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Solar torsional oscillations are migrating bands of slower- and faster-than-average rotation, which are strongly related to the Sun's magnetic cycle. We perform a long-term study (16 yr) of hemispherical asymmetry in solar torsional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-01 Lekshmi B , Dibyendu Nandy , H M Antia

The data of sunspot numbers, sunspot areas and solar flare index during cycle 23 are analyzed to investigate the intermediate-term periodicities. Power spectral analysis has been performed separately for the data of the whole disk, northern…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-16 Bhuwan Joshi , P. Pant , P. K. Manoharan

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

We present the initial results of an observational study into the variation of the dominant length-scale of quiet solar emission: supergranulation. This length-scale reflects the radiative energy in the plasma of the upper solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Scott W. McIntosh , Robert J. Leamon , Rachel A. Hock , Mark P. Rast , Roger K. Ulrich

We measure differential rotation and meridional flow in the Sun's surface shear layer by tracking the motions of the magnetic network seen in magnetograms from SOHO/MDI and SDO/HMI over solar cycles 23, 24, and the start of 25 (1996-2022).…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-22 David H. Hathaway , Lisa A. Upton , Sushant S. Mahajan

We study the asymmetric distribution of weak photospheric magnetic field values in the two hemispheres separately using synoptic maps from SDO/HMI, SOLIS/VSM and WSO during solar cycles 21-24. We calculate the weak-field asymmetry (shift)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Tibebu Getachew , Ilpo Virtanen , Kalevi Mursula

We study temporal variations in the amplitudes and widths of high-degree acoustic modes in the quiet and active Sun by applying ring-diagram technique to the GONG+ and MDI Dopplergrams during the declining phase of cycle 23. The increase in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Olga Burtseva , S. C. Tripathy , R. Howe , K. Jain , F. Hill , R. Bogart , M. C. Rabello-Soares

We analyze Sun-as-a-star observations spanning over solar cycles 22 -- 24 from the ground-based network BiSON and solar cycles 23 -- 24 collected by the space-based VIRGO and GOLF instruments on board the {\it SoHO} satellite. Using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Kiran Jain , Sushanta Tripathy , Frank Hill , David Salabert , Rafael A. Garcia , Anne-Marie Broomhall

To better understand the influence of the activity cycle on the solar atmosphere, we report the time variation of the radius observed at 37 GHz ($\lambda$=8.1 mm) obtained by the Mets\"ahovi Radio Observatory (MRO) through Solar Cycles 22…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-17 Caius L. Selhorst , Juha Kallunki , C. G. Giménez de Castro , Adriana Valio , Joaquim E. R. Costa

Magnetic activity changes the gravito-acoustic modes of solar-like stars and in particular their frequencies. There is an angular-degree dependence that is believed to be caused by the non-spherical nature of the magnetic activity in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-26 F. Perez Hernandez , R. A. Garcia , S. Mathur , A. R. G. Santos , C. Regulo

Activity-related variations in the solar oscillation properties have been known for 30 years. However, the relative importance of the different contributions to the observed variations is not yet fully understood. Our goal is to estimate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-24 A. R. G. Santos , M. S. Cunha , P. P. Avelino , W. J. Chaplin , T. L. Campante

The solar northern and southern hemispheres exhibit differences between the intensities and time profiles of the activity cycles. The time variation of these properties has been studied in a previous article on the data of Cycles 12-23. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-29 Judit Muraközy

The Sun's polar magnetic fields are directly related to solar cycle variability. The strength of the polar fields at the start (minimum) of a cycle determine the subsequent amplitude of that cycle. In addition, the polar field reversals at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-01 Lisa Upton , David H. Hathaway

The level of solar magnetic activity, as exemplified by the number of sunspots and by energetic events in the corona, varies on a wide range of time scales. Most prominent is the 11-year solar cycle, which is significantly modulated on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 Robert Cameron , Manfred Schüssler

The discovery of the solar activity cycle was linked from the outset to the observation of the temporal variability of sunspots, which we know to be the result of complex processes associated with the dynamics of inner layers. Numerous…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-04 Jean-Pierre Rozelot , Alexander Kosovichev , Irina Kitiashvili

The goal of this research is to investigate how magnetic field affects the dynamics of granular convection and excitation of solar oscillations by means of realistic numerical simulations. We have used a 3D, compressible, non-linear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-05-27 L. Jacoutot , A. G. Kosovichev , A. Wray , N. N. Mansour

Solar active regions (ARs) are crucial for understanding the long-term evolution of solar activities and predicting eruptive phenomena, including solar flares and coronal mass ejections. However, the cycle-dependent properties in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-25 Yuxia Liu , Tingting Xu , Miao Wan , Linhua Deng , Xinhua Zhao , Shiyang Qi , Nanbin Xiang , Weihong Zhou

Two sequences of solar images obtained by the Transition Region and Coronal Explorer in three UV passbands are studied using wavelet and Fourier analysis and compared to the photospheric magnetic flux measured by the Michelson Doppler…

We review recent insights into the dynamics of the solar convection zone obtained from global numerical simulations, focusing on two recent developments in particular. The first is quasi-cyclic magnetic activity in a long-duration dynamo…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Mark S. Miesch , Benjamin P. Brown , Matthew K. Browning , Allan Sacha Brun , Juri Toomre

Solar cycle is modeled as a forced and damped harmonic oscillator and the amplitudes, frequencies, phases and decay factors of such a harmonic oscillator are estimated by non-linear fitting the equation of sinusoidal and transient parts to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-12 K M Hiremath