Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Mar 2000
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000apj...531.1094k&link_type=abstract
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 531, Issue 2, pp. 1094-1108.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Sun: Activity, Sun: Evolution, Sun: Oscillations
Scientific paper
We search for a solar-cycle variation in mode widths and amplitudes derived from 3 month GONG time series. The variation of mode width and amplitude observed in GONG data are the combined effects of fill factor, temporal variation, and measurement uncertainties. The largest variation is caused by the fill factor resulting in modes with increased width and reduced amplitude when fill is lower. We assume that the solar-cycle variation is the only other systematic variation beside the temporal window function effect. We correct all currently available data sets for the fill factor and simultaneously derive the solar-cycle variation. We find an increase of about 3% on average in mode width from the previous minimum to October 1998 and a decrease of about 7% and 6% in mode amplitude and mode area (widthxamplitude). We find no l dependence of the solar-cycle changes. As a function of frequency, these changes show a maximum between 2.7 and 3.3 mHz with about 47% higher than average values for mode width and about 29% and 36% higher ones for mode amplitude and area. We estimate the significance of these rather small changes by a prewhitening method and find that the results are significant at or above the 99.9% level, with mode area showing the highest level of significance and mode width the lowest. The variation in background amplitude is most likely not significant and is consistent with a zero change.
Hill F. F.
Howe Rachel
Komm Rudolf W.
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