MEASUREMENT OF HIGH-DEGREE SOLAR OSCILLATION FREQUENCIES

Citation
Kt. Bachmann et al., MEASUREMENT OF HIGH-DEGREE SOLAR OSCILLATION FREQUENCIES, The Astrophysical journal, 443(2), 1995, pp. 837-842
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal title
ISSN journal
0004637X
Volume
443
Issue
2
Year of publication
1995
Part
1
Pages
837 - 842
Database
ISI
SICI code
0004-637X(1995)443:2<837:MOHSOF>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
We present m-averaged solar p- and f-mode oscillation frequencies over the frequency range 1.8 < nu < 5.0 mHz and the spherical harmonic deg ree range 100 less than or equal to l less than or equal to 1200 from full-disk, 1000 x 1024 pixel, Ca II intensity images collected 1993 Ju ne 22-25 with a temporal cadence of 60 s. We itemize the sources and m agnitudes of statistical and systematic uncertainties and of small fre quency corrections, and we show that our frequencies represent an impr ovement in accuracy and coverage over previous measurements. Our frequ encies agree at the 2 mu Hz level with Mount Wilson frequencies determ ined for l less than or equal to 600 from full-disk images, and we fin d systematic offsets of 10-20 mu Hz with respect to frequencies measur ed from Big Bear and La Palma observations. We give evidence that thes e latter offsets are indicative of spatial scaling uncertainties assoc iated with the analysis of partial-disk images. In comparison with the ory, our p-mode frequencies agree within 10 mu Hz of frequencies predi cted by the Los Alamos model but are as much as 100 mu Hz smaller than frequencies predicted by the Denmark and Yale models at degrees near 1000. We also find systematic differences between our n=0 frequencies and the frequencies closely agreed upon by all three models.