| Sounding Solar and Stellar Interiors: Proceedings of the 181st Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in Nice, France, September 30-O Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Provost, Janine (Editor), Schmider, François-Xavier (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0792348397 ISBN-13: 9780792348399 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 1997 Annotation: Since 1975, and the identification of the solar 5-minute oscillations as global acoustic modes, helioseismology has proven to be a very active field. It enabled thorough investigation of the physical processes occurring inside the stars, thanks to the extreme precision of the measured frequencies. In 1995, a new step was achieved with the completion of the GONG network and the launch of the SoHO satellite, increasing by several orders of magnitude the quality of the available data. The IAU 181 Symposium was chosen by all these consortia as a key time to present their first results. This book contains a synthesis of the progress in the observations and of up-to-date knowledge of the internal structure and rotation of the Sun inferred from helioseismology. It also presents our expectation of what can be learned about other stars with asteroseismology. In this field, encouraging results have been obtained and another step will be made with COROT, the first satellite dedicated to asteroseismology. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Physics - Astrophysics - Science | Astronomy |
| Dewey: 523.76 |
| Series: International Astronomical Union Symposia |
| Physical Information: 0.95" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.44 lbs) 438 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Ce volume contient les revues invitees et les presentations orales du Symposium VAl 181 Sounding Solar and Stellar Interiors, tenu a Nice du 30 septembre au 3 octobre 1996. Les posters presentes a cette conference 1 sont publies dans un volume separe. Depuis Ie lancement avec succes du satellite SoRO Ie 2 Decembre 1995, et apres des annees d'efforts importants dans Ie domaine de l'helio- et l'asterosismologie, il a semble approprie de tenir un symposium dedie aux consequences de la sismologie pour notre connaissance de la structure in- terne du Soleil et des etoiles. Le but etait de presenter a la communaute entiere les nouveaux resultats de l'heliosismologie obtenus aussi bien par les experiences spatiales que par les reseaux exist ants au sol, ainsi que les avancees theoriques dans les domaines de la structure et de la physique de l'interieur solaire. Ce but a ete largement atteint: alors que SoRO ne fournissait des don- nees que depuis environ 6 mois, la qualite des donnees heliosismologiques a ete largement amelioree, de nouvelles techniques ont ete elaborees comme la "telechronosismologie" (nom propose par D. Gough dans sa conclusion pour l'analyse temps-distance), et de nouveaux mecanismes physiques ont ete proposes pour tenter de reduire les differences persist antes entre Ie Soleil observe et les modeles standard. |