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Asteroseismology: The Impact of Solar Space Observations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

H.S. Hudson*
Affiliation:
Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA96822

Abstract

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Observations from space relevant to solar global properties (oscillations, magnetic activity, etc.) are helpful both scientifically and technically in preparing for stellar observations. This paper summarizes the results from the main previous experiments (ACRIM, SOUP, and IPHIR), and also give an initial technical report from the SXT instrument on board Yohkoh, launched in August 1991. The solar observations to date demonstrate the existence of several mechanisms for low–level variability: spots, faculae, the photospheric network, granulation, and p–mode oscillations. The observations of oscillations have been particularly helpful in setting limits on solar interior rotation. In addition to the solar processes, stars of other types may have different mechanisms of variability. These may include the analogues of coronal holes or solar flares, modes of oscillation not detected in the Sun, collisions with small bodies, duplicity, and probably mechanisms not invented yet but related in interesting ways to stellar convection and magnetism.

Type
I. Setting the stage: Sun, Stars Galaxies and the Universe
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1993

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