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Inverting Helioseismic Data

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Progress in Solar Physics

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Methods by which the observed frequencies of solar oscillations can be, and in some cases have been used to infer the internal structure of the Sun are discussed. Attention is confined to so-called inverse methods that identify and extract the information that is actually contained in the data. Because only a finite quantity of data can ever be acquired, the functions describing the interior stratification of the Sun can never be established completely without the acceptance of certain assumptions. Nevertheless, the assumptions that are required are simple to understand, and the results do not depend on the complicated and uncertain theory of stellar evolution which has traditionally been used to construct solar models. First results of the inversions have given us an estimate of the sound speed and the angular velocity throughout much of the solar interior. These estimates have already stimulated speculation which hopefully will encourage further theoretical and observational research that will improve our understanding of the Sun.

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    Douglas Gough

  2. Observatoires du Pic-du-Midi et de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, France

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Gough, D. (1985). Inverting Helioseismic Data. In: De Jager, C., Švestka, Z. (eds) Progress in Solar Physics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4588-3_4

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