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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

We have been monitoring yearly variation in the Sun's polar magnetic fields with the Solar Optical Telescope aboard {\it Hinode} to record their evolution and expected reversal near the solar maximum. All magnetic patches in the magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 D. Shiota , S. Tsuneta , M. Shimojo , N. Sako , D. Orozco Suárez , R. Ishikawa

Using the polar vector magnetic field data observed by Hinode from 2012 to 2021, we study the long-term variations of the magnetic flux, the flux proportion of different polarities, and the magnetic inclination with respect to the local…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-25 Shuhong Yang , Chunlan Jin , Qiao Song , Yuzong Zhang , Yin Li , Yijun Hou , Ting Li , Guiping Zhou , Yuanyong Deng , Jingxiu Wang

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

Based on data obtained from Wilcox Solar Observatiry the solar polar magnetic fields reversals in cycles 21\,--\,25 were considered. The results indicate that the polarity reversal occurs at the maximum of sunspot activity of each cycle,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 Irina A. Bilenko

We study the magnetic flux carried by pores located outside active regions with sunspots and investigate their possible contribution to the reversal of the global magnetic field of the Sun. We find that they contain a total flux of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-10 M. Svanda , A. S. Brun , Th. Roudier , L. Jouve

Synoptic magnetograms and relevant proxy data were analyzed to study the evolution of the Sun's polar magnetic fields. Time-latitude analysis of large-scale magnetic fields demonstrates cyclic changes in their zonal structure and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 A. V. Mordvinov , L. L. Kitchatinov

We present the magnetic landscape of the polar region of the Sun that is unprecedented in terms of high spatial resolution, large field of view, and polarimetric precision. These observations were carried out with the Solar Optical…

The polar field reversal is a crucial process in the cyclic evolution of the large-scale magnetic field of the Sun.Various important characteristics of a solar cycle, such as its duration and strength, and also the cycle predictability, are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 Elena M. Golubeva , Akash Biswas , Anna I. Khlystova , Pawan Kumar , Bidya Binay Karak

Rotation of the large scale solar magnetic field has a great importance for the understanding of solar dynamic, for the search of longitidinal structure and for the study of solar-terrestrial relations. 30-year long observations taken at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-08 E. A. Gavryuseva

The magnetic fields and dynamical processes in the solar polar regions play a crucial role in the solar magnetic cycle and in supplying mass and energy to the fast solar wind, ultimately being vital in controlling solar activities and…

Analysis of synoptic data from the Vector Stokes Magnetograph (VSM) of the Synoptic Optical Long-term Investigations of the Sun (SOLIS) and the NASA/NSO Spectromagnetograph (SPM) at the NSO/Kitt Peak Vacuum Telescope facility shows that the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-09 Alexander V. Mordvinov , Alexei A. Pevtsov , Luca Bertello , Gordon J. D. Petrie

The magnetic fields in the solar polar region are important to our understanding of the internal dynamo process, the global coronal structure, and the origin of the solar wind. The inference of polar fields based on spectropolarimetric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-16 Bryan Yamashiro , Xudong Sun , Ivan Milić , Carlos Quintero Noda , Adur Pastor Yabar , Rebecca Centeno , Jiayi Liu , Milan Gošić , Kai Yang

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

Magnetograms from the Vector SpectroMagnetograph (VSM) of the Synoptic Optical Long-term Investigations of the Sun (SOLIS) project are utilized to study the latitude distribution of magnetic flux elements as a function of latitude in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-03 N. -E. Raouafi , J. W. Harvey , C. J. Henney

We characterize the orientation of polar plumes as a tracer of the large-scale coronal magnetic field configuration. We monitor in particular the north and south magnetic pole locations and the magnetic opening during 2007-2008 and provide…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Judith de Patoul , Bernd Inhester , Robert Cameron

Observations of the polar region of the Sun are critically important for understanding the solar dynamo and the acceleration of solar wind. We carried out precise magnetic observations on both the North polar region and the quiet Sun at the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Hiroaki Ito , Saku Tsuneta , Daikou Shiota , Munetoshi Tokumaru , Ken'ichi Fujiki

We investigated the role of photospheric plasma motions in the formation and evolution of polar magnetic patches using time-sequence observations with high spatial resolution. The observations were obtained with the spectropolarimeter on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Anjali John Kaithakkal , Y. Suematsu , M. Kubo , Y. Iida , D. Shiota , S. Tsuneta

The Sun's polar magnetic fields change their polarity near the maximum of sunspot activity. We analyzed the polarity reversal epochs in Solar Cycles 21 to 24. There was a triple reversal in the N-hemisphere in Solar Cycle 24 and single…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 Mykola I. Pishkalo

Despite investments in multiple space and ground-based solar observatories by the global community, the Sun's polar regions remain unchartered territory - the last great frontier for solar observations. Breaching this frontier is…

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