Abstract
Helioseismologyis probing the internal structure and dynamics of the Sun with high precision. Frequencies of nearlyhalf a million resonant modes of oscillations have been measured bythe ground based Global Oscillation Network Group project and the space based Michelson Doppler Imager. Each of these modes is trapped in a different region of the solar interior and hence its frequencyis sensitive to structure and dynamics in the corresponding region. Conversely, by combining the information from these large number of independent modes of solar oscillations it has become possible to infer the structure and dynamics of the solar interior to unprecedented precision. These seismic data have provided a test for solar models and theories of stellar structure, evolution and angular momentum transport. Interesting dynamical phenomena have been inferred from these data which are not understood. Some of these developments are described.
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Antia, H.M. (2003). Solar Interior and Seismology. In: Antia, H.M., Bhatnagar, A., Ulmschneider, P. (eds) Lectures on Solar Physics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 619. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36963-5_3
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