Bibcode
Ulrich, R. K.; Henney, C. J.; Schimpf, S.; Fossat, E.; Gelly, B.; Grec, G.; Loudagh, S.; Schmider, F.-X.; Palle, P.; Regulo, C.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 280, no. 1, p. 268-281
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1993
Citations
12
Refereed citations
10
Description
It has been known since the work by Claverie et al. (1982) that
integrated-sunlight velocities measured with the resonance scattering
technique show variations with time scales of weeks to months. The cause
can be understood in terms of the effects of solar activity as was
pointed out by Edmunds & Gough (1983) and Andersen & Maltby
(1983). The latter authors included a model calculation based on sunspot
areas which showed good promise of being able to quantitatively
reproduce the observed velocity shifts. We discuss in this paper a new
modeling effort based on daily magnetograms obtained at the 150-ft tower
on Mt. Wilson. This type of database is more quantitative than sunspot
area. Similar maps of magnetically sensitive quantities will be measured
on a continuous time base as part of several planned helioseismology
experiments (from space with the Solar Oscillations Imagery/Michelson
Doppler Imager (SOI/MDI) experiment on the Solar and Heliospheric
Observatory (SOHO), see Scherrer et al. (1991) or with ground-based
networks, see Hill & Leibacher (1991)). We discuss the correlations
between various magnetically sensitive quantities and develop a new
model for the effects of magnetic field on line profiles and surface
brightness. From these correlations we integrate the line profile
changes over the solar surface using observed magnetic field strengths
measured at lambda 5250.2. The final output is a new model for the
effects of magnetic fields on integrated sunlight velocities which we
compare with daily offset velocities derived from the International
Research on the Interior of the Sun (IRIS)-T instrument at the
Observatorio del Teide.