Bibcode
García, R. A.
Referencia bibliográfica
Ph.D. Thesis, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain, (1996)
Fecha de publicación:
8
1996
Número de citas
7
Número de citas referidas
5
Descripción
The solar core is the region where all the nuclear reactions take place
and, therefore, where the energy is generated. Understanding the physics
of these internal layers, the theory of solar and stellar structure can
be settled into form grounds. However this is the most unknown region of
the Sun. Helioseismology, mainly through the gravity modes (g modes), is
the adequate technique to understand its physical structure and
dynamics. The detection of solar g modes is a great challenge due to
their low predicted amplitudes and the high noise level at low
frequencies, where they are expected to be. So far, from earth based
observatories and networks, this task has proved to be impossible.
Therefore space based instrumentation has the only chance to detect such
modes. This is the case of the helioseismology experiments, GOLF, VIRGO
and MDI on board SOHO spacecraft. In the present work, we have studied
in detail the GOLF experiment, a resonant scattering spectrophotometer.
A complete numerical simulation has been made, which allowed us to
define and to evaluate different signals combination and their
calibration methods, to finally obtain the integrated solar radial
velocity and magnetic field. To face the problem of the solar background
noise spectra we have simulated it and a new signal has been studied:
the differential velocity Δ V, which reduces the level of
simulated noise allowing a direct identification of the g-mode spectrum.
This signal has also been tested over a series of 69 days span measured
by an earth based resonant scattering spectrometer: the SPACE-3.