The LOWL parameter datasets are ascii files and are stored with the 
following format:

Full listing (files starting with 'm') have the following
columns:

l n \nu amp FWHM back x sigma(\nu), ..., sigma(x)
a_1, a_2, ..., a_n, sigma(a_1), ..., sigma(a_n).

The abbreviations used are:

l: degree of mode
n: order of mode
\nu: Frequency of mode in micro Hz
amp: Mode amplitude. Units TBD
FWHM: Full width at half maximum power for the Lorenzian in micro Hz
back: Log of the background power in units TBD
x: something you don't want to know
a_i: a-coefficients in nHz. The polynomials used are those from Schou
   et al., ApJ, 433, 389 (1994). a_1 has had 31.7nHz added
sigma(something): The estimated standard deviation of something. 


>>>> NOTE: A standard deviation of 0 means that something has not been 
determined.

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