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Acoustic-Power Maps of Solar Active Regions with Direction Filters and Phase-Velocity Filters
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Dean-Yi Chou Submitted: 2009-02-19 11:56
We study the properties of power maps of solar acoustic waves filtered with direction
filters and phase-velocity filters. A direction filter is used to isolate acoustic waves
propagating in a narrow range of directions. The acoustic-power map of the waves filtered
with a direction filter shows extended reduced-power features behind magnetic regions with
respect to the wave direction. A phase-velocity filter is further applied to isolate waves with
similar wave paths. In the power maps of the waves filtered with both a direction filter and
a phase-velocity filter, a reduced-power image of a sunspot appears behind the sunspot with
respect to the wave direction. The distance between the sunspot and the secondary image is
consistent with the one-skip travel distance of the wave packet associated with the phase-velocity
filter. The waves filtered with direction and phase-velocity filters at the location of
the secondary image could be used to probe the sunspot. In the quiet Sun, spatial fluctuations
exist in any acoustic-power map. These fluctuations are mainly caused by interference
among modes with the same frequency. The fluctuations are random with two properties:
They change rapidly with time, and their magnitude decreases with the square root of the
number of frames used in computing the acoustic-power map.
Authors: Dean-Yi Chou, Zhi-Chao Liang, Ming-Hsu Yang, Ming-Tsung Sun
Projects: None
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Publication Status: solar physics, in press
Last Modified: 2009-02-23 08:55
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