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Helioseismic waves observable at the solar surface can be used to probe the properties of the Sun's interior. By measuring helioseismic travel times between different location on the surface, flows and other interior properties can be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Thomas Hartlep , Junwei Zhao

The measurement of the Sun's surface motions with a high spatial and temporal resolution is still a challenge. We wish to validate horizontal velocity measurements all over the visible disk of the Sun from Solar Dynamics Observatory/…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Th. Roudier , M. Rieutord , V. Prat , J. M. Malherbe , N. Renon , Z. Frank , M. Svanda , T. Berger , R. Burston , L. Gizon

Time-distance helioseismology provides information about vector flows in the near-surface layers of the Sun by measuring wave travel times between points on the solar surface. Specific spatial averages of travel times have been proposed for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-05 Jan Langfellner , Laurent Gizon , Aaron C. Birch

We use state-of-the-art, three-dimensional non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (non-LTE) radiative magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the quiet solar atmosphere to carry out detailed tests of chromospheric magnetic field diagnostics from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 Maria Loukitcheva , Stephen M. White , Sami K. Solanki , Gregory D. Fleishman , Mats Carlsson

An accurate measurement of magnetic field is very important for understanding the formation and evolution of solar magnetic fields. Currently there are two types of solar magnetic field measurement instruments: the filter-based…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-10 Mei Zhang , Haocheng Zhang , Chengqing Jiang

Solar activity is usually caused by the evolution of solar magnetic fields. Magnetic field parameters derived from photospheric vector magnetograms of solar active regions have been used to analyze and forecast eruptive events such as solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Haodi Jiang , Qin Li , Zhihang Hu , Nian Liu , Yasser Abduallah , Ju Jing , Genwei Zhang , Yan Xu , Wynne Hsu , Jason T. L. Wang , Haimin Wang

Solar inertial modes are quasi-toroidal modes of the Sun that are of practical interest as they allow probing the deep convection zone. Since 2010, solar images of the photospheric magnetic field are made available by HMI onboard the Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-10 Neelanchal Joshi , Zhi-Chao Liang , Damien Fournier , Laurent Gizon

We report on the changes of the Sun's subsurface stratification inferred from helioseismology data. Using SOHO/MDI (SOlar and Heliospheric Observatory/Michelson Doppler Imager) data for the last 9 years and, more precisely, the temporal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sandrine Lefebvre , Alexander Kosovichev

Helioseismic techniques such as ring-diagram analysis have often been used to determine the subsurface structural differences between solar active and quiet regions. Results obtained by inverting the frequency differences between the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chia-Hsien Lin , Sarbani Basu , Linghuai Li

Surface heterogeneity, particularly complex patterns of surface heating, significantly influences mesoscale atmospheric flows, yet observational constraints and modeling limitations have hindered comprehensive understanding and model…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-11-10 Tyler Waterman , Peter Germ , Marc Calaf , Eric Pardyjak , Nathaniel Chaney

Helioseismology has produced unprecedented measurements of the Sun's internal structure and dynamics over the past 25 years. Much of this work has been based on global helioseismology. Now local helioseismology too is showing its great…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-23 M. J. Thompson

We carry out an unprecedented high-resolution simulation for the solar convection zone. Our calculation reproduces the fast equator and near-surface shear layer (NSSL) of differential rotation and the near-surface poleward meridional flow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-09 H. Hotta

We introduce a velocimetry technique based on the Doppler-shift of surface waves propagating between an emitter and a receiver. In the limit of scale separation between the wavelength and the scale of the flow, we derive the direct…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-09 T. Humbert , S. Aumaître , B. Gallet

The Smallest Scale of Hierarchy (SSH) survey is an ongoing strategic large program at the Large Binocular Telescope, aimed at the detection of faint stellar streams and satellites around 45 late-type dwarf galaxies located in the Local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 F. Annibali , G. Beccari , M. Bellazzini , M. Tosi , F. Cusano , D. Paris , M. Cignoni , L. Ciotti , C. Nipoti , E. Sacchi

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…

The dynamics of horizontal plasma flows during the first hours of the emergence of active region magnetic flux in the solar photosphere have been analyzed using SOHO/MDI data. Four active regions emerging near the solar limb have been…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-01 A. Khlystova

The first observations of seismic responses to solar flares were carried out using time-distance (TD) and holography techniques applied to SOHO/MDI Dopplergrams obtained from space and un-affected by terrestrial atmospheric disturbances.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 S. Zharkov , V. V. Zharkova , S. A. Matthews

Accurate measurements of deep solar meridional flow are of vital interest for understanding the solar dynamo. In this paper, we validate a recently developed method for obtaining sensitivity functions (kernels) for travel-time measurements…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 Vincent G. A. Böning , Markus Roth , Jason Jackiewicz , Shukur Kholikov

We examine spectropolarimetric data from the CoMP instrument, acquired during the evolution of the September 10th 2017 X8.2 solar flare on the western solar limb. CoMP captured linearly polarized light from two emission lines of Fe XIII at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-25 Ryan J. French , Philip G. Judge , Sarah A. Matthews , Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi

In helioseismic studies, an observational parameter of primary concern is the P-angle, the angle along which lies the solar axis of rotation for a given image. For the six observing sites employed by The Global Oscillation Network Group…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-17 Anna L. H. Hughes , Irene Gonzalez-Hernandez , Sean G. McManus , Kiran Jain , Sushanta C. Tripathy