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Title: Observation of impulsive acoustic events and the excitation of solar oscillations. Annual report, 1 November 1991-31 October 1992

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6646852

The five-minute solar oscillation has been exploited in numerous seismic studies in which internal properties of the Sun have been inferred. It is generally regarded that these modes are excited by turbulent convection in the Sun's outermost layers. We observe the oscillatory wakes caused by impulsive events, matching those described by Lamb (1909). These correspond to the events modeled by Goode, et al., which they associate with excitation of the global five-minute oscillations.... Sun: Oscillations, Sun: Atmospheric motions, Sun: Atmosphere.

Research Organization:
New Jersey Inst. of Tech., Newark, NJ (United States). Dept. of Physics
OSTI ID:
6646852
Report Number(s):
AD-A-259788/8/XAB; CNN: F49620-92-J-0094
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English