Bibcode
García, R. A.; Mathur, S.; Ballot, J.; Eff-Darwich, A.; Jiménez-Reyes, S. J.; Korzennik, S. G.
Bibliographical reference
Solar Physics, Volume 251, Issue 1-2, pp. 119-133
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9
2008
Journal
Citations
50
Refereed citations
28
Description
The solar rotation profile is well constrained down to about 0.25 R
&sun; thanks to the study of acoustic modes. Since the
radius of the inner turning point of a resonant acoustic mode is
inversely proportional to the ratio of its frequency to its degree, only
the low-degree p modes reach the core. The higher the order of these
modes, the deeper they penetrate into the Sun and thus they carry more
diagnostic information on the inner regions. Unfortunately, the
estimates of frequency splittings at high frequency from Sun-as-a-star
measurements have higher observational errors because of mode blending,
resulting in weaker constraints on the rotation profile in the inner
core. Therefore inversions for the solar internal rotation use only
modes below 2.4 mHz for ℓ≤3. In the work presented here, we used
an 11.5-year-long time series to compute the rotational frequency
splittings for modes ℓ≤3 using velocities measured with the GOLF
instrument. We carried out a theoretical study of the influence of the
low-degree modes in the region from 2 to 3.5 mHz on the inferred
rotation profile as a function of their error bars.
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