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Although the interplanetary magnetic field variability has been extensively investigated in situ by means of data coming from several space missions, the newly launched missions providing high-resolution measures and approaching the Sun,…

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Charged particles, generated in solar flares, sometimes can get extremely high energy, above the 500 MeV level, and produce abrupt ground level enhancements (GLEs) on the ground-based detectors of cosmic rays. The initial flares are strong…

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Solar activity variations strongly impact the modulation of the flux of low-energy Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCRs) reaching the Earth. The secondary particles, which originate from the interaction of GCRs with the atmosphere, can be revealed by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-24 C. Taricco , I. Bizzarri , C. Dionese , S. Mancuso

The spatial inhomogeneity of the distribution of coronal mass ejection (CME) occurrences in the solar atmosphere could provide a tool to estimate the longitudinal position of the most probable CME-capable active regions in the Sun. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-30 N. Gyenge , T. Singh , T. S. Kiss , A. K. Srivastava , R. Erdélyi

Most of the intracyclic variability in the large-scale solar magnetic field comes from the equatorial dipole component of the solar magnetic field. The equatorial dipole component is highly sensitive to the longitude distribution of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-09 Ismo Tähtinen , Timo Asikainen , Kalevi Mursula

We study the distribution of magnetic shear in an emerging flux region using the high-resolution Hinode/SOT SP observations. The distribution of mean magnetic shear angle across the active region shows large values near region of flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Sanjay Gosain

The historical reconstruction of the Sun's surface magnetic field remains a persistent challenge, limiting our ability to investigate the long-term global properties of the Sun, including the evolution of the large-scale magnetic field,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-25 Bibhuti Kumar Jha , Lisa A. Upton , Greg Kopp , Odele Coddington

Seeking to establish whether active region upflow material contributes to the slow solar wind, we examine in detail the plasma upflows from Active Region (AR)10978, which crossed the Sun's disc in the interval 8 to 16 December, 2007 during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 J. L. Culhane , D. H. Brooks , L. van Driel-Gesztelyi , P. Demoulin , D. Baker , M. L. DeRosa , C. H. Mandrini , L. Zhao , T. H. Zurbuchen

We present evidence of hitherto undiscovered global-scale oscillations in the near-surface shear layer of the Sun. These oscillations are seen as large scale variations of radial shear in both the zonal and meridional flows relative to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Richard S. Bogart , Charles S. Baldner , Sarbani Basu , Rachel Howe , Maria Cristina Rabello Soares

Active region 11029 was a small, highly flare-productive solar active region observed at a time of extremely low solar activity. The region produced only small flares: the largest of the $>70$ Geostationary Observational Environmental…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. S. Wheatland

To model the structure and dynamics of the heliosphere well enough for high-quality forecasting, it is essential to accurately estimate the global solar magnetic field used as inner boundary condition in solar wind models. However, our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Stephan G. Heinemann , Dan Yang , Shaela I. Jones , Jens Pomoell , Eleanna Asvestari , Carl J. Henney , Charles N. Arge , Laurent Gizon

The longitudinal distribution of solar active regions shows non-homogeneous spatial behaviour, which is often referred to as Active Longitude (AL). Evidence for a significant statistical relationships between the AL and the longitudinal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 N. Gyenge , R. Erdélyi

Large solar active regions (ARs) tend to be long lived and spatially clustered, with repeated emergence occurring in persistent solar activity nests over extended timescales. By analyzing long-term spatiotemporal magnetic flux maps…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-26 Junwei Zhao , Ruizhu Chen , Aimee A Norton

Sequences of line-of-sight (LOS) magnetograms recorded by the Michelson-Doppler Imager are used to quantitatively characterize photospheric magnetic structure and evolution in three active regions that rotated across the Sun's disk during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 B. T. Welsch , S. Christe , J. M. McTiernan

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

Observations show that the coronal X-ray emission of the Sun and other stars depends on the surface magnetic field. Using power-law scaling relations between different physical parameters, we build an analytical model to connect the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 J. Zhuleku , J. Warnecke , H. Peter

It is shown that in the presence of anisotropic kinetic dissipation existence of scale invariant power law spectrum of plasma turbulence is possible. Obtained scale invariant spectrum is not associated with the constant flux of any physical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Grigol Gogoberidze

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…

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