Variation of the low-degree solar acoustic mode parameters over the solar cycle

Jiménez, A.; Roca Cortés, T.; Jiménez-Reyes, S. J.
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Solar Physics, v. 209, Issue 2, p. 247-263 (2002).

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2002
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3
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43
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38
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VIRGO/SPM is a helioseismic sunphotometer on board SOHO that observes the disk-integrated sunlight irradiance at three different colors (red, green, and blue). The data obtained for SPM since the beginning of the SOHO mission, April 1996, to March 2001 have been used to study the differences of the p-mode parameters during the solar activity cycle. These time series have been divided in sub-series of 100 days, transformed to power spectra and averaged in sets of three to yield a total number of six averaged power spectra (around one per year). A new way of analyzing the power spectrum has been applied to the six power spectra of each color; it consists of fitting the whole p-mode spectrum at once with a unique background. The results for the frequencies, line widths, power, mode energy, energy rate fed in the mode and splittings along the activity cycle are found, compared and discussed.
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