Acoustic waves in a stratified atmosphere

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Issue		A&A Volume 370, Number 3, May II 2001


Page(s)		1088 - 1091
Section		The Sun
DOI		http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20010278

A&A 370, 1088-1091 (2001)
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20010278

III. Temperature inhomogeneities

G. Bodo¹, W. Kalkofen², S. Massaglia³ and P. Rossi¹

¹ Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, Strada dell'Osservatorio 20, 10025 Pino Torinese, Italy
    e-mail: rossi@to.astro.it
² Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
    e-mail: wolf@cfa.harvard.edu
³ Dipartimento di Fisica Generale dell'Università, Via Pietro Giuria 1, 10125 Torino, Italy
    e-mail: massaglia@ph.unito.it

(Received 3 December 1999 / Accepted 15 February 2001)

Abstract
In a gravitationally stratified atmosphere, small temperature variations distort the paths of acoustic waves from the rectilinear paths in an isothermal atmosphere. For temperature increasing upward, low-frequency waves near the acoustic cutoff frequency propagating at a given polar angle are refracted towards the vertical direction (focused) and high-frequency waves, away from the vertical (defocused). Similarly, for temperature increasing towards the axis of a vertical cylinder, low-frequency waves are focused and high-frequency waves are defocused. This effect of temperature inhomogeneities may be important for wave propagation in the chromospheric K $_{\rm 2v}$ bright point phenomenon.

Key words: hydrodynamics -- Sun: chromosphere -- waves

Offprint request: G. Bodo, bodo@to.astro.it

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