The Solar Acoustic Spectrum and Eigenmode Parameters

Hill1, Stark, Stebbins

  • 1F. Hill, E. R. Anderson, J. W. Harvey, R. P. Hubbard, J. R. Kennedy, J. W. Leibacher, J. A. Pintar, C. G. Toner, R. Toussaint, and W. E. Williams are with the National Solar Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO), Post Office Box 26732, Tucson, AZ 85726-6732, USA. P. B. Stark is with the Department of Statistics and Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. R. T. Stebbins and D. A. Haber are with JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA. H. M. Antia is with the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, India. T. M. Brown and S. Tomczyk are with the High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO 80307, USA. T. L. Duvall is with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Stanford University, Center for Space Science and Astrophysics (CSSA), Stanford, CA 94305, USA. D. H. Hathaway is with the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Mail Code ES82, Huntsville, AL 35812, USA. R. Howe and M. J. Thompson are with the Astronomy Unit, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London E1 4NS, UK. H. P. Jones is with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Southwest Station, NOAO, Tucson, AZ 85726, USA. S. G. Korzennik is with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. A. G. Kosovichev and J. Schou are with Stanford University, CSSA, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. K. G. Libbrecht is with the California Institute of Technology, 264-33, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. E. J. Rhodes is with the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|May 31, 1996
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