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Helioseismological Implications of Recent Solar Abundance Determinations
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We show that standard solar models are in good agreement with the helioseismologically determined sound speed and density as a function of solar radius, the depth of the convective zone, and the surface helium abundance, as long as those models do not incorporate the most recent heavy-element abundance determinations. However, sophisticated new analyses of the solar atmosphere infer lower abundances of the lighter metals (like C, N, O, Ne, and Ar) than the previously widely used surface abundances. We show that solar models that include the lower heavy-element abundances disagree with the solar profiles of sound speed and density as well as the depth of the convective zone and the helium abundance. The disagreements for models with the new abundances range from factors of several to many times the quoted uncertainties in the helioseismological measurements. The disagreements are at temperatures that are too low to affect significantly solar neutrino emission. If errors in the calculated OPAL opacities are solely responsible for the disagreements, then the corrections in the opacity must extend from 2 × 10 6 K ( R = 0.7 R ☉ ) to 5 × 10 6 K ( R = 0.4 R ☉ ), with opacity increases of the order of 10%.
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- Authors
- Bahcall, J. N., Basu, S., Pinsonneault, M., & Serenelli, A. M.
- Venue
- The Astrophysical Journal
- Publisher
- American Astronomical Society
- Published
- 2005-01-10
- Volume
- 618
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 1049-1056
- ISSN
- 0004-637X (ISSN-L)
- 1538-4357
- OpenAlex
- W2071289028
- Cited by
- 305
- References
- 31
- FWCI
- 18.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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