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Figure 1:
-averaged power spectra of solar oscillations obtained from series of tracked
Doppler images of size (near disk center) observed by MDI (left) and TON (right), versus
spherical harmonic degree and temporal frequency. The ridges are labelled by the value of the
radial order . From González Hernández et al. (1998). |
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Figure 2:
Power spectrum of solar oscillations observed in brightness from the geographic south pole
in 1994 ( line, bandpass). Notice that ridges of power can be seen well beyond the
acoustic cutoff frequency. Courtesy of T.L. Duvall. |
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Figure 3:
Real (red) and imaginary (blue) parts of the horizontal component of normal-mode and
numerical Green’s functions ( ) for , (just above the
resonance), , and a vertical momentum source. The Green’s function has been
scaled by the square root of the background density. The horizontal axis is acoustic depth in minutes.
The vertical scale is arbitrary. The source depth is shown by the solid blue vertical line. The
photosphere is shown by the vertical blue dashed line. The solid curves show the numerical results.
The real part of the numerical result has a discontinuity at the source depth while the imaginary part
is continuous there. The dashed curves show the normal-mode summation approximation. Notice
that the normal-mode approximation is continuous at the source depth. This is because we have used
only a finite number of modes (radial orders not greater than ). From Birch et al. (2004). |
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Figure 4:
Comparison of a model filtered power spectrum with the filtered power spectrum of MDI
data. The filter is such that most of the power is in the and ridges. The model power
spectrum is computed for a model with spatially uncorrelated quadrupole sources located at
below the photosphere. The model includes the effects of the spatial and temporal window functions
and the broadening of the spectrum by the remapping. Without these corrections the model power
spectrum would have linewidths much smaller than those of the data. Upper left panel: Observed
filtered power spectrum. Upper right panel: Model filtered power spectrum. The solid lines in the
upper panels show the location of the f-mode ridge, for reference. Lower left panel: Average over
wavenumbers of the observed (dashed line) and model (solid line) filtered power spectra. Lower right
panel: Average over frequencies of the observed (dashed line) and model (solid line) filtered power
spectra. From Birch et al. (2004). |
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Figure 5:
A numerical experiment of wave scattering by a spherical region of perturbed sound speed.
The left panel shows the geometry and a single frame from a numerical simulation. The circular
contours are contours of the sound-speed perturbation, which is a raised cosine with radius
and with a maximum fractional sound speed perturbation of . The curved heavy lines show
example ray paths leaving the source, at , , and going through the receiver
location, at , . The middle and right-hand panels show the numerical travel
times perturbations (solid lines), the Born approximation travel time perturbations (dashed lines),
and the first-order ray approximation for the perturbed travel times (dotted lines), for positive and
negative five percent changes in the sound speed ( , middle panel) and positive and
negative ten percent changes in the sound speed ( , right panel). In both cases, the different
travel time perturbations are shown as functions of the sphere radius . Also in both cases,
the travel times for negative sound-speed perturbations have and for positive sound-speed
perturbations have . From Birch et al. (2001). |
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Figure 6:
Geometry for a numerical test of the Born approximation. The wave source is located
at the origin of the coordinate system. The open circles show the locations where the wavefield is
observed. There is a background flow in the direction confined between the solid horizontal
lines. The flow strength varies as a raised cosine, centered between the two horizontal lines, on the
coordinate and has a maximum of value of of the background sound speed, which is spatially
uniform and equal to . The lines emanating from the source show example ray traces.
The flow reflects waves that hit it at . The travel times are shown in Figure 7. From Birch
and Felder (2004). |
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Figure 7:
Travel times in the Born approximation (heavy line), ray approximation (thin line),
and computed numerically (open circles) for the geometry and jet-flow configuration described in
Figure 6. The top panel is for waves that cross the jet-like flow and the bottom panel is for the
waves that do not cross the jet. The horizontal axis is the distance in the upstream or downstream
direction traveled by the wave before it is observed, i.e., is for waves traveling perpendicular
to the direction of the flow. For the waves that cross almost perpendicularly to the flow direction
the Born and ray approximations are good. For waves that hit the jet at a glancing angle, a strong
reflected wave is seen and the Born approximation fails. From Birch and Felder (2004). |
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Figure 8:
The -averaged net power (incoming plus outgoing) as a function of frequency for two
representative values of degree . These power spectra were obtained from the analysis of 1988
quiet-Sun south pole data. The p-mode ridges are labeled by the value of the radial order . The
dashed lines show the background power . From Braun (1995). |
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Figure 9:
The total -summed power as a function of frequency across the p-mode ridge
corresponding to and (top panel) and the raw phase measurements across the
same range in frequency (bottom panel). The solid lines indicate the predicted value of the spurious
phase shifts. 1988 south pole quiet-Sun data. From Braun (1995). |
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Figure 10:
Cuts at constant frequency through the three-dimensional power spectrum. Panels A, B,
and C correspond to cuts at frequencies , , and , respectively. The outermost ring
corresponds to the f mode, and the inner rings to , , , and so forth. Displacements of the
rings are caused by horizontal flows, while alterations of ring diameters are produced by sound speed
perturbations. The spectrum was computed from an image sequence 1664 minutes long beginning on
1999 May 25 for a region near disk center. From Hindman et al. (2004). |
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Figure 11:
Logarithm of the power as a function of and at (left
panel) and an unwrapped cylinder at wavenumber corresponding to angular degree
as a function of and ( ; right panel). From Schou and
Bogart (1998). |
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Figure 12:
Representative resolution kernels for (A) RLS and (B) OLA inversions of ring-analysis
frequency splittings, plotted as a function of depth. Numbers indicate target depths. The negative
sidelobes near the surface, so prevalent in RLS inversion kernels, are almost absent in the OLA
kernels. From Haber et al. (2004). |
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Figure 13:
Theoretical cross-covariance function for p modes, , as a function of time
lag and arc distance, also called the time-distance diagram. In this calculation the solar model is
spherically symmetric. Hence only depends on the distance between and and is
symmetric with respect to the time lag . Courtesy of A.G. Kosovichev. |
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Figure 14:
Cross-covariance function computed for the Fourier filters given in Table 1. The data
are averaged over all pairs of points that correspond to a given distance. Each panel is labelled (on
top) by the index of the phase-speed filter listed in the table. The main branch corresponds to
the first bounce of p-mode wavepackets. The correlation at shorter times is an artifact, while the
correlation at later times corresponds to the second-bounce branch. Courtesy of S. Couvidat. |
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Figure 15:
Surface gravity wave cross-covariances. Left panel: Observed cross-covariance
averaged over all possible pairs of points ( , ), as a function of distance
and time lag . Red refers to positive values and blue to negative values. The
observations are 8-hr time series from the MDI high-resolution field of view. The Fourier filter is
chosen to isolate surface gravity waves. Right panel: Theoretical cross-covariance from a solar model.
From Gizon and Birch (2002). |
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Figure 16:
Quadrant geometry used in the time-distance averaging procedure to measure flows in
the east-west direction. Here the spatial sampling is (MDI full-disk data). The black
regions show the pixels that belong to the east and west quadrants at distance from a central
location , denoted by and in the text. The average cross-covariance is computed
according to Equation (57). The gray regions include the pixels used for three separate distances.
Combined, these four distances are those displayed in Figure 17. From Hindman et al. (2004). |
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Figure 17:
Left panel: Measured f-mode cross-covariance functions at a particular
pixel position and for distances in the range (full-disk MDI data,
). Middle panel: Cross-covariance functions are shifted along a line of constant phase, such
that the reference shift is the same for all . Right panel: Average of the (shifted) cross-covariances
over . This type of averaging is also done for p-mode data. From Hindman et al. (2004). |
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Figure 18:
Maps of measured travel times (quadrant/annulus geometry). The eight pictures
vertically are for eight different annulus sizes. The sizes of the annuli are shown, smallest at the top
and largest at the bottom. The horizontal size of each image is . Left column: Travel times
for outward-going waves minus inward-going waves with the white displayed as a negative signal.
The rms signal in the top image is . Second-to-left column: Westward travel times minus
eastward travel times. Third-to-left column: Northward travel times minus southward travel times.
Fourth-to-left column: Average of inward and outward travel times with a negative signal displayed
as white. The rms signal in the top image is . A correlation with the location of the
magnetic features can be seen. Top figure in right column: Magnetic field as seen by MDI. Bottom
figure in right column: Average MDI Dopplergram observed for the interval. From Duvall Jr
et al. (1997). |
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Figure 19:
Single-source Born approximation travel time kernel. The left panel is a cut in the plane
of the ray path; the right panel is a cut in the plane that is perpendicular to the ray path at the lower
turning point. The color scale shows the sensitivity of the travel time to a local change in the sound
speed. The solid black line, left panel, shows the ray path. From Birch and Kosovichev (2000). |
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Figure 20:
Comparison of the distributed stochastic source model (left panel) and the single-source
model (right panel) for f-mode travel time kernels for wave damping perturbations. The observation
locations are shown as black plus signs. The kernels are for the one-way travel times (from left to
right). From Gizon and Birch (2002). |
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Figure 21:
Slices through travel time kernels for the effect of sound-speed perturbations on mean
travel times. Top panel: no filters other a filter to remove the f mode; middle panel: also includes
an approximate model of the MDI full-disk MTF; bottom panel: also includes a narrow phase speed
filter in addition to the MTF. In all of the panels the kernels are shown in the plane of the ray path,
which is shown by the black line. From Birch et al. (2004). |
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Figure 22:
Results of f-mode time-distance analysis and comparison with the direct Doppler
measurements. (a) Direct Doppler measurements averaged over the observation duration ( ).
(b) Line-of-sight projection of the horizontal vector flow field, inferred using f-mode time-distance.
(c) Horizontal divergence of horizontal flows measured by f-mode time-distance analysis
beneath the photosphere. (d) Scatter plot of the line-of-sight velocity from time-distance analysis
against the observed Doppler velocity. The correlation coefficient is 0.7. From Gizon et al. (2000). |
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Figure 23:
Tests of an RLS inversion for supergranulation-like flows. Top panel: flow field in the
model; middle panel: the inversion result after five iterations of LSQR; bottom panel: inversion result
after one hundred inversions of LSQR. In practice one hundred iterations would greatly magnify any
noise in the data. From Zhao and Kosovichev (2003a). |
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Figure 24:
The sound speed in the model (top panel) and the result of the inversion of the artificial
data (lower panel). The gray scale is such that light colors are reduced sound-speed and dark colors are
increased sound speed, in both cases relative to the stratified background. From Jensen et al. (2003b). |
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Figure 25:
Comparison of the amplitudes (left panel) and phases (right panel) of ingression-egression
correlations (Section 4.4.5) at a focus depth of computed with ray theory (“eikonal”,
Equation (71)) and with the wave theory (“hydromechanical”, Equations (72, 73)). In both cases,
an empirical dispersion correction has been applied (see Section 4.4.3). The black points correspond
to focus points where the photospheric magnetic field is weaker than and the red points
correspond to focus points where the surface magnetic field is larger than . There is, in
general, good correspondence between the results of the two methods, though the scatter in the
phases appears to increase with increasing phase shifts. From Lindsey and Braun (2004). |
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Figure 26:
Spatial averages of quiet Sun local control correlations. (a) Results obtained using the
wave theory Green’s functions. (b) Results of using ray theory. The numbers along each curve denote
the cyclic frequency in units of . In both cases, notice that the phase is not zero. From
Lindsey and Braun (2004). |
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Figure 27:
Geometry for far-side imaging. (a) Two-skip correlation scheme. (b) One-skip/three-skip
correlation. In far-side imaging the data on the visible disk are used to estimate the wavefield at focal
points on the far-side of the Sun. From Braun and Lindsey (2001). |
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Figure 28:
Time-distance relations at various focal depths, computed from a standard solar model,
based on ray theory, at . Each curve corresponds to different target depths, as indicated.
For each curve, the dots correspond to modes whose values are multiples of 10, starting with
at the right end of each curve. The highest- mode which can reach the target depth is
marked by an open circle on each curve. The value decreases in either direction away from the
open circle along the curve. From Chou et al. (1999). |
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Figure 29:
Line-of-sight velocity maps showing supergranular-scale flow, based on SOHO/MDI high
spatial resolution Dopplergrams. Left panel: Line-of-sight projection of near-surface flows inferred
from direct modeling of seismic data. Right panel: Velocity map obtained by averaging the
sequence of Dopplergrams used in the seismic analysis. From Woodard (2002). |
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Figure 30:
Comparison of the time-distance and normal mode methods for determining the solar
rotation. The angular velocity is plotted versus latitude for six different depths. The solid curve is
the symmetric component of the time-distance results, and the dashed lines are formal errors from
the inversion. The dotted curve is the result of an OLA inversion of MDI frequency splittings. From
Giles (1999). |
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Figure 31:
North-south average of rotational velocity at different latitude from ring-diagram analysis.
The results obtained using RLS inversions are shown by dashed lines (with dotted lines marking
the 1 error limits) and the results obtained by using OLA inversions by crosses with error bars.
For comparison, the solid line shows the rotational velocity obtained from inversion of global-mode
frequency splittings (after subtracting out the surface rotation velocity used in tracking each region).
From Basu et al. (1999). |
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Figure 32:
Zonal flows from ring-diagram analysis at depths of (dashed curve) and
(solid curve). Each panel corresponds to the average over yearly MDI Dynamics Program
intervals as indicated. The zonal velocity plots for each year have been offset by subtracting a
depth-dependent constant. The error bars shown are 10 times larger than the estimated formal errors
in order to be visible. From Haber et al. (2002). |
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Figure 33:
Meridional circulation in 1996-98 inferred from p-mode travel times at various latitudes
as a function of scaled radius . The blue (red) curves are for the northern (southern) latitudes.
The turnover point is roughly at . The assymetry between the two hemispheres is
probably caused by an error in the orientation of the MDI camera. From Giles (1999). |
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Figure 34:
(a) Meridional flow measured by time-distance helioseismology at depths of (solid
lines) and (dash-dotted lines) as a function of latitude for different Carrington rotations.
(b) Northward residual flows, computed by removing the CR1911 flow at each Carrington rotation.
The grey regions show the latitudes of activity. The residuals are consistent with a converging flow
toward the mean latitude of activity. From Zhao and Kosovichev (2004). |
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Figure 35:
(a) Meridional circulation residuals as a function of time and latitude, measured by
time-distance helioseismology at a depth of about . The residuals are obtained by removing
a time average. The green (red) shades correspond to excess poleward (equatorward) velocities, with
values in the range . The thick black line is the mean latitude of activity. The residuals
are consistent with a flow diverging from the mean latitude of activity. (b) Zonal flow residuals
(torsional oscillations) as a function of time and latitude. The red (blue) shades correspond to flows
that are faster (slower) than average. From (Beck et al., 2002). |
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Figure 36:
Sketch of the time-varying components of the large-scale flows, averaged in longitude
over several rotation periods. Shown is a meridional plane in the northern hemisphere; the prograde
direction is coming out of the page. Zonal flows (a) introduce a shear around the
mean latitude of activity (AR). Residual meridional flows ( ) converge toward active
latitudes near the surface (e) and diverge deeper inside the Sun (d). The whole pattern of flows drifts
equatorward through the solar cycle. The dashed streamlines that connect the horizontal flows are a
suggestion by Zhao and Kosovichev (2004). From Gizon (2003). |
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Figure 37:
Vertical velocity from ring-diagram inversions constrained by mass conservation, averaged
over Carrington rotation CR 1988 (2002 March 30 - April 25), as a function of latitude and depth.
Top panel: Surface magnetic flux as a function of latitude (solid line) and averaged over (dotted
curve). Bottom panel: Vertical velocity derived from GONG data after removing the large-scale flow
components. The dashed line indicates the zero contour; the dotted lines indicate 20%, 40%, 60%,
and 80% of the minimum and the maximum of the color scale. The dots indicate the depth-latitude
grid. From Komm et al. (2004). |
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Figure 38:
Decrease in the one-bounce travel time at relative to the other ’s as a
function of time. The filled circles denote the MDI results, and the open circles the GONG results.
The horizontal bar associated with each point indicates the duration of each observation (the sequence
of observing runs is labelled by a series of increasing numbers). The thick horizontal line indicates
the range of solar minimum period used for MDI, and the dashed line for GONG. The solid line is
the sunspot number from the Greenwich sunspot data. From Chou and Serebryanskiy (2002). |
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Figure 39:
Map of near-surface horizontal flows obtained for Carrington rotation 1949 using f-mode
time-distance helioseismology. A smooth rotation profile has been subtracted. The dark shades are
shorter travel time anomalies that correspond to regions of enhanced magnetic activity. Local flows
converge toward complexes of activity with an amplitude of . Notice also the poleward
meridional flow. From Gizon et al. (2001). |
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Figure 40:
Left column: OLA inversion of horizontal flows around active region NOAA 9433 on 23
April 2001 obtained using ring-diagram analysis. The depths shown are (upper panel) and
(lower panel). The green and red shades are for the two polarities of the magnetic field. The
horizontal and vertical axes give the longitude and the latitude in heliospheric degrees. Right panel:
Horizontal flows around NOAA 9433 as a function of depth and latitude, averaged over the longitude
range and the time period 23-27 April 2001. The transition between inflow and
outflow occurs near depth. From Haber et al. (2004). |
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Figure 41:
Left column: Longitudinal averages of surface horizontal flows obtained with f-mode
time-distance helioseismology (Carrington rotations 1948 and 1949 in 1999). The vertical lines show
the mean latitude of activity. The solid curves show zonal flows and meridional circulation averaged
over all longitudes and both hemispheres. The zonal flows are obtained after subtraction of a smooth
three-term fit to the rotation profile. The dashed curves are averages that exclude local areas in
and around active regions (all points within of strongly magnetized regions). Right panel:
Sketch of surface flows around active regions: (a) zonal shear flow, (b)
inflow, (c) active region super-rotation, and (m) background meridional circulation. From
Gizon (2003). |
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Figure 42:
Horizontal flows around a sunspot on 1998 December 6, obtained with f-mode
time-distance helioseismology. Overplotted is the line-of-sight magnetic field (MDI high resolution)
truncated at . The moat flow beyond the penumbra (red) is clearly visible. Adapted from
Gizon et al. (2000). |
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Figure 43:
Flow maps around a sunspot at depths of (a) , (b) , and (c)
, infered using p-mode time-distance helioseismology. Arrows show the magnitude
and direction of horizontal flows. The color background shows vertical flows (positive values for
downward). The contours at the center correspond to the umbral and penumbral boundaries.
The longest arrow represents for (a) and for (b) and (c). From Zhao
et al. (2001). |
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Figure 44:
Vertical cuts through the sunspot shown in Figure 43. Upper panel: Cut in the east-west
direction. Lower panel: Cut in the north-south direction. The location of the umbra and the penumbra
is indicated at the top of each frame. The longest arrow corresponds to a velocity of .
From Zhao et al. (2001). |
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Figure 45:
Horizontal Doppler diagnostics applied to data from MDI, which includes sunspot
group AR 9363. Left: Observed velocity field, shown as vectors, for a focal depth of and
superimposed a magnetogram. Middle: Same vector field as shown in the left panel, but superimposed
over an image of the horizontal divergence of the velocity. Right: Velocity field and its divergence
with the focal plane placed below the surface. The companion Movie 46 shows the flow
field as a function of focus depth. From Braun and Lindsey (2003). |
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Figure 46:
(Movie)
Companion movie to Figure 45, showing the flow field as a function of focus depth. From
Braun and Lindsey (2003). |
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Figure 47:
Absorption coefficients plotted as a function of frequency. The left panels show results for
sunspot NOAA 5254 and the right panels are for sunspot NOAA 5229. The vertical panels represent
different bins of harmonic degree. From Braun (1995). |
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Figure 48:
Egression power maps of active region complex NOAA 8179 obtained for the
period 1998 March 16. (a) MDI magnetogram. Panels (b), (c), and (d) show helioseismic
images of the regions with depths at , and below the solar surface, respectively.
The dark shades correspond to acoustic absorption. The acoustic glory is seen in panel (b) as a bright
halo of excess emission. The linear gray scale at the bottom applies to all of the helioseismic
images that are normalized to unity for the mean quiet Sun. From Braun and Lindsey (1999). |
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Figure 49:
Phase shifts between outgoing and outgoing waves from Hankel analysis, as a function of
frequency for several different radial orders . The data points with error bars are -averaged
values for NOAA 5254 (Braun, 1995). The solid lines are from a model by Cally et al. (2003). From
Cally et al. (2003). |
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Figure 50:
Observed acoustic power maps, outgoing intensity maps, phase-shift maps, and
envelope-shift maps focusing at the solar surface at (first row), (second row),
(third row), (fourth row), and (fifth row). Gray scales at different
frequencies are the same except in the envelope-shift map at , where the gray scale is 1.5 times
larger. The envelope peak of the cross-correlation function provides information about wave travel
time, associated with the group velocity along the wave path. The phase time of the cross-correlation
function between ingoing and outgoing waves provides information about phase changes along the
wave path, including the phase change at the boundaries of the mode cavity and flux tubes. From
Chou et al. (1999). |
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Figure 51:
(Movie)
Wave speed perturbation associated with the active region AR 9393. The positive values
are shown in red and the negative ones in blue. The movie shows the evolution of the wave speed
perturbation from March 25 until April 1, 2001. Courtesy of A.G. Kosovichev. |
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Figure 52:
Horizontal slices through the inferred sound-speed perturbations under a sunspot
using GONG data. From top to bottom the rows correspond to the depth ranges ,
, , and . The inversion results for uncropped (left
column) and cropped data (right column) are qualitatively similar. From Hughes et al. (2005). |
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Figure 53:
Relative differences of the squared sound speed between active and quiet regions obtained
by inverting the frequency differences measured using ring-diagram analysis. The blue solid line shows
the RLS inversion results, with the blue dotted lines showing the 1 error limit. The red points
are the SOLA (Subtractive OLA) inversion results. The vertical error bars are the 1 error, and
the horizontal error bars mark the distance between the quartile points of the averaging kernels and
are a measure of the resolution of the inversions. The magnetic field strengh in each panel is a local
magnetic activity index. From Basu et al. (2004). |
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Figure 54:
(Movie)
Movie showing far-side and front-side images of the Sun from March to June 2001. The
large activity complex AR 9393 is seen for several rotation periods. The horizontal axis spans all
longitudes measured in the Carrington frame of reference. The fuzzy image shows shorter wave travel
times (in red) caused by active regions located on the far-side of the Sun. The Earth-side image of
the Sun shows continuum intensity (active regions appear as red/dark shades). |
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Figure 55:
Composite images of SOHO/MDI magnetograms and far-side images made using
SOHO/MDI Doppler data. The magnetograms have a higher spatial resolution. The boundary in the
far-side images is where the algorithm is switched from two-skip/two-skip imaging, used to image in
center of the far-side, to three-skip/one-skip imaging used further from the antipode of the visible
disk. See Figure 27 for a diagram of the geometry. The color scale for the far-side images shows the
time delay between the egression and the ingression. The sign of the signal in active regions is of
the sense of faster propagation time underneath active regions. The top four panels show the far-side
images for 1999 April 22-25. The bottom panels shows the magnetogram for Carrington rotation
1999 May 1-28. From Braun and Lindsey (2001). |
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Figure 56:
(Movie)
Remapped and filtered MDI Dopplergram after the Bastille Day flare. The
flare signal was extracted, enhanced by a factor of 4, and then superimposed on the Dopplergrams.
The movie shows the temporal evolution of the signal. From Kosovichev and Zharkova (1998). |
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Figure 57:
(Movie)
Movie of the divergence signal (inward travel times minus outward times) with magnetic
field signal overlaid. The magnetic field is displayed as green and red for the two polarities when
the magnitude of the field is larger than . The gray scale is for the divergence signal with
white shades for outflow and dark shades for inflow. The colorbar indicates the travel time difference
in seconds. The line corresponds to the equator and corresponds to Carrington
longitude . The time-distance data is averaged over starting at the time shown on top.
The movie shows the time evolution of the supergranulation pattern over 6 days. From Duvall Jr
and Gizon (2000). |
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Figure 58:
Flow field (arrows) and wave-speed perturbations (grey-scale background) inferred by
Kosovichev and Duvall Jr (1997) with time-distance helioseismology. Typically there are upflows in
the hotter areas where the sound speed is higher, and downflows in the cooler areas. From Kosovichev
and Duvall Jr (1997). |
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Figure 59:
Correlation coefficient between the horizontal divergence at each depth, derived from
p-mode time distance helioseismology, and the divergence image of the uppermost layer. The dashed
line is from Duvall Jr (1998) and the solid line is from Zhao and Kosovichev (2003a). |
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Figure 60:
Comparison of the observed horizontal divergence, derived from seismic holography
(left-most panels), with those from a control computation which assumes that the Doppler signatures
are concentrated at the solar surface (right-most panels). The middle panels show the weighted pupils
used in the analysis. The companion Movie 61 shows the observed and control data as a function of
focus depth. From Braun and Lindsey (2003). |
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Figure 61:
(Movie)
Companion movie to Figure 60, showing the observed and control data as a function of
focus depth. From Braun and Lindsey (2003). |
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Figure 62:
Effect of the Coriolis force on supergranular flows. (a) Plot of the correlation coefficient,
, between the vertical vorticity ( ) and the horizontal divergence ( ). (b) Horizontal
averages of the vorticity, (solid) and (dashed), over regions with and
, respectively. A vorticity of corresponds to an angular velocity of
or a typical circular velocity of . From Gizon and Duvall Jr (2003). |
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Figure 63:
Anomalous pattern motion of supergranulation measured by tracking the horizontal
divergence of the flow field observed with time-distance helioseismology. (a) Pattern rotation for
time-lags , , , and . The cross shows the equatorial pattern rotation measured
by Snodgrass and Ulrich (1990) for from Mount Wilson Dopplergrams. (b) Meridional
motion of the pattern as a function of time-lag . Notice that the meridional motion appears to
be equatorward for . A P-angle correction was applied to the data. From Gizon and
Duvall Jr (2003). |
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Figure 64:
(Movie)
Movie showing the evolution of the spatial cross-correlation of the divergence signal at
the equator as a function of from to . (Movie still for time lag .) The
original MDI Doppler velocity images were tracked at the Carrington rate. |
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Figure 65:
(Movie)
Movie showing the evolution of the average map of the divergence signal in a
equatorial region as a function of tracking velocity in the range from to
with respect to the Carrington velocity. The movie still displays the temporal average ( ) tracked
at a velocity above the Carrington velocity. This average is constructed from maps
derived from time-distance helioseismology every . Courtesy of J. Zhao. |
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Figure 66:
Ratio , as defined by Lisle et al. (2004), at the equator as a function of tracking
velocity (offset with respect to Carrington velocity). This curve is an average over one month of
data. The vertical dashed lines correspond to tracking offsets and . Courtesy
of J. Zhao. |
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Figure 67:
Power spectrum of the horizontal divergence signal for (equator) in 1997.
Divergence maps were tracked in a frame of reference with angular velocity (small
magnetic features). Left panel: Cylindrical section at constant wavenumber , as
a function of azimuth and frequency . Middle panel: Fit to the data according to
the model described in the text. The values of the parameters are measured at fixed by
a two-dimensional fit to the power spectrum in ( , )-space. For this particular example,
and (excess power in the prograde direction). Right panel: Ratio of the
data to the fit; no bias is observed. From Gizon and Duvall Jr (2004). |
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Figure 68:
(a) Advective flow versus at . Each curve corresponds to a different
year (from blue in 1996 to red in 2002). is measured with respect to the reference
(small magnetic features). Only the north-south symmetric component is shown. (b) Residuals of
after subtraction of a smooth fit (dashed line in panel a). The scale bar has units of m s-1.
The black curve is an estimate of the mean latitude of activity. (c) Advective flow versus
at . Only the north-south antisymmetric component is shown. (d) Residual meridional
circulation with respect to the dashed line in panel (c). The scale bar has units of m s-1. |
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Figure 69:
(a) Oscillation frequency versus at latitudes
(solid), (dotted), and (dashed). For reference, the orange curve is
. Also shown is the half width at half maximum (HWHM, ) of
the Lorentzian profiles for the same latitudes. The quality factor is at .
(b) Power spectrum corrected for rotation and meridional circulation and averaged over azimuth and
latitude. The distribution of power as a function of frequency is affected only by the known temporal
window function. From Gizon et al. (2003). |