Frank P. Pijpers

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Book : 
"Methods in helio- and asteroseismology"
Imperial College Press, 2006                                         .
ISBN-10:     1-86094-755-7
ISBN-13: 978-1-86094-755-1

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research interests

Lecture course materials

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     Name: Frank P. Pijpers
    Email: F.Pijpers _AT_ imperial.ac.uk 
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• Waves, Convection & Turbulence
  • The interaction of sound waves with strong shocks : (A & A 295, 435) (1995)
  • The motion of dust in turbulent molecular clouds : (A & A 325, 300) (1997)
• Inversion & Image Reconstruction :
  • (MNRAS 307, 659) (1999)
  • Lect. Notes in Earth Sc. 92, ``Methods and Applications of Inversion'', Eds. Hansen, Jacobsen, Mosegaard, 241 (2000)
  • Look here for the IMA which organised a winter school on inverse problems in 1995 for which this invited review was written. This has now appeared in : IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications 90, "Inverse problems in wave propagation" eds. G. Chavent, G. Papanicolaou, P. Sacks, W. Symes, Springer, New York, 1997. (Also available as pdf version)
  • An application of the SOLA method on adaptive optics images of IR emission of vibrationally excited molecular hydrogen in Orion. (Proceedings Cargese conference, II)
• Interferometry
  • The interferometric determination of the radius of the nearby star tau Ceti : (A & A 406, L15)
• Dynamics of stellar atmospheres
  • (A & A 267, 471) (1993).
  • (ApJ 486, 457) (1997)
• Circumstellar flows in evolved stars (and in YSOs)
  • (A & A 286, 501) (1994)
• Asteroseismology
  • A method for the determination of the total angular momentum of stars that takes full differential rotation into account and is not dependent on inclination angle (A & A 402, 683) (2003).
  • A paper on selection of stars as targets for asteroseismic campaigns (A & A 400, 241) (2003).
  • A brief description of the prospect of asteroseismology on short period red giants (Third MONS workshop proceedings, I).
  • A brief description of the prospect of asteroseismology on pre-main sequence stars (Third MONS workshop proceedings, II).
  • A description of the MONS project and of asteroseismology (Proceedings Cargese conference, I)
• Helioseismology
  • The SOLA method is presented in (A & A 281, 231) (1994)
  • A SOLA-based method for 2-D rotational inversions is (MNRAS 279, 498) (1996)
  • for the proceedings of the IAU symposium 181, I wrote this .
  • For solar rotation inversions one can use either frequency splittings or a-coefficients. This paper shows relationships between them (A & A 326, 1235) (1997).
  • It is possible to determine the solar gravitational quadrupole moment helioseismically. This paper shows how and gives a value (MNRAS 297, L76) (1998).
  • It is possible to do tomographic (3-D) seismic imaging of structures just below the visible surface of the Sun. However, standard ray-tracing techniques are flawed. This paper describes a better way using the Rytov approximation (A & A 412, 257) (2003).
• Gas dynamics in AGNs (reverberation mapping)
  • (ASP conf. ser. 69, 69) (1994)
  • (MNRAS 271, 183) (1994)
• Time series analysis (gravitational lens time delays)
  • A new method to determine time delays, plus a case study of 0957+561 : (MNRAS 289, 933) (1997)
  • A determination of a time delay for B1600+434 : (ApJ, 544, 117) (2000)

• For who is interested in the use of stellar oscillations in determining their interior structure, here is some introductory reading. A rather more extensive source of information, but also more difficult to read is the collection of J. Christensen-Dalsgaard's Oscillation Lecture Notes
• Some lecture notes on turbulence.
• Some lecture notes on astrophysical fluid dynamics (pdf format ~9Mb), also available as gzipped ps format (~5Mb) Note that some figures are still missing and these lecture notes will be updated occasionally, latest update : 03-04-2004).

Miscellaneous :

helioseismology outreach

asteroseismology outreach