Surface Waves in Solar Granulation Observed with SUNRISE

Roth, M.; Franz, M.; Bello González, N.; Martínez-Pillet, V.; Bonet, J. A.; Gandorfer, A.; Barthol, P.; Solanki, S. K.; Berkefeld, T.; Schmidt, W.; del Toro Iniesta, J. C.; Domingo, V.; Knölker, M.
Bibliographical reference

The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 723, Issue 2, pp. L175-L179 (2010).

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2010
Number of authors
13
IAC number of authors
2
Citations
26
Refereed citations
21
Description
Solar oscillations are expected to be excited by turbulent flows in the intergranular lanes near the solar surface. Time series recorded by the IMaX instrument on board the SUNRISE observatory reveal solar oscillations at high spatial resolution, which allow the study of the properties of oscillations with short wavelengths. We analyze two time series with synchronous recordings of Doppler velocity and continuum intensity images with durations of 32 minutes and 23 minutes, respectively, recorded close to the disk center of the Sun to study the propagation and excitation of solar acoustic oscillations. In the Doppler velocity data, both the standing acoustic waves and the short-lived, high-degree running waves are visible. The standing waves are visible as temporary enhancements of the amplitudes of the large-scale velocity field due to the stochastic superposition of the acoustic waves. We focus on the high-degree small-scale waves by suitable filtering in the Fourier domain. Investigating the propagation and excitation of f- and p 1-modes with wavenumbers k>1.4 Mm-1, we also find that exploding granules contribute to the excitation of solar p-modes in addition to the contribution of intergranular lanes.
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