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2 - Learning physics from the stars: It's all in the coefficients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2013

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Steven D. Kawaler
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Pere L. Pallé  and
César Esteban
Steven D. Kawaler
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Iowa State University
Pere L. Pallé
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife
César Esteban
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife
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Asteroseismology , pp. 32 - 59
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2014

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