Solar oscillations: Past, present, and f
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G. R. Isaak
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Article
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1981
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Springer
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English
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Observation of global oscillations of the Sun constitutes a primitive seismology of the solar interior. The frequencies, if correctly identified with definite normal modes of vibration, provide a measure of the average velocity of sound in the interior and thereby of its composition and temperature.