Acoustic flux in the granulation in FeI 5576 from HINODE observations

J.-M. Malherbe, Th. Roudier et al, 2010, Observatoire de Paris, Observatoire Midi Pyrénées, Lockheed Martin Solar Astrophysics Laboratory
HINODE 75 mn sequence, SOT NFI, FeI 5576, 9 wavelengths step 40 mA, pixel size 0.08 arc sec, time step 28.75 s, 158 cycles

Dopplershifts from the bisector method, chords 80 mA (180 km), 120 mA (130 km), 160 mA (80 km)

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The full sequence of RAW data

The full sequence of RAW FeI 5576 A data: 158 time steps of 9 points line scans, corresponding to 158 * 9 = 1422 images
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Movie 1

Amplitude of velocities (green), phase lag between 130 and 180 km (blue = positive, red = negative), absolute value of acoustic flux (white)
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Continuum intensity (green), amplitude of velocities (red), absolute value of phase lag between 130 and 180 km (blue), absolute value of acoustic flux (white)
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Continuum intensity (green) and acoustic flux between 130 and 180 km (blue = up, red = down)
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Line center intensity (green) and acoustic flux between 130 and 180 km (blue = up, red = down)
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Continuum intensity (green), layer 1 acoustic flux (130-180 km, red), layer 2 acoustic flux (80-130 km, blue)
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Continuum intensity (green), radial velocity at 130 km (blue = up, red = down), absolute value of acoustic flux (130-180 km, white)
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Radial velocity alone at 130 km (blue = up, red = down) together with acoustic flux
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Continuum intensity (green), vertical GRADIENT of radial velocity 130-180 km (blue = positive, red = negative), absolute value of acoustic flux (130-180 km, white)
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Radial velocity gradient alone (blue = positive, red = negative) together with acoustic flux
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Trees of Fragmenting Granules (TFG, false colour, granules of the same family have the same colour) and absolute value of acoustic flux (white)
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Acoustic flux 130 - 180 km (white = up, black = down)
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Radial velocity oscillations at 130 km (blue = up, red = down), continuum intensity (green) and absolute value of acoustic flux (white)
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Velocity divergence at mesogranular scale (blue = positive, red = negative), continuum intensity (green) and absolute value of acoustic flux (white)
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Divergence of horizontal velocities at 130 km (blue = positive, red = negative), continuum intensity (green) and absolute value of acoustic flux (white)

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Vorticity of horizontal velocities at 130 km (blue = positive, red = negative), continuum intensity (green) and absolute value of acoustic flux (white)
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Lagrangian acceleration or total force per unit mass (blue = positive, red = negative), continuum intensity (green) and absolute value of acoustic flux (white)
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