Outgoing modal solutions for Galbrun's equation in helioseismology

Abstract We construct modal outgoing Green's kernels for the simplified Galbrun's equation under spherical symmetry, in the context of helioseismology. The coefficients of the equation are C 2 functions representing the solar interior model S , complemented with an isothermal atmospheric model. We solve the equation in vectorial spherical harmonics basis to obtain modal equations for the different components of the unknown wave motions. These equations are then decoupled and written in Schrodinger form, whose coefficients are shown to be C 2 apart from at most two regular singular points, and to decay like a Coulomb potential at infinity. These properties allow us to construct an outgoing Green's kernel for each spherical mode. We also compute asymptotic expansions of coefficients up to order r − 3 as r tends to infinity, and show numerically that their accuracy is improved by including the contribution from the gravity although this term is of order r − 3 .

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