The New Solar Physics

Our concepts of the sun have been altered by four new developments--the discovery of apparent global solar oscillations, an unsettled and unsettling deficit of neutrinos from the center of the sun, a new elucidation of the role of solar wind, and some disturbing historical facts that shake old concepts of solar constancy and regularity.

Autorentext

John A. Eddy is a senior scientist at the High Altitude Observatory~ National Centre for Atmospheric Research~ specializing in solar physics~ archaeoastronomy~ and the history of astronomy.

Inhalt

1 Solar Physics in Broad Perspective, 2 Historical and Arboreal Evidence for a Changing Sun, 3 Neutrinos from the Sun, 4 Streams, Sectors, and Solar Magnetism, 5 Seismic Sounding of the Sun