Imaging sunspots using helioseismic methods

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue 1837, 2005, Pages 2761-2775

  Tong, C H ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Helioseismology; Seismology; Solar physics; Sunspots

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144434625     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2005.1647     Document Type: Review

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