Jul 31, 2017
The study of solar vibrations reveals the astonishing behavior of the thermonuclear center of the Sun
By analyzing more than 16 years of data collected by the GOLF instrument onboard the SOHO satellite, an international collaboration involving two researchers from the Department of Astrophysics-Laboratory AIM of CEA-IRFU has demonstrated a rapid rotation of heart of the sun. For the first time, researchers were able to indirectly determine the properties of solar gravity waves, oscillations affecting the innermost layers of the star.
