Solar Cycle Onset Seen in SOHO Michelson Doppler Imager Seismic Data

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Dec 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998apj...509..456d&link_type=abstract

The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 509, Issue 1, pp. 456-460.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

37

Sun: Activity, Sun: Interior, Sun: Oscillations

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We have analyzed time changes in centroid frequencies and multiplet frequency splittings of solar oscillations determined with the Michelson Doppler Imager instrument (MDI) on SOHO. The data were divided into five consecutive 72 day sets covering the period from 1996 May 1 through 1997 April 25. We have detected a significant trend in the a_4 and a_6 frequency splitting coefficients, which reflects a decrease in the P_4 distortion (described by the fourth-degree Legendre polynomial of colatitude) and an increase in the P_6 distortion. The rise of the latter distortion seems to coincide precisely with the rise in the number of new cycle sunspots. Such sharp and detailed clues to activity onset are new and do not exist in splitting data from the rising phase of the last cycle. The relative differences among the solar radii inferred from the f-mode frequencies from the five sets (at most 6 x 10^-6 or 4 km) are formally significant, reaching a minimum during the observed period.

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