Seismology of the Sun and the Distant Stars

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Properties of Solar Oscillations....Pages 1-22
Theoretical Aspects of Helio- and Asteroseismology....Pages 23-53
Observations of Low-Degree P-Mode Oscillations In 1984....Pages 55-62
Another Reason to Search For Solar g-Modes and New Limits from Solar Ellipticity Measurements....Pages 63-72
Phase Studies of Solar 5 Min Oscillations....Pages 73-80
Observations of Gravity Waves in the Solar Atmosphere....Pages 81-82
Is there an Anisotropy of p-Modes ?....Pages 83-84
Influence of Spatial Filtering on Possible Anisotropies in Solar Oscillations....Pages 85-92
The Detection of Global Convective Wave Flows on the Sun....Pages 93-102
First Evidence of a Large-Scale Circulation in the Solar Convection Zone....Pages 103-103
Solar Doppler Shifts: Sources of Continuous Spectra....Pages 105-116
Comments on Techniques for Spectral Deconvolution....Pages 117-120
Sound Speed in the Interior of Solar Models....Pages 121-123
Asymptotic Sound-Speed Inversions....Pages 125-140
Asymptotics and Quantum Chaos in Stellar Oscillations....Pages 141-171
An improved asymptotic formula for solar gravity-mode periods....Pages 173-175
Solar G Modes: A Method to Find the Depth of the Convective Envelope....Pages 177-186
The Influence of Convection Theory Uncertainties on the Deduction of the Speed of Sound in the Solar Interior....Pages 187-198
Measuring the Sun’s Internal Rotation Using Solar p-Mode Oscillations....Pages 199-214
Rotational Splitting of ℓ=1 Modes....Pages 215-221
Linewidth and Rotational Splitting of Low Degree Modes in the 5 Minute Region....Pages 223-228
Solar Core Rotation : A Down to Earth View....Pages 229-235
The Internal Rotation of the Sun....Pages 237-241
On the Solar Rotation....Pages 243-247
The Internal Rotation of the Sun....Pages 249-252
Magnetic torques and differential rotation....Pages 253-256
Internal Rotation of the Sun as a Consequence of Instabilities in the Radiative Interior....Pages 257-263
Finite Amplitude Limit of the 3He Instability....Pages 265-269
Is the Existence of a Strong Magnetic Field in the Sun’s Core Plausible?....Pages 271-274
Progress Report on Helium Abundance Determination....Pages 275-280
On Wave Reflection or Absorption at Hydromagnetic Critical Levels....Pages 281-292
On Umbral Oscillations as a Sunspot Diagnostic....Pages 293-301
Change of Solar Oscillation Eigenfrequencies with the Solar Cycle....Pages 303-304
Long Period Variations in the Solar Diameter....Pages 305-308
The 1984 Solar Oscillation Program of the Mt. Wilson 60-Foot Tower....Pages 309-332
The K 769.9 nm Line Profile....Pages 333-337
Ground Based Measurements of Global Solar Intensity Oscillations....Pages 339-342
A Liquid Crystal Modulator....Pages 343-345
A Fabry-Perot Based Stellar Seismometer....Pages 347-357
Applications of the Magneto-Optical Filter to Stellar Pulsation Measurements....Pages 359-375
A New Fabry-Perot Radial Velocity Spectrometer....Pages 377-389
Interferometric Stellar Oscillation Spectrometry....Pages 391-402
Absolute Astronomical Accelerometry....Pages 403-404
Evidence for P-Modes on Alpha Centauri and Procyon....Pages 405-416
A Review of the Rapidly Oscillating Ap Stars....Pages 417-440
Asterseismology for Certain Ap Stars....Pages 441-451
Nonradial Modes in Line-Profile Variable Stars....Pages 453-463
Observational Properties of Nonradial Oscillations in Early-Type Stars and their Possible Effect on Mass Loss: the Example of ζ Puppis (04 If)....Pages 465-466
Southern ZZ Ceti Stars....Pages 467-472
How Well Do We Know Stellar Parameters?....Pages 473-476
Back Matter....Pages 477-479