The rotation rate and its evolution derived from improved mode fitting and inversion methodology

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We present inferences of the internal solar rotation rate and its evolution during solar cycle 23. A full solar cycle of MDI observations have been analyzed using an improved fitting methodology and using time series of various lengths, up to a single 4,608 day long epoch (64 times 72 days or 12.6 yr). We used time series of spherical harmonic coefficients computed by the MDI group, including those resulting from using their improved spatial decomposition. This decomposition includes our best estimate of the image plate scale and of the MDI instrumental image distortion. The leakage matrix used in the fitting includes the effect of the distortion of the eigenfunctions by the solar differential rotation, while the undistorted leakage matrix was itself carefully reviewed and independently recomputed. Rotation inversions were carried out for all available mode sets, fitted for that epoch, including the MDI and GONG "pipe-line" values. The improved inversion method uses an iterative methodology based on a least-squares regularization, but with an optimal model grid determined by the actual information in the input set. This method also allows us to use an optimized irregular grid, with a variable number of latitudes at different depths.

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