Solar oscillation frequencies and the equation of state
Abstract
Observed oscillation frequencies of the Sun can be used to investigate the properties of matter under conditions that cannot be achieved on Earth. In particular the frequencies are sensitive to the equation of state. A recently developed treatment of the partition functions leads to a substantial improvement in the agreement between the observed and the computed frequencies.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- December 1988
- DOI:
- 10.1038/336634a0
- Bibcode:
- 1988Natur.336..634C
- Keywords:
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- Equations Of State;
- Helioseismology;
- Magnetohydrodynamics;
- Solar Oscillations;
- Convection Currents;
- Stellar Evolution;
- Stellar Models;
- Stellar Structure;
- Solar Physics