Incompressible stellar surface mode

ID: incompressible-stellar-surface-mode

Incompressible stellar surface mode by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-06
An incompressible stellar surface mode has vanishing Lagrangian volume perturbation. In a harmonic fixed potential, a displacement generated by a solid spherical harmonic has a frequency fixed by its angular degree.

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