Influence of LowDegree HighOrder pMode Splittings on the Solar Rotation Profile.pdfVIP

Solar Physics DOI: 10.1007/•••••••••••••••• Influence of Low-Degree High-Order p-Mode Splittings on the Solar Rotation Profile R.A. García1 · S. Mathur1 · J. Ballot2 · 8 0 A. Eff-Darwich3,4 · S.J. Jiménez-Reyes4 · 0 S.G. Korzennik5 2 b Received 10 October 2007; accepted 31 December 2007 e c F Springer •••• 1 1 Abstract The solar rotation profile is well constrained down to about 0.25 R⊙ thanks to ] the study of acoustic modes. Since the radius of the inner turning point of a resonant h p acoustic mode is inversely proportional to the ratio of its frequency to its degree, - only the low-degree p modes reach the core. The higher the order of these modes, the o r deeper they penetrate into the Sun and thus they carry more diagnostic information t s on the inner regions. Unfortunately, the estimates of frequency splittings at high a frequency from Sun-as-a-star measurements have higher observational errors due to [ mode blending, resulting in weaker constraints on the rotation profile in the inner 1 core. Therefore inversions for the solar internal rotation use only modes below 2.4 v 0 mHz for ℓ ≤ 3. In the work presented here, we used an 11.5 year-long time series to 1 compute the rotational frequency splittings for modes ℓ ≤ 3 using velocities measured 5 with the GOLF instrument. We carried out a theo