Sunquakes: Probing the Interior of the Sun

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One of the newest branches of astronomy, helioseismology - like its terrestrial counterpart - studies why the surface of the sun vibrates like a bell. Since the 1970s, astronomers have gained spectacular insights into the structure and composition of the sun's interior, transforming the way we understand stellar matter. In Sunquakes, Jack B. Zirker tells the story of this new science and explains the physics behind these illuminating vibrations. international efforts throughout the rest of the decade to explain this phenomenon. By the mid-1970s, scientists working independently in France, Germany, Japan and the US had developed a new theoretical model of the sun that postulated the existence of trapped sound and gravity waves as the cause for the roiling of the sun's surface. Using solar oscillation data, scientists derived for the first time the thermal and dynamic properties of the solar interior and revealed its complicated rotation patterns; even such astronomical mysteries as the deficit of solar neutrinos were solved. physicists and other theorists, and the technological innovations that makes solar observation more and more precise, Sunquakes provides professionals and non-scientists alike with an accessible guide to the field of helioseismology. The book concludes with an account of efforts to probe the interiors of stars far beyond our own solar system.

Product Info

ISBN: 080187419X

ISBN-13: 9780801874192

Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PR

Type: New

Binding: Softcover

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