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The size of the rotational splitting recently observed (Claverie et al., 1981) is correlated with the 12.2d variation in the measurements of solar oblateness observed by Dicke (1976) and implies a convection zone of depth of 0.1 R ⊙. The near equality of amplitudes of global velocity oscillations (Claverie et al., 1981) of the various m components of the l = 1 and l = 2 modes as seen from the Earth viewing the Sun nearly along the equator is unexpected for pure rotational splitting. It is suggested that a magnetic perturbation is present and an oblique asymmetric magnetic rotator with magnetic fields of a few million gauss is responsible. A more detailed account was submitted to Nature.
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Claverie, A., Isaak, G. R., McLeod, C. P., van der Raay, H. B., and Roca Cortes, T.: 1981, Nature 292, 443.
Dicke, R. H.: Solar Phys. 47, 475.
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Proceedings of the 66th IAU Colloquium: Problems in Solar and Stellar Oscillations, held at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, U.S.S.R., 1–5 September, 1981.
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Isaak, G.R. Is there an oblique magnetic rotator inside the Sun?. Sol Phys 82, 235 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00145565
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00145565