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A time series of GONG Dopplergrams for the period 10-14 May 1997 from Udaipur and Big Bear sites has been used to measure the velocity fluctuations in the sunspot (NOAA active region 8038) and quiet photosphere simultaneously. We observe…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Brajesh Kumar , R. Jain , S. C. Tripathy , Hari Om Vats , M. R. Deshpande

Parker Solar Probe (PSP) observations during its first encounter at 35.7 $R_\odot$ have shown the presence of magnetic field lines which are strongly perturbed to the point that they produce local inversions of the radial magnetic field,…

Context. The Sun and solar-like stars undergo activity cycles for which the underlying mechanisms are not well understood. The oscillations of the Sun are known to vary with its activity cycle and these changes provide diagnostics on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 René Kiefer , Ariane Schad , Guy Davies , Markus Roth

Switchbacks (rotations of the magnetic field) are observed on the Parker Solar Probe. Their evolution, content, and plasma effects are studied in this paper. The solar wind does not receive a net acceleration from switchbacks that it…

Oscillation mode frequencies of stars are typically treated as static for a given stellar model. However, in reality they can be perturbed by time varying sources such as magnetic fields and flows. We calculate the sensitivities of radial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 René Kiefer , Anne-Marie Broomhall

(abridged) The Sun's magnetic activity has steadily declined during its main-sequence life. While the solar photospheric luminosity was about 30% lower 4.6 Gyr ago when the Sun arrived on the main sequence compared to present-day levels,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Guedel

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…

Sun-like stars shed angular momentum due to the presence of magnetised stellar winds. Magnetohydrodynamic models have been successful in exploring the dependence of this "wind-braking torque" on various stellar properties, however the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Adam J. Finley , Allan Sacha Brun

Recently discovered long-term oscillations of the solar background magnetic field associated with double dynamo waves generated in inner and outer layers of the Sun indicate that the solar activity is heading in the next three decades…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-13 V. V. Zharkova , S. J. Shepherd , E. Popova

The magnetic field inside the sunspot umbra, as observed by the Full-disk MagnetoGraph (FMG) onboard the Advanced Space based Solar Observatory (ASO-S), was found to be experiencing a weakening. To address this issue, we employed a method…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-30 Haiqing Xu , Jiangtao Su , Suo Liu , Yuanyong Deng , Xianyong Bai , Jie Chen , Xiaofan Wang , Xiao Yang , Yongliang Song

At subterahertz frequencies -- i.e., millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths -- there is a gap of measurements of the solar radius as well as other parameters of the solar atmosphere. As the observational wavelength changes, the radius…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-07 Fabian Menezes , Caius L. Selhorst , Carlos Guillermo Giménez de Castro , Adriana Valio

The Alfv\'en surface -- where the solar wind exceeds the local Alfv\'en speed as it expands into interplanetary space -- is now routinely probed by NASA's Parker Solar Probe (PSP) in the near-Sun environment. The size of the Alfv\'en…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-29 Adam J. Finley

The high-quality, full-disk helioseismic observations continuously collected by the spectrophotometer GOLF and the three photometers VIRGO/SPMs onboard the SoHO spacecraft for 17 years now (since April 11, 1996, apart from the SoHO…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-18 D. Salabert , R. A. Garcia , A. Jimenez

The photospheric magnetic field outside of active regions and the network has a ubiquitous and dynamic line-of-sight component that strengthens from disk center to limb as expected for a nearly horizontal orientation. This component shows a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. W. Harvey , D. Branston , C. J. Henney , C. U. Keller , the SOLIS Team , the GONG Team

The data from solar neutrino experiments together with standard solar model predictions are used in order to derive the possible profile of the magnetic field inside the Sun, assuming the existence of a sizeable neutrino magnetic moment and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Joao Pulido

Solar p-mode frequencies vary with solar activity. It is important to take this into account when comparing the frequencies observed from epochs that span different regions of the solar cycle. We present details of how to correct observed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. -M. Broomhall , W. J. Chaplin , Y. Elsworth , S. T. Fletcher , R. New

We study the variation of the frequency splitting coefficients describing the solar asphericity in both GONG and MDI data, and use these data to investigate temporal sound-speed variations as a function of both depth and latitude during the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. M. Antia , S. Basu , F. Hill , R. Howe , R. W. Komm , J. Schou

Magnetic switchbacks are localised polarity reversals in the radial component of the heliospheric magnetic field. Observations from Parker Solar Probe (PSP) have shown that they are a prevalent feature of the near-Sun solar wind. However,…

Space Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 G. H. H. Suen , C. J. Owen , D. Verscharen , T. S. Horbury , P. Louarn , R. De Marco

We analyze more than 5000 days of high-quality Sun-as-a-star, radial velocity GOLF and photometric VIRGO/SPM helioseismic observations to extract precise estimates of the visibilities of the low-degree p modes and the m-height ratios of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 David Salabert , Jerome Ballot , Rafael A. Garcia

The origin of the quiet Sun magnetism is under debate. Investigating the solar cycle variation observationally in more detail can give us clues about how to resolve the controversies. We investigate the solar cycle variation of the most…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Maarit J. Korpi-Lagg , Andreas Korpi-Lagg , Nigul Olspert , Hong-Linh Truong