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Global and local helioseismic studies of solar convection zone dynamics using soi-mdi on soho
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Toomre, Juri Christensen-Dalsgaard, Joergen Gough Sr., Douglas Haber, Deborah Hindman, Bradley Thompson, Michael |
| Copyright Year | 2003 |
| Description | Our joint collaborative analyses of global mode data to characterize the solar differential rotation (e.g. Thompson et al. 1996, Schou et al. 1998), and most recently to detect and analyze temporal variations in angular velocity Omega profiles both within the convection zone and in the deeper radiative interior (e.g. Howe et al 2000a,b; Toomre et al. 2000), have led to a series of fascinating discoveries. These should be pursued further as the solar cycle continues. The physical deductions being made from these studies have been greatly strengthened by utilizing both SOI-MDI and GONG data in order to have two independent observational realizations of Doppler images spanning a five-year interval, using two separate procedures to determine global mode splittings, and then analyzing those splitting data sets using both RLS and SOLA inversion procedures. There are considerable subtleties in the effects of instrumental response functions and calibrations, sensitivity of peak finding algorithms and their mode leakage estimates, and stochastic variations in mode amplitudes that can all contribute to apparent changes in the Omega profiles being inferred from sequences of helioseismic data. We have come to understand the implications of many of these calibration and analysis steps, greatly aided by frequent multi-week collaborative working sessions in our Helioseismic Analysis Facility (HAF) at JILA involving many members of the SO1 dynamics and inversion team, including most of our Co-Is during the summer months when we hold intensive working sessions. Considerable further focused attention is required in a collaborative setting on such global mode issues as we continue studying the changing sun. |
| File Size | 755815 |
| Page Count | 7 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20030018922 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t7bs3r77h |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2003-02-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Solar Physics Helioseismology Temporal Distribution Algorithms Calibrating Stochastic Processes Angular Velocity Velocity Distribution Solar Cycles Solar Oscillations Convection Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
