Additional Evidence Supporting a Model of Shallow, High-Speed Supergranulation
Abstract
Recently, Duvall and Hanasoge ({\it Solar Phys.} {\bf 287}, 71-83, 2013) found that large distance separation travel-time differences from a center to an annulus implied a model of the average supergranular cell that has a peak upflow of at a depth of and a corresponding peak outward horizontal flow of at a depth of . In the present work, this effect is further studied by measuring and modeling center-to-quadrant travel-time differences , which roughly agree with this model. Simulations are analyzed that show that such a model flow would lead to the expected travel-time differences. As a check for possible systematic errors, the center-to-annulus travel-time differences are found not to vary with heliocentric angle. A consistency check finds an increase of with the temporal frequency by a factor of two, which is not predicted by the ray theory.
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@article{arxiv.1404.2533,
title = {Additional Evidence Supporting a Model of Shallow, High-Speed Supergranulation},
author = {T. L. Duvall and S. M. Hanasoge and S. Chakraborty},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.2533},
year = {2015}
}