Abstract
Calculation of time-distance curves in helioseismology can be formulated as a blind-deconvolution (or system identification) problem. A classical solution in one-dimensional space is Kolmogorov's Fourier domain spectral-factorization method. The helical coordinate system maps two-dimensions to one. Likewise a three-dimensional volume is representable as a concatenation of many one-dimensional signals. Thus concatenating a cube of helioseismic data into a very long 1-D signal and applying Kolmogorov's factorization, we find we can construct the three-dimensional causal impulse response of the Sun by deconcatenating the Kolmogorov result. Time-distance curves calculated in this way have the same spatial and temporal bandwidth as the original data, rather than the decreased bandwidth obtained obtained by cross-correlating traces. Additionally, the spectral factorization impulse response is minimum phase, as opposed to the zero phase time-distance curves produced by cross-correlation.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Claerbout, J. F.: 1992, Earth Soundings Analysis: Processing Versus Inversion. Blackwell Science Inc., New York.
Claerbout, J. F.: 1998, Geophysics 63, 1532.
Duvall, T. L., Jefferies, S. M., Harvey, J. W., and Pomerantz, M. A.: 1993, Nature 362, 430.
Giles, P. M., Duvall, T. L., and Scherrer, P. H.: 1997, Nature 390, 52.
Kolmogorov, A. N.: 1939, C.R. Acad. Sci. 208, 2043.
Kosovichev, A. G. and Duvall, T. L.: 1997, in F. Pijpers and C. Rosenthal (eds.), Solar Convection and Oscillations and their Relationship, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Holland, p. 241.
Wilson, G.: 1969, SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 6(1), 1.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Rickett, J., Claerbout, J. Calculation of the sun's acoustic impulse response by multi-dimensional spectral factorization. Solar Physics 192, 203–210 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005205406377
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005205406377