Born scattering of long-period body waves

Details Born scattering of long-period body waves Born scattering of long-period body waves

Sep 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000geoji.142..876d&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Journal International, Volume 142, Issue 3, pp. 876-888.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Born Approximation, D'', Long-Period Body Waves, Pkikp, Plumes, Scattering

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The Born approximation is applied to the modelling of the propagation of deeply turning long-period body waves through heterogeneities in the lowermost mantle. We use an exact Green's function for a spherically symmetric earth model that also satisfies the appropriate boundary conditions at internal boundaries and the surface of the earth. The scattered displacement field is obtained by a numerical quadrature of the product of the Green's function, the exciting wavefield and structural perturbations. We study three examples: scattering of long-period P waves from a plume rising from the core-mantle boundary (CMB), generation of long-period precursors to PKIKP by strong, localized scatterers at the CMB, and propagation of core-diffracted P waves through large-scale heterogeneities in D''. The main results are as follows: (1) the signals scattered from a realistic plume are small with relative amplitudes of less than 2 per cent at a period of 20s, rendering plume detection a fairly difficult task; (2) strong heterogeneities at the CMB of appropriate size may produce observable long-period precursors to PKIKP in spite of the presence of a diffraction from the PKP-B caustic; (3) core-diffracted P waves (Pdiff) are sensitive to structure in D'' far off the geometrical ray path and also far beyond the entry and exit points of the ray into and out of D'' sensitivity kernels exhibit ring-shaped patterns of alternating sign reminiscent of Fresnel zones; (4) Pdiff also shows a non-negligible sensitivity to shear wave velocity in D'' (5) down to periods of 40s, the Born approximation is sufficiently accurate to allow waveform modelling of Pdiff through large-scale heterogeneities in D'' of up to 5 per cent.

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