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Solar inertial modes have the potential to surpass the diagnostic capabilities of acoustic waves in probing the deep interior of the Sun. The fulfillment of this potential requires an accurate identification and characterization of these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-20 Chris S. Hanson , Vivek Menon , Shravan Hanasoge , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Several recent studies utilizing different helioseismic methods have confirmed the presence of large-scale vorticity waves known as solar Rossby waves within the Sun. Rossby waves are distinct from acoustic waves, typically with longer…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-15 M. Waidele , Junwei Zhao

In a previous paper we studied the effect of latitudinal rotation on solar equatorial Rossby modes in the beta-plane approximation. Since then, a rich spectrum of inertial modes has been observed on the Sun, which is not limited to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-10 Damien Fournier , Laurent Gizon , Laura Hyest

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

Several types of inertial modes have been detected on the Sun. Properties of these inertial modes have been studied in the linear regime but have not been studied in nonlinear simulations of solar rotating convection. Comparing the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-19 Yuto Bekki , Robert H. Cameron , Laurent Gizon

Over the past decade, solar equatorial Rossby waves have been unambiguously identified and are considered potential diagnostics of solar interior dynamics. We investigate their inclined structure and temporal evolution in the solar interior…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-12 Oana Vesa , Junwei Zhao , Ruizhu Chen

Retrograde-propagating waves of vertical vorticity with longitudinal wavenumbers between 3 and 15 have been observed on the Sun with a dispersion relation close to that of classical sectoral Rossby waves. The observed vorticity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 L. Gizon , D. Fournier , M. Albekioni

Retrograde waves with frequencies much lower than the rotation frequency become trapped in the solar radiative interior. The eigenfunctions of the compressible, nonadiabatic, Rossby-like modes ($\epsilon$-mechanism and radiative losses…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. S. Dzhalilov , J. Staude , V. N. Oraevsky

Various types of inertial modes have been observed and identified on the Sun, including the equatorial Rossby modes, critical-latitude modes, and high-latitude modes. Recent observations further report a detection of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-20 Yuto Bekki

Large-scale Rossby waves have recently been discovered from measurements of horizontal surface and near-surface solar flows (L\"optien at al. 2018). We are interested in understanding why only the sectoral modes are seen in the observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 C. Damiani , R. H. Cameron , A. C. Birch , L. Gizon

Helioseismic signatures of dynamo waves have recently been discovered in variations of the solar differential rotation, offering valuable insights into the type of dynamo mechanism operating in the solar convection zone. To characterize…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-19 Krishnendu Mandal , Alexander G. Kosovichev , Valery V. Pipin , Sylvain G. Korzennik

The Sun's global inertial modes are very sensitive to the solar differential rotation and to properties of the deep solar convection zone which are currently poorly constrained. These properties include the superadiabatic temperature…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-25 Laurent Gizon , Yuto Bekki , Aaron C. Birch , Robert H. Cameron , Damien Fournier , Jordan Philidet , B. Lekshmi , Zhi-Chao Liang

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

Inertial waves, which are dominantly driven by the Coriolis force, likely play an important role in solar dynamics, and additionally, provide a window into the solar subsurface. The latter allows us to infer properties that are inaccessible…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Jishnu Bhattacharya , Shravan M. Hanasoge

Accurate determination of the rotation rate in the radiative zone of the sun from helioseismic observations requires rotational frequency splittings of exceptional quality as well as reliable inversion techniques. We present here inferences…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Eff-Darwich , S. G. Korzennik , S. J. Jimenez-Reyes , R. A. Garcia

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 observed solar oscillation spectrum is influenced by internal perturbations such as flows and structural asphericities. These features induce splitting of characteristic frequencies and distort the resonant-mode eigenfunctions. Global…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-26 Srijan Bharati Das , Samarth G. Kashyap , Deniz Oktay , Shravan M. Hanasoge , Jeroen Tromp

Context. Large-scale equatorial Rossby modes have been observed on the Sun over the last two solar cycles. Aims. We investigate the impact of the time-varying zonal flows on the frequencies of Rossby modes. Methods. A first-order…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-05 C. R. Goddard , A. C. Birch , D. Fournier , L. Gizon

The Sun supports a rich spectrum of internal waves that are continuously excited by turbulent convection. The GONG network and the MDI/SOHO space instrument provide an exceptional data base of spatially-resolved observations of solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 L. Gizon , A. C. Birch , H. C. Spruit

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