Is the Answer Blowing in the Solar Wind?
SEP 01, 1995
Two decades ot solar seismic studies have let us peek inside the Sun. Now, echos of rumblings in the solar core may have been found in an unexpected place—the solar wind.
DOI: 10.1063/1.2808153
In trying to understand the surprise, wonder and skepticism that have greeted the paper by David Thomson, Carol Maclennan and Louis Lanzerotti of AT&T Bell Labs in the 13 July issue of Nature, it helps to remember a few salient facts. First, the authors claim that the solar wind has components that oscillate in a coherent, stable manner. This claim contradicts the standard view that the solar wind is turbulent and possesses no long‐lived structures, other than those associated with solar rotation and structure.
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