Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Mar 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001mnras.322...22c&link_type=abstract
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 322, Issue 1, pp. 22-30.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Sun: Activity, Sun: Oscillations
Scientific paper
We have studied variations in the frequencies of low-l solar p modes through the analysis of nine years of helioseismic data collected by the Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network (BiSON)†. This is the first time that such a long data set has been explored with the extra accuracy afforded by fitting the modes to asymmetric profiles. The epoch covered (1991-99) spans the declining activity phase of solar cycle 22, and a substantial portion of the initial activity increase during cycle 23. The complete time series has been split into contiguous segments of length 27, 54, 108 and 216d in order to facilitate the study of changes occurring on different time-scales. Further, we have characterized the observed shifts as a function of six well-known indicators of solar activity. These indices reflect changes taking place in the photosphere, chromosphere and corona, but only over the visible hemisphere of the Sun. Since the low-l eigenfrequencies respond to global variations in activity, we discuss the implications of this mismatch for the analyses performed. We demonstrate that, as expected, the low-l modes adjust to changes in the activity measures on time-scales as short as a few months. Our analysis indicates that all six proxies correlate equally well (at the level of precision of the data) with the measured shifts. Further, the sensitivity of the shifts to changes in five of the activity indices is the same, to within ~15per cent (1σ) or so, on the falling and rising phases considered. There is, however, a slight suggestion that the sensitivity to changes in the disc-averaged line-of-sight magnetic field component (as determined from daily Kitt Peak magnetograms) may be higher on the rising phase of the cycle.
Chaplin William J.
Elsworth Yvonne
Isaak George R.
Marchenkov Konstantin I.
Miller Brek A.
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