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Two-Dimensional Helioseismic Inversions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
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We present results of investigations of different inversion methods for inferring from helioseismic observations the rotation rate in the solar interior as a function of radius and latitude, using a mode set similar to that which is expected from the GONG network.
The rotation of a star perturbs the frequency wnlm of a normal mode by
where n, l and m are the mode ‘quantum’ numbers, θ the colatitude, Ω the rotation rate and Knlm a known function. Until now the observations have not been in terms of individual Δwnlm ’s; rather, coefficients ai(n,l) of a parametrization of the m-dependence of Δwnlm have been given. By representing the latitudinal dependence of the rotation rate in terms of an expansion in cos θ, an inversion of the ai, can be carried out as a series of 1-dimensional inversions. Such inversions have been dubbed “1.5-dimensional”. Our present implementation of a 1.5D procedure follows Schou et al. (1992), and uses a1, a3 and a5.
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