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Paper: An Approach to the Exact Classification of Adiabatic Eigenmodes of Stars
Volume: 462, Progress in Solar/Stellar Physics with Helio- and Asteroseismology
Page: 412
Authors: Takata, M.
Abstract: The conventional classification of stellar eigenmodes into p-modes, g-modes, and f-modes has not been justified with mathematical completeness yet. Here, we take an approach which is adopted in the field of (geo)seismology. The key point is to transform the governing system of differential equations into an alternative system in which the dependent variables are the wedge products of the standard variables (perturbed physical quantities). Based on the new system and with an assumption that any two different eigenmodes with the same spherical degree do not have the same eigenfrequency, we construct a scheme to define a unique index to each eigenmode, which allows us to distinguish among the three kinds of eigenmodes unambiguously.
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