activity, over the course of multiple solar cycles, to improve our understanding of the connection between the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-20 Mackenzie A. Baird , Sushanta C. Tripathy , Kiran Jain

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

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

Long-lived rotational and meridional flows are important ingredients of the solar cycle. Magnetic field images have typically been used to measure these flows on the solar surface by cross-correlating thin longitudinal strips or square…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Derek A. Lamb

Context: Helioseismology aims to infer the properties of the solar interior by analyzing observations of acoustic oscillations. The interpretation of the helioseismic data is however complicated by the non-trivial relationship between…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-29 D. Fournier , N. M. Kostogryz , L. Gizon , J. Schou , V. Witzke , A. I. Shapiro , I. Milic

We derive formulae connecting the frequency variations in the spectrum of solar oscillations to the dynamical quantities that are expected to change over the solar activity cycle. This is done for both centroids and the asymmetric part of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. A. Dziembowski , P. R. Goode

Observations of the solar surface reveal the presence of flows with length scales of around $35$ Mm, commonly referred to as supergranules. Inferring the sub-surface flow profile of supergranules from measurements of the surface and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 Jishnu Bhattacharya , Shravan M. Hanasoge

Understanding the global rotational profile of the solar atmosphere and its variation is fundamental to uncovering a comprehensive understanding of the dynamics of the solar magnetic field and the extent of coupling between different layers…

In a real medium which has oscillations, the perturbations can cause the energy transfer between different modes. The perturbation interpreted as an interaction between the modes is inferred as mode coupling. Mode coupling process in an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Zahra Fazel

Asteroseismic inferences of main-sequence solar-like oscillators often rely on best-fit models. However, these models cannot fully reproduce the observed mode frequencies, suggesting that the internal structure of the model does not fully…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Lynn Buchele , Earl P. Bellinger , Saskia Hekker , Sarbani Basu

Helioseismology has revealed that the angular velocity of the Sun increases with depth in the outermost 35 Mm of the Sun. Recently, we have shown that the logarithmic radial gradient ($\rm d\ln\Omega/\rm d\ln r $) in the upper 10~Mm is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-02 Atefeh Barekat , Jesper Schou , Laurent Gizon

We present the identification of very low frequency g modes in the asymptotic regime and two important parameters that have long been waited for: the core rotation rate, and the asymptotic equidistant period spacing of these g modes. The…

Advances in hydrodynamical simulations have provided new insights into the effects of convection on the frequencies of solar oscillations. As more accurate observations become available, this may lead to an improved understanding of the…

We use the three-dimensional hydrodynamic code of Stein and Nordlund to realistically simulate the upper layers of the solar convection zone in order to study physical characteristics of solar oscillations. Our first result is that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Georgobiani , A. G. Kosovichev , R. Nigam , A. Nordlund , R. F. Stein

Adiabatic oscillation frequencies of stellar models, computed with the standard mixing-length formulation for convection, increasingly deviate with radial order from observations in solar-like stars. Standard solar models overestimate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 G. Houdek , R. Trampedach , M. J. Aarslev , J. Christensen-Dalsgaard

Solar differential rotation exhibits a prominent feature: its cyclic variations over the solar cycle, referred to as zonal flows or torsional oscillations, are observed throughout the convection zone. Given the challenge of measuring…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-27 Krishnendu Mandal , Alexander G. Kosovichev , Valery V. Pipin

The temporal variations of the rotation rate in the solar interior are studied using frequency splittings from Global Oscillations Network Group (GONG) data obtained during the period 1995-99. We find alternating latitudinal bands of faster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. M. Antia , Sarbani Basu

Using the local helioseismic technique of ring diagram we analyze the frequencies of high--degree f- and p-modes derived from both velocity and continuum intensity data observed by MDI. Fitting the spectra with asymmetric peak profiles, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 S. C. Tripathy , H. M. Antia , Kiran Jain , F. Hill

Poor modelling of the surface regions of solar-like stars causes a systematic discrepancy between the observed and model pulsation frequencies. We aim to characterise this frequency discrepancy for main sequence solar-like oscillators for a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-28 D. L. Compton , T. R. Bedding , W. H. Ball , D. Stello , D. Huber , T. R. White , H. Kjeldsen