Bibcode
Eff-Darwich, A.; Korzennik, S. G.
Bibliographical reference
Solar Physics, Volume 287, Issue 1-2, pp. 43-56
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2013
Journal
Citations
22
Refereed citations
18
Description
The dynamics of the solar radiative interior are still poorly
constrained by comparison to the convective zone. This disparity is even
more marked when we attempt to derive meaningful temporal variations.
Many data sets contain a small number of modes that are sensitive to the
inner layers of the Sun, but we found that the estimates of their
uncertainties are often inaccurate. As a result, these data sets allow
us to obtain, at best, a low-resolution estimate of the solar-core
rotation rate down to approximately 0.2 R ⊙. We present
inferences based on mode determination resulting from an alternate
peak-fitting methodology aimed at increasing the amount of observed
modes that are sensitive to the radiative zone, while special care was
taken in the determination of their uncertainties. This methodology has
been applied to MDI and GONG data, for the whole Solar Cycle 23, and to
the newly available HMI data. The numerical inversions of all these data
sets result in the best inferences to date of the rotation in the
radiative region. These results and the method used to obtain them are
discussed. The resulting profiles are shown and analyzed, and the
significance of the detected changes is discussed.
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