Spectral Analyses of Solar Photospheric Eluctuations. IV: The Low-Wavenumber Power of Granulation Brightness Eluctuations
Abstract
Synthetic one-dimensional scans of brightness fluctuations are generated from intergranulegranule profiles (IGP), which approximate observed scans of granulation fluctuations except that the local (i.e. IGP) mean intensity is kept constant. Comparing the power spectrum of such scans with the power spectrum of observed scans shows that nearly two thirds of the low-wavenumber (k < 0.0025 km-1) granulation power is due to this variable mean effect. This result favors the interpretation of granulation as turbulent thermal convection but cannot rule out the laminar convection interpretation.
- Publication:
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Solar Physics
- Pub Date:
- October 1975
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00153209
- Bibcode:
- 1975SoPh...44..293E
- Keywords:
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- Photosphere;
- Solar Granulation;
- Solar Spectra;
- Brightness;
- Free Convection;
- Power Spectra;
- Spectrum Analysis;
- Solar Physics;
- Convection;
- Power Spectrum;
- Spectral Analysis;
- Thermal Convection;
- Laminar Convection