Bibcode
DOI
Bertello, L.; Henney, C. J.; Ulrich, R. K.; Varadi, F.; Kosovichev, A. G.; Scherrer, P. H.; Cortés, T. Roca; Thiery, S.; Boumier, P.; Gabriel, A. H.; Turck-Chièze, S.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 535, Issue 2, pp. 1066-1077.
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2000
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41
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29
Description
During the years 1996 through 1998 the Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI)
and the Global Oscillations at Low Frequency (GOLF) experiments on the
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) mission have provided unique
and nearly uninterrupted sequences of helioseismic observations. This
paper describes the analysis carried out on power spectra from 759 days
of calibrated disk-averaged velocity signals provided by these two
experiments. The period investigated in this work is from 1996 May 25 to
1998 June 22. We report the results of frequency determination of
low-degree (l<=3) acoustic modes in the frequency range between 1.4
mHz and 3.7 mHz. Rotational splittings are also measured for nonradial
modes up to 3.0 mHz. The power spectrum estimation of the signals is
performed using classical Fourier analysis and the line-profile
parameters of the modes are determined by means of a maximum likelihood
method. All parameters have been estimated using both symmetrical and
asymmetrical line profile-fitting formula. The line asymmetry parameter
of all modes with frequency higher than 2.0 mHz is systematically
negative and independent of l. This result is consistent with the fact
that both MDI and GOLF data sets investigated in this paper are
predominantly velocity signals, in agreement with previous results. A
comparison of the results between the symmetric and asymmetric fits
shows that there is a systematic shift in the frequencies for modes
above 2.0 mHz. Below this frequency, the line width of the modes is very
small and the time base of the data does not provide enough statistics
to reveal an asymmetry. In general, the results show that frequency and
rotational splitting values obtained from both the MDI and GOLF signals
are in excellent agreement, and no significant differences exist between
the two data sets within the accuracy of the measurements. Our results
are consistent with a uniform rotation of the solar core at the rate of
about 435 nHz and show only very small deviations of the core structure
from the standard solar model.