ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS Are granules good tracers of solar surface velocity fields?
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Using a numerical simulation of compressible convection with radiative transfer mimicking the solar photosphere, we compare the velocity field derived from granule motions to the actual velocity field of the plasma. We thus test the idea that granules may be used to trace large-scale velocity fields at the sun's surface. Our results show that this is indeed the case provided the scale separation is sufficient. We thus estimate that neither velocity fields at scales less than 2500 km nor time evolution at scales shorter than 0.5 hr can be faithfully described by granules. At larger scales the granular motions correlate linearly with the underlying fluid motions with a slope of < ∼ 2 reaching correlation coefficients up to ∼ 0.9. A&A manuscript no. (will be inserted by hand later) Your thesaurus codes are: missing; you have not inserted them ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS Are granules good tracers of solar surface velocity fields?
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تاریخ انتشار 2008