Ground-based measurements of solar intensity oscillations

Jimenez, A.; Palle, P. L.; Roca-Cortés, T.; Domingo, V.; Korzennik, S.
Bibliographical reference

Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 172, no. 1-2, Jan. 1987, p. 323-326. CAICYT-supported research.

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1987
Number of authors
5
IAC number of authors
1
Citations
22
Refereed citations
21
Description
Ground-based multichannel photometry of integral sunlight has been obtained at Izaña (Tenerife) during three months in 1984 with a photometer built at ESTEC. Power spectra of solar irradiance variations of individual days show power in the 5 min band just above noise at a level comparable to the one found from the SMM data (Woodard and Hudson, 1983). Previous similar ground work had never achieved the signal level required at the 5 min interval. When combining the best 7 contiguous days of data, the signature of p mode solar oscillations spectra appears, but individual identification is difficult due to a low signal-to-noise ratio.