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太阳黑子对日震波的散射:波前愈合和折叠

Scattering of helioseismic waves by a sunspot: wavefront healing and folding

Z. -C. Liang, L. Gizon, H. Schunker

摘要:

我们观察和表征的散射声波波包的太阳黑子,在政权的波长是可比的太阳黑子的大小。从随机波场的互协方差函数测量波的走时和振幅的空间地图。平均过程使得输入波包是平面波包。观测表明,太阳黑子引起的旅行时间扰动的大小随着波从太阳黑子传播出去而减小--这是一种被称为波前愈合的有限波长现象。观测还表明,波的振幅在穿过太阳黑子后会减小。这种振幅减小的一个重要部分是由于太阳黑子引入的快速波速扰动引起的波能散焦。这种"几何衰减“除了对波的物理吸收外,还将有助于波的振幅减小。此外,我们还观察到远离中心路径的波振幅的增强:衍射射线与未扰动射线(焦散线)相交,波前折叠并重复三次。因此,我们发现,光线追迹是有用的解释这些现象,虽然它不能解释波前愈合。

英文摘要:

We observe and characterize the scattering of acoustic wave packets by a sunspot, in a regime where the wavelength is comparable to the size of the sunspot. Spatial maps of wave traveltimes and amplitudes are measured from the cross-covariance function of the random wave field. The averaging procedure is such that incoming wave packets are plane wave packets. Observations show that the magnitude of the traveltime perturbation caused by the sunspot diminishes as waves propagate away from the sunspot -- a finite-wavelength phenomenon known as wavefront healing. Observations also show a reduction of the amplitude of the waves after their passage through the sunspot. A significant fraction of this amplitude reduction is due to the defocusing of wave energy by the fast wave-speed perturbation introduced by the sunspot. This ``geometrical attenuation'' will contribute to the wave amplitude reduction in addition to the physical absorption of waves. In addition, we observe an enhancement of wave amplitude away from the central path: diffracted rays intersect with unperturbed rays (caustics) and wavefronts fold and triplicate. Thus we find that ray tracing is useful to interpret these phenomena, although it cannot explain wavefront healing.

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