A Distant Mirror: Solar Oscillations Observed on Neptune by the Kepler K2 Mission
Starting in 2014 December, Kepler K 2 observed Neptune continuously for 49 days at a 1 minute cadence. The goals consisted of studying its atmospheric dynamics, detecting its global acoustic oscillations, and those of the Sun, which we report on here. We present the first indirect detection of solar oscillations in intensity measurements. Beyond
Gaulme, P. et al.
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