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NAM 2021 Plenary
Prof Yvonne Elsworth - 2020 RAS Gold Medal Awardee
The benefits of a slow steady heart beat
When I first moved to Birmingham in the mid-1980s the field of Helioseismology (the study of the natural resonances of the Sun) was in its infancy. The data were initially contested by some who believed that the claim to measure stellar radial velocities in the cm/sec when the norm was km/sec just could not be right. Move forward to current times to discover that we (and others) have used these data to gain huge understanding of the interior of the Sun and furthermore have extended the investigations to many tens of thousands of stars that are like the current Sun or like the Sun will be in the distant future. As with all advances, progress brings new challenges, new questions. That is the delight of science......and all this follows from the regular beat of the natural oscillations of stars.
I will outline some of the aspects of the projects with which I have been involved and for which I was awarded the 2020 Gold Medal by the Royal Astronomical Society.
NAM 2021 Plenary
Prof Yvonne Elsworth - 2020 RAS Gold Medal Awardee
The benefits of a slow steady heart beat
When I first moved to Birmingham in the mid-1980s the field of Helioseismology (the study of the natural resonances of the Sun) was in its infancy. The data were initially contested by some who believed that the claim to measure stellar radial velocities in the cm/sec when the norm was km/sec just could not be right. Move forward to current times to discover that we (and others) have used these data to gain huge understanding of the interior of the Sun and furthermore have extended the investigations to many tens of thousands of stars that are like the current Sun or like the Sun will be in the distant future. As with all advances, progress brings new challenges, new questions. That is the delight of science......and all this follows from the regular beat of the natural oscillations of stars.
I will outline some of the aspects of the projects with which I have been involved and for which I was awarded the 2020 Gold Medal by the Royal Astronomical Society.
