Helioseismic probing of the subsurface structure of sunspots

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Aug 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011iaus..273..384c&link_type=abstract

The Physics of Sun and Star Spots, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 273, p. 384-388

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Sun: Helioseismology, Sun: Magnetic Fields, Sunspots

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We discuss recent progress in the helioseismic probing of the subsurface structure of solar magnetic regions. To simulate the interaction of helioseismic waves with magnetic fields and thermal perturbations we use a simple model that is translation invariant in the horizontal directions, has a realistic stratification in the vertical direction, and has physically consistent boundary conditions for the waves at the upper and lower boundaries of the computational domain. Using this model we generate synthetic helioseismic data and subsequently measure time-distance travel times. We evaluate a model for the wave-speed perturbation below sunspots that replaces the sound speed in a non-magnetic model by the fast-mode speed from a magnetic model; our results indicate that this approach is unlikely to be useful in modeling wave-speed perturbations in sunspots. We develop and test an inversion algorithm for inferring the sound-speed perturbation in magnetic regions. We show that this algorithm retrieves the correct sound-speed perturbation only when the sensitivity kernels employed account for the effects of the magnetic field on the waves and the subsurface structure.

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