Detection of inner core translational oscillations using superconducting gravimeters

Abstract

An attempt has been made to search for the translational oscillations of the Earth’s solid inner core in the gravity measurements recorded with the superconducting gravimeters (SG) from the worldwide network of the Global Geodynamics Project (GGP). All the SG data were prepared and analyzed by the same method to remove accurately the signatures related to gravity tides, local barometric pressure, the Earth’s rotation, the long-term trend and so on. We obtained the estimations of the power spectral densities of each residual series and the estimations of the product spectral densities in the subtidal band (0.162–0.285 cph) were obtained by using a multi-station stacking technique after further eliminating atmospheric effects. The inner core translation triplet was detected in the subtidal band. We find 6 groups of signal with high signal-to-noise ratio that are consistent with the characteristics of the triplet, and 4 groups of the results that are close to the previous studies and the differences are less than 0.92%. It implies that the groups of signatures all have the possibility to be related to the inner core translational oscillations.

Keywords

Slichter mode / triplet / the product spectral density / global superconducting gravimeters

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