Winter 2006/07 Course : Helioseismology (53034)

    Laurent Gizon
    Email: gizon@mps.mpg.de

    This page: http://www.mps.mpg.de/projects/seismo/Helioseismology.html

    Dates : 5-16 February 2007, Monday thru Friday
    First week: F5.104 Seminarraum 17 (Astrophysik), North Campus, University of Goettingen, Time: 10:00-11:30 and 12:30-14:00
    Second week: Lecture room, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Time: 10:00-12:00 and 13:00-14:00
    No class on Wednesday Feb 14

    UnivIS Information system

    Useful links:
    Lecture Notes on Stellar Oscillations by J. Christensen-Dalsgaard
    Helioseismology by J. Christensen-Dalsgaard (Rev. Mod. Phys.)
    Local Helioseismology by L. Gizon and A.C. Birch (Liv. Rev. Solar Phys.)
    Helioseismology data for download
    GONG Science special issue
    SPD Summer School lectures on solar oscillations by JCD: one (pdf), two (pdf) and three (pdf)
    SPD Summer School lectures on inversions by MJT (pdf)

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    1. Short introduction (slides)
    2. Observational properties of stars
    3. Dynamical properties of stars
    4. Linear stellar oscillations
    4.1 Basic equations
    4.2 Eigenvalue problem of linear oscillations
    4.3 First-order perturbation theory
    4.4 Simple asymptotic descriptions of frequencies
    5. Inversion of p-mode frequencies
    5.1 Abel inversion of Duvall's law
    5.1 RLS and OLA inversions
    6. Discussion of Radial pulsations of stars by Ledoux and Pekeris
    7. Local helioseismology
    7.1 Local power spectra (hands on)
    7.2 Ring diagram analysis
    7.3 Time distance analysis
    7.3 Two-dimensional OLA inversion of travel times (J. Jackiewicz): Slides & Paper
    7.4 Helioseismic holography (H. Schunker)

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    Below is where lecture notes will be made available by students (tex & pdf)!

    Lecture Notes
    [In this tar-file, you find the lecture notes as tex-file with all figures as well as the pdf-file.]