The Phoebus Home Page

The rationale

 
• Why Phoebus?
• Phoebus is the god of light.  He will hopefully give us enough power to see inside the Sun
• Phoebus is also the god of the Sun, in some other mythologies.
• Last and most significant, Gaston Phoebus, count of Foix, wrote a book about 'Hunting'; very appropriate indeed for our purpose.  Some interesting links coming from the Bibliotheque Nationale depict these 'hunting' strategies:
• Gaston Phoebus teaching how to sound the hunting horn (g modes beware!)
• Extract from "The Book of hunt: Wolf trap" (understands g-mode trapping by us...or by the Sun?)
If you do not like the iconography, I will oblige and remove the names...but please do suggest something else then!
• Goal of the group:
• To discover the g modes for a better understanding of the solar core structure

• Composition of the group as of January 1998:
• Bo Andersen (VIRGO/SPM)
• Thierry Appourchaux (VIRGO/LOI, secretary)
• William Chaplin (BiSON)
• Yvonne Elsworth (BiSON)
• Wolfgang Finsterle (VIRGO/PMO6)
• Claus Frohlich (VIRGO/PMO6)
• Douglas Gough (Theoretical support)
• Todd Hoeksema (SOI/MDI)
• George Isaak (BiSON)
• Janine Provost (Theoretical support)
• Phil Scherrer (SOI/MDI)
• Takashi Sekii (Theoretical support)
• Thierry Toutain (VIRGO/SPM, SOI/MDI)
• Alexander Kosovichev (SOI/MDI)

 
• Means:
• Data exchange: the members of the group agree to exchange freely their data to achieve the goal.  The data are placed on an ftp account in Norway.  E-mail me if you need the password.
• Bi-monhtly teleconferences:  Each member of the group are called at 5:30 PM (Greenwich time) every 2 weeks on Wenesdays starting on January 14, 1998.  The teleconf will help increasing interaction between the members of the group, preparing the data for a timely workshop and for discussing other important issues.
• The agenda and minutes of the teleconfs of 99 can be found here.
• The agenda and minutes of the teleconfs of 98 can be found here.
• 2nd workshop: a real working session took place at ESTEC in the September-October '98 time frame.  The set-up was similar be to that of the 1st workshop.  Now we even have a new aide-memoire to download!
• Publications: now you can have a look at what we have achieved!

Last updated by Thierry Appourchaux on May 27, 1999