Bibcode
DOI
González Hernández, I.; Patrón, J.; Roca-Cortés, T.; Bogart, R. S.; Hill, F.; Rhodes, E. J., Jr.
Referencia bibliográfica
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 535, Issue 1, pp. 454-463.
Fecha de publicación:
5
2000
Revista
Número de citas
8
Número de citas referidas
6
Descripción
Ring diagram analysis, a technique of local helioseismology, has been
applied to 120 regions of 15deg×15deg over
the solar surface in order to study the mass motions in the upper layers
of the convection zone. The horizontal flows from ~0.95
Rsolar up to the surface have been investigated in a region
spanning 360deg in longitude and about 75deg in
latitude. The regions were tracked in groups of five centered at 0,
+/-15°, and +/-30° in latitude over a timespan of +/-768 minutes
from central meridian crossing. More than 30,000 full-disk Dopplergrams
taken by the Solar Oscillation Investigation/Michelson Doppler Imager
(SOI/MDI) on the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft
have been analyzed to create a synoptic map. The images were taken
during the first SOI Dynamics Program in 1996 May and June and have a
pixel size of ~2" allowing coverage in l up to 1200. The p-modes
analyzed cover a range of 0<=n<=7 and 183<=l<=999. The
estimated velocity vectors provide information on the size and structure
of large-scale flows. The flows exhibit markedly meridional behavior
between 0.975 and 0.997 Rsolar. The zonal component is mainly
ruled by the differential rotation.