Application of Mutual Information Methods in Time-Distance Helioseismology
Abstract
We apply a new technique, the mutual information (MI) from information theory, to time-distance helioseismology, and demonstrate that it can successfully reproduce several classic results based on the widely used cross-covariance method. MI quantifies the deviation of two random variables from complete independence and represents a more general method for detecting dependencies in time series than the cross-covariance function, which only detects linear relationships. We briefly describe the MI-based technique and discuss the results of applying MI to derive the solar differential profile, a travel-time deviation map for a sunspot, and a time-distance diagram from quiet-Sun measurements.
- Publication:
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Solar Physics
- Pub Date:
- March 2015
- DOI:
- 10.1007/s11207-015-0650-y
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1501.05597
- Bibcode:
- 2015SoPh..290..659K
- Keywords:
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- Helioseismology;
- observations;
- theory;
- Velocity fields;
- interior;
- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 14 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Solar Physics