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Recently observed oscillations in the solar atmosphere have been interpreted and modeled as magnetohydrodynamic wave modes.
This has allowed for the estimation of parameters that are otherwise hard to derive, such as the coronal magnetic-field strength.
This work crucially relies on the initial detection of the oscillations, which is commonly done manually. The volume of Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) data will make manual detection inefficient for detecting all of the oscillating regions. An algorithm is presented
that automates the detection of areas of the solar atmosphere that support spatially extended oscillations. The algorithm
identifies areas in the solar atmosphere whose oscillation content is described by a single, dominant oscillation within a
user-defined frequency range. The method is based on Bayesian spectral analysis of time series and image filtering. A Bayesian
approach sidesteps the need for an a-priori noise estimate to calculate rejection criteria for the observed signal, and it also provides estimates of oscillation frequency,
amplitude, and noise, and the error in all of these quantities, in a self-consistent way. The algorithm also introduces the
notion of quality measures to those regions for which a positive detection is claimed, allowing for simple post-detection discrimination by the user.
The algorithm is demonstrated on two Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) datasets, and comments regarding its suitability for oscillation detection in SDO are made. 相似文献
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We demonstrate that a simple solar dynamo model, in the form of a Parker migratory dynamo with random fluctuations of the
dynamo governing parameters and algebraic saturation of dynamo action, can at least qualitatively reproduce all the basic
features of solar Grand Minima as they are known from direct and indirect data. In particular, the model successfully reproduces
such features as an abrupt transition into a Grand Minimum and the subsequent gradual recovery of solar activity, as well
as mixed-parity butterfly diagrams during the epoch of the Grand Minimum. The model predicts that the cycle survives in some
form during a Grand Minimum, as well as the relative stability of the cycle inside and outside of a Grand Minimum. The long-term
statistics of simulated Grand Minima appears compatible with the phenomenology of the Grand Minima inferred from the cosmogenic
isotope data. We demonstrate that such ability to reproduce the Grand Minima phenomenology is not a general feature of the
dynamo models but requires some specific assumption, such as random fluctuations in dynamo governing parameters. In general,
we conclude that a relatively simple and straightforward model is able to reproduce the Grand Minima phenomenology remarkably
well, in principle providing us with a possibility of studying the physical nature of Grand Minima. 相似文献
3.
We analyze a special kind of temporal fine structure in microwave radio emission for the 25 August 1999 solar flare observed
by the PMO spectrometer over the range of 4.5 – 7.5 GHz. This flare displays continuum emission after a group of reverse-slope
type III bursts around 6 GHz. High-resolution dynamic spectra reveal three evolving emission lines (EELs) following the type
III group. They are characterized by isolated, narrow, and continuous emission strips, which display frequency fluctuations
with time. Their frequency-drift rates are between −2 and 3 GHz s−1. Distinct from the EELs at lower frequencies, three EELs have a very short duration of a few seconds. They show an average
bandwidth of Δf≈330 MHz and a relative bandwidth of Δf/f≈0.057. This is the first time that this kind of fine structure has been observed around 6 GHz. 相似文献
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J. W. Harder G. Thuillier E. C. Richard S. W. Brown K. R. Lykke M. Snow W. E. McClintock J. M. Fontenla T. N. Woods P. Pilewskie 《Solar physics》2010,263(1-2):3-24
The Spectral Irradiance Monitor (SIM) on board the NASA SORCE satellite (Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment) was launched on 25 January 2003 and has been making twice-daily measurements of solar variability in the 220 to 1630 nm range and daily measurements in the 1600 to 2400 nm range. This study presents preflight and postlaunch calibration activities of the SIM instrument and its flight spare components as well as in-flight comparisons with the ATLAS 3 composite spectrum (Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science) in the ultraviolet (UV), visible, and near infrared (NIR) as well as comparisons with the SOLSTICE (Solar Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment) in the UV. In the 258 to 1350 nm range, the SIM agrees with ATLAS 3 with a fractional difference of ?0.021±0.021 (k=1, estimated standard deviation) and with the additional corrections discussed herein the agreement improves to ?0.008±0.021 (k=1). In the ultraviolet (220–307 nm) the agreement between all the instruments in this study is better than 5%, but fractional differences reveal other instrument- and calibration-related differences. In the 1350 to 2400 nm range the agreement between SIM and ATLAS 3 is about 8%, so these SIM data are corrected to agree with ATLAS 3 in this range. 相似文献
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P. A. Sturrock 《Solar physics》2009,254(2):227-239
A search for any particular feature in any single solar neutrino dataset is unlikely to establish variability of the solar
neutrino flux since the count rates are very low. It helps to combine datasets, and in this article we examine data from both
the Homestake and GALLEX experiments. These show evidence of modulation with a frequency of 11.85 year−1, which could be indicative of rotational modulation originating in the solar core. We find that precisely the same frequency
is prominent in power spectrum analyses of the ACRIM irradiance data for both the Homestake and GALLEX time intervals. These
results suggest that the solar core is inhomogeneous and rotates with a sidereal frequency of 12.85 year−1. From Monte Carlo calculations, it is found that the probability that the neutrino data would by chance match the irradiance
data in this way is only 2 parts in 10 000. This rotation rate is significantly lower than that of the inner radiative zone
(13.97 year−1) as recently inferred from analysis of Super-Kamiokande data, suggesting that there may be a second, inner tachocline separating
the core from the radiative zone. This opens up the possibility that there may be an inner dynamo that could produce a strong
internal magnetic field and a second solar cycle. 相似文献
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The summation of two single power-law spectra with a rather big difference of the spectral indices and with comparable intensities
looks like a broken-up spectrum. The spatially integrated hard X-rays contain contributions from different sources, like footpoint
and looptop sources. Within the standard scenario of solar flares, the power-law index difference between the footpoints and
looptop should be two. Taking the M7.6 flare on 24 October 2003 as an example, we showed that the hard X-ray spectrum itself
for footpoints and looptop is a single power-law, but the spatially integrated spectrum presents a broken-up form. It is also
shown that the time-integrated spectrum could present a broken-up form, although the spectrum in further refined intervals
presents a single power-law. It is concluded that the integrated broken-up spectrum observed here is produced either by the
summation of individual sources or by the temporal variation of a single source, not by the acceleration itself. 相似文献
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A. G. Tlatov 《Solar physics》2009,260(2):465-477
This paper considers the indices characterizing the minimum activity epoch, according to the data of large-scale magnetic fields and polar activity. Such indices include: dipole–octopole index, area and average latitude of the field with dominant polarity in each hemisphere, polar activity seen in polar faculae and Ca?ii K line bright points, coronal emission line intensity (5303?Å) and others. We studied the correlation between these indices and the amplitude of the following sunspot cycle, and the relation between the duration of the cycle of large-scale magnetic fields and the duration of the sunspot cycle. The obtained relationships allow us to presume that the polar field is formed from the sources of both preceding and the current activity cycles during the decay phase and at the activity minimum. The balance in these sources would therefore determine the features of the following sunspot cycle. The prediction for the 24th activity cycle using these results leads to W=102±13. 相似文献
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The direct propagation of acoustic waves, driven harmonically at the solar photosphere, into the three-dimensional solar atmosphere
is examined numerically in the framework of ideal magnetohydrodynamics. It is of particular interest to study the leakage
of 5-minute global solar acoustic oscillations into the upper, gravitationally stratified and magnetised atmosphere, where
the modelled solar atmosphere possesses realistic temperature and density stratification. This work aims to complement and
bring further into the 3D domain our previous efforts (by Erdélyi et al., 2007, Astron. Astrophys. 467, 1299) on the leakage of photospheric motions and running magnetic-field-aligned waves excited by these global oscillations.
The constructed model atmosphere, most suitable perhaps for quiet Sun regions, is a VAL IIIC derivative in which a uniform
magnetic field is embedded. The response of the atmosphere to a range of periodic velocity drivers is numerically investigated
in the hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic approximations. Among others the following results are discussed in detail: i) High-frequency waves are shown to propagate from the lower atmosphere across the transition region, experiencing relatively
low reflection, and transmitting most of their energy into the corona; ii) the thin transition region becomes a wave guide for horizontally propagating surface waves for a wide range of driver periods,
and particularly at those periods that support chromospheric standing waves; iii) the magnetic field acts as a waveguide for both high- and low-frequency waves originating from the photosphere and propagating
through the transition region into the solar corona.
Electronic Supplementary Material The online version of this article () contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. 相似文献
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J. G. Luhmann C. O. Lee Yan Li C. N. Arge A. B. Galvin K. Simunac C. T. Russell R. A. Howard G. Petrie 《Solar physics》2009,256(1-2):285-305
The declining phases of solar cycles are known for their high speed solar wind streams that dominate the geomagnetic responses during this period. Outstanding questions about these streams, which can provide the fastest winds of the solar cycle, concern their solar origins, persistence, and predictability. The declining phase of cycle 23 has lasted significantly longer than the corresponding phases of the previous two cycles. Solar magnetograph observations suggest that the solar polar magnetic field is also ～?2?–?3 times weaker. The launch of STEREO in late 2006 provided additional incentive to examine the origins of what is observed at 1 AU in the recent cycle, with the OMNI data base at the NSSDC available as an Earth/L1 baseline for comparisons. Here we focus on the year 2007 when the solar corona exhibited large, long-lived mid-to-low latitude coronal holes and polar hole extensions observed by both SOHO and STEREO imagers. STEREO provides in situ measurements consistent with rigidly corotating solar wind stream structure at up to ～?45° heliolongitude separation by late 2007. This stability justifies the use of magnetogram-based steady 3D solar wind models to map the observed high speed winds back to their coronal sources. We apply the WSA solar wind model currently running at the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center with the expectation that it should perform its best at this quiet time. The model comparisons confirm the origins of the observed high speed streams expected from the solar images, but also reveal uncertainties in the solar wind source mapping associated with this cycle’s weaker solar polar fields. Overall, the results illustrate the importance of having accurate polar fields in synoptic maps used in solar wind forecast models. At the most fundamental level, they demonstrate the control of the solar polar fields over the high speed wind sources, and thus one specific connection between the solar dynamo and the solar wind character. 相似文献
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We consider the problem of automatically (and robustly) isolating and extracting information about waves and oscillations
observed in EUV image sequences of the solar corona with a view to near real-time application to data from the Atmospheric
Imaging Array (AIA) on the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). We find that a simple coherence/travel-time based approach detects and provides a wealth of information on transverse
and longitudinal wave phenomena in the test sequences provided by the Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE). The results of the search are pruned (based on diagnostic errors) to minimize false-detections such that the remainder
provides robust measurements of waves in the solar corona, with the calculated propagation speed allowing automated distinction
between various wave modes. In this paper we discuss the technique, present results on the TRACE test sequences, and describe
how our method can be used to automatically process the enormous flow of data (≈1 Tb day−1) that will be provided by SDO/AIA.
Electronic Supplementary Material The online version of this article () contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. 相似文献
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Donald C. Norquist 《Solar physics》2011,269(1):111-127
Designing a statistical solar flare forecasting technique can benefit greatly from knowledge of the flare frequency of occurrence
with respect to sunspot groups. This study analyzed sunspot groups and Hα and X-ray flares reported for the period 1997 – 2007.
Annual catalogs were constructed, listing the days that numbered sunspot groups were observed (designated sunspot group-days,
SSG-Ds) and for each day a record for each associated Hα flare of importance category one or greater and normal or bright
brightness and for each X-ray flare of intensity C 5 or higher. The catalogs were then analyzed to produce frequency distributions
of SSG-Ds by year, sunspot group class, likelihood of producing at least one flare overall and by sunspot group class, and
frequency of occurrence of numbers of flares per day and flare intensity category. Only 3% of SSG-Ds produced a substantial
Hα flare and 7% had a significant X-ray flare. We found that mature, complex sunspot groups were more likely than simple sunspot
groups to produce a flare, but the latter were more prevalent than the former. More than half of the SSG-Ds with flares had
a maximum intensity flare greater than the lowest category (C-class of intensity five and higher). The fact that certain sunspot
group classes had flaring probabilities significantly higher than the combined probabilities of the intensity categories when
all SSG-Ds were considered suggest that it might be best to first predict the flaring probability. For sunspot groups found
likely to flare, a separate diagnosis of maximum flare intensity category appears feasible. 相似文献
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Nelson L. Reginald O. C. St. Cyr Joseph M. Davila Douglas M. Rabin Madhulika Guhathakurta Donald M. Hassler 《Solar physics》2009,260(2):347-361
We conducted an experiment in conjunction with the total solar eclipse of 29 March 2006 in Libya that measured the coronal intensity through two filters centered at 3850 Å and 4100 Å with bandwidths of ≈?40 Å. The purpose of these measurements was to obtain the intensity ratio through these two filters to determine the electron temperature. The instrument, Imaging Spectrograph of Coronal Electrons (ISCORE), consisted of an eight inch, f/10 Schmidt Cassegrain telescope with a thermoelectrically-cooled CCD camera at the focal plane. Results show electron temperatures of 105 K close to the limb to 3×106 K at 1.3R ⊙. We describe this novel technique, and we compare our results to other relevant measurements. This technique could be easily implemented on a space-based platform using a coronagraph to produce global maps of the electron temperature of the solar corona. 相似文献
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Statistical Comparison of Magnetic Clouds with Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections for Solar Cycle 23 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
We compare the number and characteristics of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) to those of magnetic clouds (MCs)
by using in-situ solar wind plasma and magnetic field observations made at 1 AU during solar cycle 23. We found that ≈ 28% of ICMEs appear
to contain MCs, since 103 magnetic clouds (MCs) occurred during 1995 – 2006, and 307 ICMEs occurred during 1996 – 2006. For
the period between 1996 and 2006, 85 MCs are identified as part of ICMEs, and six MCs are not associated with ICMEs, which
conflicts with the idea that MCs are usually a subset of ICMEs. It was also found that solar wind conditions inside MCs and
ICMEs are usually similar, but the linear correlation between geomagnetic storm intensity (Dst
min ) and relevant solar wind parameters is better for MCs than for ICMEs. The differences between average event duration (Δt) and average proton plasma β (〈β〉) are two of the major differences between MCs and ICMEs: i) the average duration of ICMEs (29.6 h) is 44% longer than for MCs (20.6 hours), and ii) the average of 〈β〉 is 0.01 for MCs and 0.24 for ICMEs. The difference between the definition of a MC and that for an ICME is one of the major
reasons for these average characteristics being different (i.e., listed above as items i) and ii)), and it is the reason for the frequency of their occurrences being different. 相似文献
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In a density-stratified turbulent medium, the cross helicity 〈u′⋅B′〉 is considered as a result of the interaction of the velocity fluctuations and a large-scale magnetic field. By means of
a quasilinear theory and by numerical simulations, we find the cross helicity and the mean vertical magnetic field to be anti-correlated.
In the high-conductivity limit the ratio of the helicity and the mean magnetic field equals the ratio of the magnetic eddy
diffusivity and the (known) density scale height. The result can be used to predict that the cross helicity at the solar surface
will exceed the value of 1 gauss km s−1. Its sign is anti-correlated to that of the radial mean magnetic field. Alternatively, we can use our result to determine
the value of the turbulent magnetic diffusivity from observations of the cross helicity. 相似文献
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In this work, the evolution of the relationship between Solar Cycle Length of solar cycle n (SCL
n
) and Solar Cycle Amplitude of the solar cycle n+1 (SCA
n+1) is studied by using the R
Z and R
G sunspot numbers. We conclude that this relationship is only strongly significant in a statistical sense during the first
half of the historical record of R
Z sunspot number whereas it is considerably less significant for the R
G sunspot number. In this sense we assert that these simple lagged relationships should be avoided as a valid method to predict
the following solar activity amplitude. 相似文献
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Based on Hinode SOT/NFI observations with greatly improved spatial and temporal resolution and polarization sensitivity, the lifestory of
the intranetwork (IN) magnetic elements are explored in a solar quiet region. A total of 2282 IN elements are followed from
their appearance to disappearance and their fluxes measured. By tracing individual IN elements their lifetimes are obtained,
which fall in the range from 1 to 20 min. The average lifetime is 2.9±2.0 min. The observed lifetime distribution is well
represented by an exponential function. Therefore, the e-fold characteristic lifetime is determined by a least-square fitting
to the observations, which is 2.1±0.3 min. The lifetime of IN elements is correlated closely with their flux. The evolution
of IN elements is described according to the forms of their birth and disappearance. Based on the lifetime and flux obtained
from the new observations, it is estimated that the IN elements have the capacity of heating the corona with a power of 2.1×1028 erg s−1 for the whole Sun. 相似文献
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We investigate the M1.8 solar flare of 20 October 2002. The flare was accompanied by quasi-periodic pulsations (QPP) of both thermal and nonthermal hard X-ray emissions (HXR) observed by RHESSI in the 3?–?50 keV energy range. Analysis of the HXR time profiles in different energy channels made with the Lomb periodogram has indicated two statistically significant time periods of about 16 and 36 s. The 36 s QPP were observed only in the nonthermal HXR emission in the impulsive phase of the flare. The 16 s QPP were found in thermal and nonthermal HXR emission both in the impulsive and in the decay phases of the flare. Imaging analysis of the flare region, the determined time periods of the QPP, and the estimated physical parameters of the flare loops allowed us to interpret the observed QPP in terms of MHD oscillations excited in two spatially separated, but interacting systems of flaring loops. 相似文献
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E. K. J. Kilpua J. G. Luhmann J. Gosling Y. Li H. Elliott C. T. Russell L. Jian A. B. Galvin D. Larson P. Schroeder K. Simunac G. Petrie 《Solar physics》2009,256(1-2):327-344
It has been realized for some time that the slow solar wind with its embedded heliospheric current sheet often exhibits complex features suggesting at least partially transient origin. In this paper we investigate the structure of the slow solar wind using the observations by the Wind and STEREO spacecraft during two Carrington rotations (2054 and 2055). These occur at the time of minimum solar activity when the interplanetary medium is dominated by recurrent high-speed streams and large-scale interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) are rare. However, the signatures of transients with small scale-sizes and/or low magnetic field strength (comparable with the typical solar wind value, ～?5 nT) are frequently found in the slow solar wind at these times. These events do not exhibit significant speed gradients across the structure, but instead appear to move with the surrounding flow. Source mapping using models based on GONG magnetograms suggests that these transients come from the vicinity of coronal source surface sector boundaries. In situ they are correspondingly observed in the vicinity of high density structures where the dominant electron heat flux reverses its flow polarity. These weak transients might be indications of dynamical changes at the coronal hole boundaries or at the edges of the helmet streamer belt previously reported in coronagraph observations. Our analysis supports the idea that even at solar minimum, a considerable fraction of the slow solar wind is transient in nature. 相似文献
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Markus J. Aschwanden 《Solar physics》2010,262(2):235-275
This review presents a comprehensive and systematic overview of image-processing techniques that are used in automated feature-detection algorithms applied to solar data: i) image pre-processing procedures, ii) automated detection of spatial features, iii) automated detection and tracking of temporal features (events), and iv) post-processing tasks, such as visualization of solar imagery, cataloguing, statistics, theoretical modeling, prediction, and forecasting. For each aspect the most recent developments and science results are highlighted. We conclude with an outlook on future trends. 相似文献