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astro-ph1996
On the orbital decay of the PSR J0045-7319 Binary
Pawan Kumar, Eliot J. Quataert
Recent observations of PSR J0045-7319, a radio pulsar in a close eccentric orbit with a massive main sequence B-star companion, indicate that the system's orbital period is decreas…
astro-ph1996
Excitation of Solar Acoustic Oscillations
Pawan Kumar
The stochastic excitation of solar oscillations due to turbulent convection is reviewed. A number of different observational results that provide test for solar p-mode excitation t…
astro-ph1996
Asymmetries of Solar p-mode Line Profiles
Pawan Kumar, Douglas Abrams
Recent observations indicate that solar p-mode line profiles are not exactly Lorentzian, but rather exhibit varying amounts of asymmetry about their respective peaks. We analyze p-…