Physics
Scientific paper
Jan 1992
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992soph..137...15h&link_type=abstract
Solar Physics (ISSN 0038-0938), vol. 137, Jan. 1992, p. 15-32.
Physics
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Helioseismology, Magnetohydrodynamic Flow, Photosphere, Spherical Harmonics, Steady Flow, Annual Variations, Harmonic Functions, Solar Atmosphere, Solar Granulation, Solar Limb, Solar Rotation
Scientific paper
The use of the spherical harmonic functions to analyze the nearly steady flows in the solar photosphere is extended to situations in which B(0) the latitude at disk center, is nonzero and spurious velocities are present. The procedures for extracting the rotation profile and meridional circulation are altered to account for the seasonal tilt of the sun's rotation axis toward and away from the observer. A more robust and accurate method for separating the limb shift and meridional circulation signals is described. The analysis procedures include the ability to mask out areas containing spurious velocities (velocity-like signals that do not represent true flow velocities in the photosphere). The procedures are shown to work well in extracting the various flow components from realistic artificial data with a broad, continuous spectrum for the supergranulation. The presence of this supergranulation signal introduces errors of a few m/s in the measurements of the rotation profile, meridional circulation, and limb shift from a single Doppler image.
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