English
Related papers

Related papers: Structural Tilting and Depth-Dependent Behavior of…

200 papers

The activity of the Sun as a result of cyclic changes of the global magnetic field is studied. As a consequence of the analysis of magnetic activity of solar-type stars the following power dependencies were found: the dependence between the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-22 E. A. Bruevich , I. K. Rozgacheva

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

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

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

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

We report our first results on comparing the variations of the solar internal rotation with solar activity, as predicted by non-linear solar dynamo modelling, with helioseismic measurements using the SOHO MDI data.

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Vorontsov , R. Tavakol , E. Covas , D. Moss

Retrograde Rossby waves, measured to have significant amplitudes in the Sun, likely have notable implications for various solar phenomena. Rossby waves create small-amplitude, very-low frequency motions (on the order of the rotation rate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 K. Mandal , S. M. Hanasoge , L. Gizon

The Schwabe cycle of solar activity exhibits modulations and frequency fluctuations on slow time scales of centuries and millennia. Plausible physical explanations for the cause of these long-term variations of the solar cycle are still…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-08 Breno Raphaldini , André Seiji Teruya , Carlos Frederico Mendonca Raupp , Miguel D. Bustamante

Understanding the global rotational profile of the solar atmosphere and its variation is fundamental to uncovering a comprehensive understanding of the dynamics of the solar magnetic field and the extent of coupling between different layers…

The evolution of the solar activity comprises, apart from the well-known 11-year cycle, various temporal scales ranging from months up to the secondary cycles known as mid-term oscillations. Its nature deserves a physical explanation. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-04 D. D. Sokoloff , A. S. Shibalova , V. N. Obridko , V. V. Pipin

The magnetic fields of solar-type stars are observed to cycle over decadal periods -11 years in the case of the Sun. The fields originate in the turbulent convective layers of stars and have a complex dependency upon stellar rotation rate.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 A. Strugarek , P. Beaudoin , P. Charbonneau , A. S. Brun , J. -D. do Nascimento

We present evidence that the allowed periods of equatorially trapped Rossby wave modes on the Sun coincide closely with the 88 day period and 176 day sub harmonic period of Mercury and evidence of Rossby waves on the Sun at the same…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-15 Ian Edmonds

We analyse the relation between the activity cycle length and the Rossby number and collected a sample of 44 main sequence stars with well-known activity cycle periods and rotation periods. We find a linear behaviour in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 M. Mittag , J. H. M. M. Schmitt , K. -P. Schröder

The recent discovery of inertial waves on the surface of the Sun offers new possibilities to learn about the solar interior. These waves are long-lived with a period on the order of the Sun rotation period ($\sim$27 days) and are sensitive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-25 Tram Thi Ngoc Nguyen , Thorsten Hohage , Damien Fournier , Laurent Gizon

Spectral analysis of the spatial structure of solar subphotospheric convection is carried out for subsurface flow maps constructed using the time--distance helioseismological technique. The source data are obtained from the Helioseismic and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-27 Alexander V. Getling , Alexander G. Kosovichev

Understanding solar turbulent convection and its influence on differential rotation has been a challenge over the past two decades. Current models often overestimate giant convection cells amplitude, leading to an effective Rossby number…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-12 Quentin Noraz , Allan Sacha Brun , Antoine Strugarek

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

Solar inertial modes are believed to play important diagnostic and dynamical roles in the Sun's differentially rotating convection zone. However, the coupling of these modes to the radiative interior has not yet been discussed. We aim to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 Suprabha Mukhopadhyay , Yuto Bekki , Xiaojue Zhu , Laurent Gizon

The precise shape of the Sun is sensitive to the influence of gravity, differential rotation, local turbulence and magnetic fields. It has been previously shown that the solar shape exhibits asphericity that evolves with the 11-year cycle.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 A. G. Kosovichev , J. -P. Rozelot

The calling card of solar magnetism is the sunspot cycle, during which sunspots regularly reverse their polarity sense every 11 years. However, a number of more complicated time-dependent behaviors have also been identified. In particular,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-06 Loren Matilsky , Juri Toomre