New picture for the internal rotation of the sun
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:6591929
For the last decade, solar-acoustic oscillations have been used to probe the physical properties of the solar interior. The endeavor is called helioseismology and is based on the fact that shifts in the frequency of an oscillation mode, as observed at the surface, contain information about the physical environment in those regions of the interior where the oscillation has energy. The thesis describes a helioseismic quest to determine the angular velocity inside the Sun as a function of depth and latitude. The author has analyzed rotational frequency splittings extracted from 15 days of full-disk observations of the solar-acoustic oscillations (l=15-99) obtained with the Fourier Tachometer (a Doppler analyzing instrument designed by Tim Brown). The observed frequency splittings are compared to those generated by several different physically-motivated models for the solar internal angular velocity.
- Research Organization:
- National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 6591929
- Report Number(s):
- PB-89-113377/XAB; NCAR/CT-116
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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