Sunquakes : probing the interior of the sun / J.B. Zirker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zirker, Jack B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Helioseismology.

Convection (Astrophysics).

Physical Description:

x, 265 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

Summary:

The whole riveting story of helioseismology is now told by J. B. Zirker in Sunquakes. Zirker is that rare animal who can both communicate the most demanding technical detail and make it accessible." -- "New Scientist

Contents:

The discovery

Confusion and clarity

A closer look at solar oscillations

The scramble for observations, 1975-1985

Wheels within wheels: the sun's internal rotation

Banishing the night

Neutrinos from the sun

Pictures in sound

Rotation, convection, and how the twain shall meet

The solar dynamo

Ad astra per aspera

"To the stars through endeavor"

Some late news.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

080187419X

OCLC:

52030324