Bibcode
Lazrek, M.; Pantel, A.; Fossat, E.; Gelly, B.; Schmider, F. X.; Fierry-Fraillon, D.; Grec, G.; Loudagh, S.; Ehgamberdiev, S.; Khamitov, I.; Hoeksema, J. T.; Pallé, P. L.; Régulo, C.
Bibliographical reference
Solar Physics, Volume 166, Issue 1, pp.1-16
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1996
Journal
Citations
45
Refereed citations
29
Description
The Sun is not a rigid body and it is well known that its surface
rotation is differential, the polar regions rotating substantially
slower than the equator. This differential rotation has been
demonstrated by helioseismology to continue down to the base of the
convective zone, below which it becomes closer to a rigid body rotation.
Far deeper, inside the energy generating core, the rotation has
generally been assumed to be much faster, keeping memory of the
presumably high speed of the young Sun. However, several recent results
of helioseismology have decreased this likelihood more and more, so that
the core rotation could be suspected to be only marginally, or even not
at all faster than the envelope. Certain results would even imply a core
rotation slower than the envelope, an interesting but unlikely
possibility. We present here a complete analysis of the rotational
splitting of the low degree modes measured in three different time
series obtained in 1990, 1991, and 1992 by the IRIS full-disk network.
With a time of integration slightly longer than 4 months, the splitting
has been measured by 4 different global methods on 42 doublets of l = 1,
35 triplets of l = 2, and 30 quadruplets of l = 3. With a high level of
confidence, our result is consistent with a rigid solar core rotation.