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Ring-diagram analysis of acoustic waves observed at the photosphere can provide a relatively robust determination of the sub-surface flows at a particular time under a particular region. The depth of penetration of the waves is related to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 Richard S. Bogart , Charles S , . Baldner , Sarbani Basu

As a large-scale motion on the Sun, the meridional flow plays an important role in determining magnetic structure and strength and solar cycle. However, the meridional flow near the solar poles is still unclear. The Hinode observations show…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-29 Shuhong Yang , Jie Jiang , Zifan Wang , Yijun Hou , Chunlan Jin , Qiao Song , Yukun Luo , Ting Li , Jun Zhang , Yuzong Zhang , Guiping Zhou , Yuanyong Deng , Jingxiu Wang

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

Magnetic active regions on the Sun are harbingers of space weather events. Understanding the physics of how they form and evolve will improve space weather forecasting. Our aim is to characterise the surface magnetic field and flows for a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-08 Camron S. Alley , Hannah Schunker

Observations of rapidly rotating solar-like stars show a significant mixture of opposite-polarity magnetic fields within their polar regions. To explain these observations, models describing the surface transport of magnetic flux demand the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Holzwarth , D. H. Mackay , M. Jardine

Local helioseismology provides a unique opportunity to investigate the subsurface structure and dynamics of active regions and their effect on the large-scale flows and global circulation of the Sun. We use measurements of plasma flows in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-19 Alexander G. Kosovichev , Junwei Zhao , Stathis Ilonidis

Using time-distance local helioseismology flow maps within 1 Mm of the solar photosphere, we detect inflows toward activity belts that contribute to solar cycle scale variations in near-surface meridional flow. These inflows stretch out as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Sushant S. Mahajan , Xudong Sun , Junwei Zhao

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

Context. In local helioseismology, the travel times of acoustic waves propagating in opposite directions along the same meridian inform us about horizontal flows in the north-south direction. The longitudinal averages of the north-south…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Paul-Louis Poulier , Zhi-Chao Liang , Damien Fournier , Laurent Gizon

We report on new spectro-polarimetric measurements with simultaneous filter imaging observation, revealing the frequent appearance of polarization signals indicating high-speed, probably supersonic, downflows that are associated with at…

Maps of the magnetic field at the Sun's surface are commonly used as boundary conditions in space-weather modeling. However, continuous observations are only available from the Sun's Earth-facing side. One commonly used approach to mitigate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-02 Dan Yang , Stephan G. Heinemann , Robert H. Cameron , Laurent Gizon

Interactions between flows and magnetic fields in the Sun's plasma can change surface waves and flows near active regions, are evident in cyclic changes of large-scale phenomena such as the meridional circulation, and contribute to dynamics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-23 E. J. Zita , C. Smith , N. E. Hurlburt

We use helioseismic holography to study the association of shallow flows with solar flare activity in about 250 large sunspot groups observed between 2010 and 2014 with the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager on the Solar Dynamics Observatory.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-16 D. C. Braun

Recently, we have developed a method useful for mapping large-scale horizontal velocity fields in the solar photosphere. The method was developed, tuned and calibrated using the synthetic data. Now, we applied the method to the series of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michal Svanda , Mirek Klvana , Michal Sobotka , Vaclav Bumba

The meridional circulation of the solar magnetic fields in Solar Cycles 21-24 was considered. Data from both ground-based and space observatories were used. Three types of time-latitude distributions of photospheric magnetic fields and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-17 Irina A. Bilenko

The Sun features on its surface typical flow patterns called the granulation, mesogranulation, and supergranulation. These patterns arise due to convective flows transporting energy from the interior of the Sun to its surface. In this paper…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 J. I. Campos Rozo , D. Utz , S. Vargas Dominguez , A. Veronig , T. Van Doorsselaere

New developments in surface flux transport modeling and theory of flux transport dynamos have given rise to the notion that certain large active regions with anomalous properties (location, tilt angle and/or Hale/non-Hale character) may…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-18 K. Petrovay , M. Nagy

Using time-distance helioseismic measurements of meridional flow in the near-surface shear layer over a period of 14 years, starting from May 2010, we probe the depth structure and evolution of its cross-equatorial part. We confirm that the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Anisha Sen , S. P. Rajaguru , Ruizhu Chen , Junwei Zhao , Shukur Kholikov

The results of determinations of the azimuthal and meridional velocities by time-distance helioseismology from Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) onboard Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) from May 2010 to September 2020 at latitudes from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-26 Alexander V. Getling , Alexander G. Kosovichev , Junwei Zhao

In this work, we have studied the temporal evolution of some properties of a sample of superactive regions with the aim to single out the most significant for flare activity forecasting. We have investigated properties of 14 superactive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 S. Criscuoli , P. Romano , F. Zuccarello , F. Giorgi