Sounding the Solar Cycle with Helioseismology: Implications for Asteroseismology

Abstract

My brief for the IAC Winter School was to cover observational results on helioseismology, flagging where possible implications of those results for the asteroseismic study of solar-type stars. My desire to make such links meant that I concentrated largely upon results for low angular-degree (low-l) solar p modes, in particular results derived from "Sun-as-a-star" observations (which are of course most instructive for the transfer of experience from helioseismology to asteroseismology). The lectures covered many aspects of helioseismology - modern helioseismology is a diverse field. In these notes, rather than discuss each aspect to a moderate level of detail, I have instead made the decision to concentrate upon one theme, that of "sounding" the solar activity cycle with helioseismology. I cover the topics from the lectures and I also include some new material, relating both to the lecture topics and other aspects I did not have time to cover. Implications for asteroseismology are developed and discussed throughout.

arXiv comment31 pages, 15 figures; to appear as a chapter in "Asteroseismology", Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics, Volume XXII, edited by Pere L. Palle, published by Cambridge University Press

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