Imaging of the solar interior: Possibilities and limitations

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4853, Issue , 2002, Pages 327-340

  Kosovichev, Alexander G ^a   Duvall Jr , Thomas L ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic tomography; Helioseismology; Solar activity; Solar interior

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; FUNCTIONS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SUN; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

BORN APPROXIMATION; CROSS-COVARIANCE FUNCTION; HELIOSEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SOLAR ACOUSTIC WAVES; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SOLAR INTERIOR; WAVE-FRONT HEALING EFFECT;

ACOUSTIC IMAGING;

EID: 0038531118     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.460418     Document Type: Conference Paper

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