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Enhancing core-diffracted arrivals by supervirtual interferometry

Bharadwaj, Pawan ; Nissen-Meyer, Tarje ; Schuster, Gerard ; Mai, P. Martin

In: Geophysical Journal International, 2014, vol. 196, no. 2, p. 1177-1188

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    Titre
    • Enhancing core-diffracted arrivals by supervirtual interferometry
    Auteur
    • Bharadwaj, Pawan. Physical Sciences & Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. E-mail: pawanbharadwaj@ismu.ac.in
    • Nissen-Meyer, Tarje. ETH Zurich, Institute of Geophysics, Switzerland
    • Schuster, Gerard. Physical Sciences & Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. E-mail: pawanbharadwaj@ismu.ac.in
    • Mai, P. Martin. Physical Sciences & Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. E-mail: pawanbharadwaj@ismu.ac.in
    Type de document
    • Postprint
    Langue
    • Anglais
    Publié dans
    • Geophysical Journal International, 2014, vol. 196, no. 2, p. 1177-1188. Oxford University Press
    Autre version électronique
    Identifiant OAI-PMH
    • oai:doc.rero.ch:295066
    Summary
    A supervirtual interferometry (SVI) method is presented that can enhance the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of core diffracted waveforms by as much as $O(\sqrt{N})$, where N is the number of inline receivers that record the core-mantle boundary (CMB) diffractions from more than one event. Here, the events are chosen to be approximately inline with the receivers along the same great circle. Results with synthetic and teleseismic data recorded by USArray stations demonstrate that formerly unusable records with low SNR can be transformed to high SNR records with clearly visible CMB diffractions. Another benefit is that SVI allows for the recording of a virtual earthquake at stations not deployed during the time of the earthquake. This means that portable arrays such as USArray can extend the aperture of one recorded earthquake from the West coast to the East coast, even though the teleseism might have only been recorded during the West coast deployment. In summary, SVI applied to teleseismic data can significantly enlarge the catalogue of usable records both in SNR and available aperture for analysing CMB diffractions. A potential drawback of this method is that it generally provides the correct kinematics of CMB diffractions, but does not necessarily preserve correct amplitude information