Issue |
A&A
Volume 469, Number 3, July III 2007
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Page(s) | 1145 - 1149 | |
Section | The Sun | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20077212 | |
Published online | 02 May 2007 |
Sensitivity of low degree oscillations to the change in solar abundances
1
Département Cassiopée, UMR CNRS 6202, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, BP 4229, 06304 Nice Cedex 4, France e-mail: zaatri@obs-nice.fr
2
Centre de Recherche en Astronomie, Astrophysique et Géophysique, BP 63, Route de l'Observatoire, Bouzaréah, 16340, Alger, Algérie
Received:
31
January
2007
Accepted:
11
April
2007
Context.The most recent determination of the solar chemical composition, using a time-dependent, 3D hydrodynamical model of the solar atmosphere, exhibits a significant decrease of C, N, O abundances compared to their previous values. Solar models that use these new abundances are not consistent with helioseismological determinations of the sound speed profile, the surface helium abundance and the convection zone depth.
Aims.We investigate the effect of changes of solar abundances on low degree p-mode and g-mode characteristics which are strong constraints of the solar core. We consider particularly the increase of neon abundance in the new solar mixture in order to reduce the discrepancy between models using new abundances and helioseismology.
Methods.The observational determinations of solar frequencies from the GOLF instrument are used to test solar models computed with different chemical compositions. We consider in particular the normalized small frequency spacings in the low degree p-mode frequency range.
Results.Low-degree small frequency spacings are very sensitive to changes in the heavy-element abundances, notably neon. We show that by considering all the seismic constraints, including the small frequency spacings, a rather large increase of neon abundance by about (0.5±0.05) dex can be a good solution to the discrepancy between solar models that use new abundances and low degree helioseismology, subject to adjusting slightly the solar age and the highest abundances. We also show that the change in solar abundances, notably neon, considerably affects g-mode frequencies, with relative frequency differences between the old and the new models higher than 1.5%.
Key words: Sun: helioseismology / Sun: abundances / Sun: interior
© ESO, 2007
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