Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-02-15
Astrophys.J.696:653-667,2009
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
17 pages, 17 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ on 27 January 2009
Scientific paper
10.1088/0004-637X/696/1/653
We present an adaptation of the rotation-corrected, m-averaged spectrum technique designed to observe low signal-to-noise-ratio, low-frequency solar p modes. The frequency shift of each of the 2l+1 m spectra of a given (n,l) multiplet is chosen that maximizes the likelihood of the m-averaged spectrum. A high signal-to-noise ratio can result from combining individual low signal-to-noise-ratio, individual-m spectra, none of which would yield a strong enough peak to measure. We apply the technique to GONG and MDI data and show that it allows us to measure modes with lower frequencies than those obtained with classic peak-fitting analysis of the individual-m spectra. We measure their central frequencies, splittings, asymmetries, lifetimes, and amplitudes. The low-frequency, low- and intermediate-angular degrees rendered accessible by this new method correspond to modes that are sensitive to the deep solar interior down to the core and to the radiative interior. Moreover, the low-frequency modes have deeper upper turning points, and are thus less sensitive to the turbulence and magnetic fields of the outer layers, as well as uncertainties in the nature of the external boundary condition. As a result of their longer lifetimes (narrower linewidths) at the same signal-to-noise ratio the determination of the frequencies of lower-frequency modes is more accurate, and the resulting inversions should be more precise.
Appourchaux Thierry
Hill F. F.
Leibacher John
Salabert David
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