Physics
Scientific paper
Sep 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008espm...122.119z&link_type=abstract
"12th European Solar Physics Meeting, Freiburg, Germany, held September, 8-12, 2008. Online at http://espm.kis.uni-freiburg.de/,
Physics
Scientific paper
The meridional circulation is a weak flow with amplitude in the order of 10 m/s on the solar surface. As this flow could be responsible for the transport of magnetic flux during the solar cycle it has become a crucial ingredient in some dynamo models. However, only less is known about the overall structure of the meridional circulation. Helioseismology is able to provide information on the structure of this flow in the solar interior. One widely used helioseismic technique for measuring frequency shifts due to horizontal flows in the subsurface layers of the sun is the ring diagram analyis (Corbard et al. 2003). It is based on the analysis of frequency shifts in the solar oscillation power spectrum as a function of the orientation of the wave vector. This then allows drawing conclusions on the strength of meridional flow, too. Ring diagram analysis is currently limited to the analysis of the wave field in only a small region on the solar surface. Consequently, information on the solar interior can only be inferred down to a depth of about 16 Mm. Another helioseismology method that promises to estimate the meridional flow strength down to greater depths is the Fourier-Hankel analysis (Krieger et al. 2007). This technique is based on a decomposition of the wave field in poleward and equatorward propagating waves. A possible frequency shift between them is then due to the meridional flow. We have been motivated for carrying out a comparative study between the two techniques to measure the meridional flow. We investigate the degree of coherence between the two methods by analyzing the same data sets recorded by the SOHO-MDI and GONG instruments.
Roth Marcel
Zaatri Amel
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