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At high frequencies beyond the acoustic cut-off, a peak-like structure is visible in the solar power spectrum. Known as the pseudo-modes, their frequencies have been shown to vary in anti-phase with solar magnetic activity. In this work, we…

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Using an analytic model, we derive the eigenfrequencies for thermal Rossby waves that are trapped radially and latitudinally in an isentropically stratified atmosphere. We ignore the star's curvature and work in an equatorial f-plane…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-25 Rekha Jain , Bradley W. Hindman

The solar-cyle variation of acoustic mode frequencies has a frequency dependence related to the inverse mode inertia. The discrepancy between model predictions and measured oscillation frequencies for solar and solar-type stellar acoustic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 R. Howe , S. Basu , G. R. Davies , W. H. Ball , W. J. Chaplin , Y. Elsworth , R. Komm

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

Rossby waves arise due to the conservation of total vorticity in rotating fluids and may govern the large-scale dynamics of stellar interiors. Recent space missions collected huge information about the light curves and activity of many…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 M. Albekioni , T. V. Zaqarashvili , V. Kukhianidze

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…

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

Using full-disk observations obtained with the Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) on board the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft, we present variations of the solar acoustic mode frequencies caused by the solar activity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. C. Rabello-Soares , S. G. Korzennik , J. Schou

Low-m inertial modes have been recently discovered in the Sun's high-latitude regions. In this study, we characterize the observational properties of the m = 1 mode by analyzing time-distance subsurface flow maps. Synoptic flow maps,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-25 Boyang Ding , Junwei Zhao , Ruizhu Chen , Matthias Waidele , Sushant S. Mahajan , Oana Vesa

The solar tachocline at the bottom of the convection zone is an important region for the dynamics of the Sun and the solar dynamo. In this region, the sound speed inferred by global helioseismology exhibits a bump of approximately 0.4%…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 Junwei Zhao , Thomas Hartlep , A. G. Kosovichev , N. N. Mansour

Apart from the 11-year solar cycle, another periodicity around 155-160 days was discovered during solar cycle 21 in high energy solar flares, and its presence in sunspot areas and strong magnetic flux has been also reported. This…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 T. V. Zaqarashvili , M. Carbonell , R. Oliver , J. L. Ballster

Radial velocity (RV) measurements are used to search for planets orbiting late-type main-sequence stars and confirm the transiting planets. The most advanced spectrometers are approaching a precision of $\sim 10$ cm/s that implies the need…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 A. F. Lanza , L. Gizon , T. V. Zaqarashvili , Z. -C. Liang , K. Rodenbeck

Normal-mode helioseismic data analysis uses observed solar oscillation spectra to infer perturbations in the solar interior due to global and local-scale flows and structural asphericity. Differential rotation, the dominant global-scale…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-30 Samarth G. Kashyap , Srijan Bharati Das , Shravan M. Hanasoge , Martin F. Woodard , Jeroen Tromp

We present an adaptation of the rotation-corrected, m-averaged spectrum technique designed to observe low signal-to-noise-ratio, low-frequency solar p modes. The frequency shift of each of the 2l+1 m spectra of a given (n,l) multiplet is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 D. Salabert , J. Leibacher , T. Appourchaux , F. Hill

We analyse the spatial distribution of current helicity in solar active regions. A comparison of current helicity maps derived from three different instruments (Helioseismic and Magnetc Imager on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 A. S. Kutsenko , V. I. Abramenko , K. M. Kuzanyan , Haiqing Xu , Hongqi Zhang

Extending the sensitivity of terrestrial gravitational-wave detectors below 20 Hz is a long-standing challenge, limited by ground motion and inertial sensing noise. In this letter, we demonstrate ultra-high-vacuum compatible inertial…

The success of helioseismology is due to its capability to accurately measure the p-mode parameters of the solar eigenmode spectrum, which allow us to infer unique information about the internal structure and dynamics of the Sun. It also…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-14 D. Salabert

The quest of the knowledge of the structure and dynamics of the solar interior has been possible thanks to the study of the resonant acoustic (p) modes that are trapped in the solar interior. Since the solar rotation lifts the azimuthal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-03 R. A. Garcia

Local helioseismology has opened new frontiers in our quest for understanding of the internal dynamics and dynamo on the Sun. Local helioseismology reconstructs subsurface structures and flows by extracting coherent signals of acoustic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-20 Alexander G. Kosovichev , Junwei Zhao

The aim of this paper is to investigate whether there are any 11-yr or quasi-biennial solar cycle-related variations in solar rotational splitting frequencies of low-degree solar p modes. Although no 11-yr signals were observed, variations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Anne-Marie Broomhall , David Salabert , William J. Chaplin , Rafael A. Garcia , Yvonne Elsworth , Rachel Howe , Savita Mathur