Challenges to Theories of the Structure of Moderate-Mass Stars: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the Institute for Theoretical Physics University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA 19–22 June 1990

Program at ITP: Helioseismology — Probing the interior of a star....Pages 1-9
Solar oscillations and the physics of the solar interior....Pages 11-36
Helium gravitational settling below the solar convection zone....Pages 37-41
Influence of the upper layers of the sun on the p-mode frequencies....Pages 43-50
Accuracy tests for the computation of solar models....Pages 51-55
Comparison of solar models with Los Alamos and Livermore opacities....Pages 57-59
Helioseismic inversion....Pages 61-80
An inversion for the rotation rate in the solar interior....Pages 81-86
The role of f modes in the inversion of high-ℓ rotational splittings....Pages 87-92
On the 2-dimensional rotational inversion problem....Pages 93-100
Implication of the l dependence and the frequency dependence of long-term frequency variation....Pages 101-110
A new inversion for the hydrostatic stratification of the sun....Pages 111-120
Absorption of p-mode waves by magnetic fields....Pages 121-134
Prospects of solar Quantum Chaos....Pages 135-140
Granulation: Non-adiabatic patterns and shocks....Pages 141-146
Large eddy simulations of compressible convection....Pages 147-156
Theoretical spectrum of solar convection....Pages 157-162
The supergranulation spectrum....Pages 163-169
Vertically coherent compressible convective flows in a layer with a high density contrast....Pages 171-178
High wavenumber thermal convection enhanced in regions of partial ionization....Pages 179-186
The organization of turbulent convection....Pages 187-194
Convection and its influence on oscillations....Pages 195-212
Interaction of acoustic oscillations with time-dependent compressible convection....Pages 213-220
The vibrational stability of the sun....Pages 221-224
Convective penetration into stellar radiation zones....Pages 225-232
The effects of magnetic stretching in the convective overshoot region....Pages 233-240
Towards a theory of wave transport....Pages 241-246
Transport in oscillatory flows....Pages 247-252
Simulation of the effect of active regions on intermediate-degree solar oscillations....Pages 253-258
Effects of spatial filtering on high- ℓ power spectra and rotational splitting inversions....Pages 259-264
On the analysis of physical wave trains....Pages 265-270
Solar oscillation ring diagrams from Mt. Wilson full-disk magneto-optical Dopplergrams....Pages 271-275
Measurements of intermediate- and high-degree (20 < l <600) p-mode solar oscillation power and energy....Pages 277-284
Further evidence for radial variations in the solar equatorial angular velocity profile....Pages 285-292
Remarks on the evolution of low-mass stars: More or less opaque?....Pages 293-308
Applications of stellar seismology to intermediate mass stars: On the main sequence and beyond....Pages 309-324
Surface chemical composition, nuclear processing, and deep mixing: Main sequence to first dredge-up....Pages 325-344
Main-sequence mass-loss: Lithium dilution in the hyades and the sun....Pages 345-352
Comparing Victoria and Yale evolutionary tracks....Pages 353-358
Wimp-like stellar models and the subgiant branch....Pages 359-366
Problems for the WIMP Hypothesis?....Pages 367-372
What has happened to arcturs?....Pages 373-380
Pulsations of Arcturus....Pages 381-386
Nonadiabatic nonradial pulsations of RCrB stars....Pages 387-392
Challenges to theories of the structure of moderate mass stars....Pages 411-414