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The internal rotation of the sun

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Rotation and Mixing in Stellar Interiors

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An introduction to current techniques to infer the Sun's internal rotation from observed acoustic oscillation modes is given, and some representative results are shown.

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Däppen, W. (1990). The internal rotation of the sun. In: Goupil, MJ., Zahn, JP. (eds) Rotation and Mixing in Stellar Interiors. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 366. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-53059-2_19

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