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Atmospheric radiation boundary conditions for high frequency waves in time-distance helioseismology

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The temporal covariance between seismic waves measured at two locations on the solar surface is the fundamental observable in time-distance helioseismology. Above the acoustic cutoff frequency (∼5.3 mHz), waves are not trapped in the solar interior and the covariance function can be used to probe the upper atmosphere. We wish to implement appropriate radiative boundary conditions for computing the propagation of high-frequency waves in the solar atmosphere. We consider the radiative boundary conditions recently developed by Barucq et al. (2017) for atmospheres in which sound-speed is constant and density decreases exponentially with radius. We compute the cross-covariance function using a finite element method in spherical geometry and in the frequency domain. The ratio between first-and second-skip amplitudes in the time-distance diagram is used as a diagnostic to compare boundary conditions and to compare with observations. We find that a boundary condition applied 500 km above the photosphere and derived under the approximation of small angles of incidence accurately reproduces the 'infinite atmosphere' solution for high-frequency waves. When the radiative boundary condition is applied 2 Mm above the photosphere, we find that the choice of atmospheric model affects the time-distance diagram. In particular, the time-distance diagram exhibits double-ridge structure when using a VAL atmospheric model.
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hal-01622697 , version 1 (24-10-2017)
hal-01622697 , version 2 (20-12-2017)

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Damien Fournier, Michaël Leguèbe, Chris S. Hanson, Laurent Gizon, Hélène Barucq, et al.. Atmospheric radiation boundary conditions for high frequency waves in time-distance helioseismology. Astronomy and Astrophysics - A&A, 2017, 608 (A109), pp.1-9. ⟨10.1051/0004-6361/201731283⟩. ⟨hal-01622697v2⟩
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