34 research outputs found
Time--Distance Helioseismology Data Analysis Pipeline for Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager onboard Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO/HMI) and Its Initial Results
The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory
(SDO/HMI) provides continuous full-disk observations of solar oscillations. We
develop a data-analysis pipeline based on the time-distance helioseismology
method to measure acoustic travel times using HMI Doppler-shift observations,
and infer solar interior properties by inverting these measurements. The
pipeline is used for routine production of near-real-time full-disk maps of
subsurface wave-speed perturbations and horizontal flow velocities for depths
ranging from 0 to 20 Mm, every eight hours. In addition, Carrington synoptic
maps for the subsurface properties are made from these full-disk maps. The
pipeline can also be used for selected target areas and time periods. We
explain details of the pipeline organization and procedures, including
processing of the HMI Doppler observations, measurements of the travel times,
inversions, and constructions of the full-disk and synoptic maps. Some initial
results from the pipeline, including full-disk flow maps, sunspot subsurface
flow fields, and the interior rotation and meridional flow speeds, are
presented.Comment: Accepted by Solar Physics topical issue 'Solar Dynamics Observatory
Configuration Smells in Continuous Delivery Pipelines: A Linter and a Six-Month Study on GitLab
An effective and efficient application of Continuous Integration (CI) and Delivery (CD) requires software projects to follow certain principles and good practices. Configuring such a CI/CD pipeline is challenging and error-prone. Therefore, automated linters have been proposed to detect errors in the pipeline. While existing linters identify syntactic errors, detect security vulnerabilities or misuse of the features provided by build servers, they do not support developers that want to prevent common misconfigurations of a CD pipeline that potentially violate CD principles (“CD smells”). To this end, we propose CD-Linter, a semantic linter that can automatically identify four different smells in pipeline configuration files. We have evaluated our approach through a large-scale and long-term study that consists of (i) monitoring 145 issues (opened in as many open-source projects) over a period of 6 months, (ii) manually validating the detection precision and recall on a representative sample of issues, and (iii) assessing the magnitude of the observed smells on 5,312 open-source projects on GitLab. Our results show that CD smells are accepted and fixed by most of the developers and our linter achieves a precision of 87% and a recall of 94%. Those smells can be frequently observed in the wild, as 31% of projects with long configurations are affected by at least one smell
Observation and Modeling of the Solar-Cycle Variation of the Meridional Flow
We present independent observations of the solar-cycle variation of flows
near the solar surface and at a depth of about 60 Mm, in the latitude range
. We show that the time-varying components of the meridional flow
at these two depths have opposite sign, while the time-varying components of
the zonal flow are in phase. This is in agreement with previous results. We
then investigate whether the observations are consistent with a theoretical
model of solar-cycle dependent meridional circulation based on a flux-transport
dynamo combined with a geostrophic flow caused by increased radiative loss in
the active region belt (the only existing quantitative model). We find that the
model and the data are in qualitative agreement, although the amplitude of the
solar-cycle variation of the meridional flow at 60 Mm is underestimated by the
model.Comment: To be published in Solar Physcis Topical Issue "Helioseismology,
Asteroseismology, and MHD Connections
Subsurface Meridional Circulation in the Active Belts
Temporal variations of the subsurface meridional flow with the solar cycle
have been reported by several authors. The measurements are typically averaged
over periods of time during which surface magnetic activity existed in the
regions were the velocities are calculated. The present work examines the
possible contamination of these measurements due to the extra velocity fields
associated with active regions plus the uncertainties in the data obtained
where strong magnetic fields are present. We perform a systematic analysis of
more than five years of GONG data and compare meridional flows obtained by
ring-diagram analysis before and after removing the areas of strong magnetic
field. The overall trend of increased amplitude of the meridional flow towards
solar minimum remains after removal of large areas associated with surface
activity. We also find residual circulation toward the active belts that
persist even after the removal of the surface magnetic activity, suggesting the
existence of a global pattern or longitudinally-located organized flows.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figures, Submitted to Solar Physics. Accepted
(08/25/2008
Q
The Qweak experiment, which took data at Jefferson Lab in the period 2010 - 2012, will precisely determine the weak charge of the proton by measuring the parity-violating asymmetry in elastic e-p scattering at 1.1 GeV using a longitudinally polarized electron beam and a liquid hydrogen target at a low momentum transfer of Q2 = 0.025 (GeV/c)2. The weak charge of the proton is predicted by the Standard Model and any significant deviation would indicate physics beyond the Standard Model. The technical challenges and experimental apparatus for measuring the weak charge of the proton will be discussed, as well as the method of extracting the weak charge of the proton. The results from a small subset of the data, that has been published, will also be presented. Furthermore an update will be given of the current status of the data analysis
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Effect of shock waves on the absorption spectrum of ruby
The effect of shock loading upon the unpolarized absorption spectrum of ruby has been measured. Experiments were performed both above and below the Hugoniot elastic limit (HEL), with the experiment above the elastic limit failing due to extinction of the light upon impact. The experiments below the elastic limit were both done at about the same pressure (approx. 100 kbar), and show a shift of both absorption bands in the visible region toward shorter wavelength, the shifts agreeing well with those measured at a comparable hydrostatic pressure