Investigation of Long-Period Oscillations of Sunspots with Ground-Based (Pulkovo) and SOHO/MDI Data

Details Investigation of Long-Period Oscillations of Sunspots with Ground-Based (Pulkovo) and SOHO/MDI Data Investigation of Long-Period Oscillations of Sunspots with Ground-Based (Pulkovo) and SOHO/MDI Data

Dec 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010soph..267..279e&link_type=abstract

Solar Physics, Volume 267, Issue 2, pp.279-293

Physics

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Sun, Sunspots, Helioseismology

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We applied special data-processing algorithms to the study of long-period oscillations of the magnetic-field strength and the line-of-sight velocity in sunspots. The oscillations were investigated with two independent groups of data. First, we used an eight-hour-long series of solar spectrograms, obtained with the solar telescope at the Pulkovo Observatory. We simultaneously measured Doppler shifts of six spectral lines, formed at different heights in the atmosphere. Second, we had a long time series of full-disk magnetograms (10 - 34 hour) from SOHO/MDI for the line-of-sight magnetic-field component. Both ground- and space-based observations revealed long-period modes of oscillations (40 - 45, 60 - 80, and 160 - 180 minutes) in the power spectrum of the sunspots and surrounding magnetic structures. With the SOHO/MDI data, one can study the longer periodicities. We obtained two new significant periods (> 3 σ) in the power spectra of sunspots: around 250 and 480 minutes. The power of the oscillations in the lower frequencies is always higher than in the higher ones. The amplitude of the long-period magnetic-field modes shows magnitudes of about 200 - 250 G. The amplitude of the line-of-sight velocity periodicities is about 60 - 110 m s-1. The absence of low-frequency oscillations in the telluric line proves their solar nature. Moreover, the absence of low-frequency oscillations of the line-of-sight velocity in the quiet photosphere (free of magnetic elements) proves their direct connection to magnetic structures. Long-period modes of oscillation observed in magnetic elements surrounding the sunspot are spread over the meso-granulation scales (10″ - 12″), while the sunspot itself oscillates as a whole. The amplitude of the long-period mode of the line-of-sight velocity in a sunspot decreases rapidly with height: these oscillations are clearly visible in the spectral lines originating at heights of approximately 200 km and fade away in lines originating at 500 km. We found a new interesting property: the low-frequency oscillations of a sunspot are strongly reduced when there is a steady temporal trend (strengthening or weakening) of the sunspot's magnetic field. Another important result is that the frequency of long-period oscillations evidently depends on the sunspot's magnetic-field strength.

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