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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 August 2017
The task of interpreting p-mode spectra is complicated by the presence of a very large number of oscillation modes, each of which may appear (because of aliasing) in the power spectra corresponding to several values of l and m. Identifying peaks in a power spectrum with particular modes in an interactive fashion thus quickly becomes impractical. Here I describe an automated method for doing this identification. The method is based on an application of Bayes' theorem, which provides a simple way to use prior knowledge about the oscillation spectrum. The method takes as input the observed power spectra, and a model of the amplitudes and frequencies one expects to see.