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The dynamics of the solar radiative interior are still poorly constrained by comparison to the convective zone. This disparity is even more marked when we attempt to derive meaningful temporal variations. Many data sets contain a small…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Antonio Eff-Darwich , Sylain G. Korzennik

The magnetic field of a sunspot guides magnetohydrodynamic waves toward higher atmospheric layers. In the upper photosphere and lower chromosphere, wave modes with periods longer than the acoustic cut-off period become evanescent. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 J. Löhner-Böttcher , N. Bello González , W. Schmidt

Helioseismology has revealed that the angular velocity of the Sun increases with depth in the outermost 35 Mm of the Sun. Recently, we have shown that the logarithmic radial gradient ($\rm d\ln\Omega/\rm d\ln r $) in the upper 10~Mm is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-02 Atefeh Barekat , Jesper Schou , Laurent Gizon

We present observational signatures of solar cycle 25 onset. Those signatures are visibly following a migratory path from high to low latitudes. They had starting points that are asymmetrically offset in each hemisphere at times that are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-16 Scott W. McIntosh , Robert J. Leamon

The characteristic of the solar acoustic spectrum is such that mode lifetimes get shorter and spatial leaks get closer in frequency as the degree of a mode increases for a given order. A direct consequence of this property is that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. G. Korzennik , M. C. Rabello-Soares , J. Schou

We analyzed the sunspot-group daily data that were reported by Greenwich Photoheliogrphic Results (GPR) during the period 1874-1976 and Debrecen Photoheliographic Data (DPD) during the period 1977-2017. We determined the equatorial rotation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-04 J. Javaraiah

Context. The solar dynamo consists of a process that converts poloidal field to toroidal field followed by a process which creates new poloidal field from the toroidal field. Aims. Our aim is to observe the poloidal and toroidal fields…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 R. H. Cameron , T. L Duvall , M. Schüssler , H. Schunker

We processed magnetograms that were obtained with the Michaelson Doppler Imager onboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO/MDI). The results confirm the basic properties of long-period oscillations of sunspots that have previously…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-15 V. I. Efremov , L. D. Parfinenko , A. A. Solovev , E. A. Kirichek

The toroidal magnetic field is assumed to be generated in the tachocline in most Babcock-Leighton (BL)-type solar dynamo models, in which the poloidal field is produced by the emergence and subsequent dispersal of sunspot groups. However,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-11 Zebin Zhang , Jie Jiang

Sunspot groups and bipolar magnetic regions (BMRs) serve as an observational diagnostic of the solar cycle. We use Debrecen Photohelographic Data (DPD) from 1974-2014 that determined sunspot tilt angles from daily white light observations,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Bruce H. McClintock , Aimee A. Norton , Jing Li

Polar fields at the minimum of a sunspot cycle -- which are a manifestation of the radial component of the Sun's poloidal field -- are deemed to be the best indicator of the strength of the toroidal component, and hence the amplitude of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-15 Srinjana Routh , Shaonwita Pal , Dibyendu Nandy , Subhamoy Chatterjee , Dipankar Banerjee , Mohd. Saleem Khan

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

The ideal magnetohydrodynamic torus instability can drive the eruption of coronal mass ejections. The critical threshold of magnetic field strength decay for the onset of the torus instability occurs at different heights in different solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-12 Alexander W. James , Lucie M. Green , Graham Barnes , Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi , David R. Williams

Context: The Sun's polar fields and open flux around the time of activity minima have been considered to be strongly correlated with the strength of the subsequent maximum of solar activity. Aims: We aim to investigate the behavior of a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 J. Jiang , R. H. Cameron , D. Schmitt , E. Isik

From a set of stellar spectropolarimetric observations, we report the detection of surface magnetic fields in a sample of four solar-type stars, namely HD 73350, HD 76151, HD 146233 (18 Sco) and HD 190771. Assuming that the observed…

We study the temporal evolution of solar inertial modes over the solar cycle using observations from GONG and SDO/HMI. We focus on the high-latitude mode with azimuthal wavenumber $m=1$ and the equatorial Rossby modes with $3 \le m \le 16$.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 B Lekshmi , Zhi-Chao Liang , Laurent Gizon , Jordan Philidet , Kiran Jain

We obtain the latitude-time distribution of the averaged tilt angle of solar bipoles. For large bipoles, which are mainly bipolar sunspot groups, the spatially averaged tilt angle is positive in the Northern solar hemisphere and negative in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 A. Tlatov , E. Illarionov , D. Sokoloff , V. Pipin

This research work is based on the study of the longitudinal distribution of the most active sunspot zones on the photosphere. Sunspot data has been analyzed for 12 solar cycles (cycles 12-23) separately for northern and southern…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-17 Abdul Malik , Martin Bohm

Context: The study of variations in total solar irradiance (TSI) is important for understanding how the Sun affects the Earth's climate. Aims: Full-disk continuum images and magnetograms are now available for three full solar cycles. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 W. T. Ball , Y. C. Unruh , N. A. Krivova , S. Solanki , T. Wenzler , D. J. Mortlock , A. H. Jaffe

Recently, we have developed a method useful for mapping large-scale horizontal velocity fields in the solar photosphere. The method was developed, tuned and calibrated using the synthetic data. Now, we applied the method to the series of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michal Svanda , Mirek Klvana , Michal Sobotka , Vaclav Bumba