Gravity waves with a new spin

Douglas Gough
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Douglas Gough: Institute of Astronomy, The Observatories, University of Cambridge

Nature, 1997, vol. 388, issue 6640, 324-325

Abstract: The Sun's outer layers rotate gradually more slowly as they lose angular momentum to the solar wind. It had been assumed that the Sun's core carried on regardless, being almost uncoupled to the outer, convective zone. But helioseismology – the study of oscillations of the Sun — has shown that in fact the core rotates at about the same speed as the convective zone. What couples them? It could be gravity waves, similar to the subsurface waves in the Earth's oceans.

Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1038/40970

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