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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Mazumdar, A.
• Michel, E.
• Antia, H. M.
• Deheuvels, S.

Titel

Seismic detection of acoustic sharp features in the CoRoT target HD 49933

Ist Teil von

• Astronomy and astrophysics (Berlin), 2012-04, Vol.540, p.A31

Ort / Verlag

Les Ulis: EDP Sciences

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The technique of determining the acoustic location of layers of sharp changes in the sound speed inside a star from the oscillatory signal in its frequencies is applied to a solar-type star, the CoRoT target, HD 49933. We are able to determine the acoustic depth of the second helium ionisation zone of HD 49933 to be 794-68+55 s. The acoustic depth of the base of the convective zone is found to be 1855-412+173 s where the large error bars reflect the ambiguity in the result, which is difficult to determine with present precision on the frequencies because of the intrinsically weak nature of the signal. The positions of both these layers are consistent with those in a representative stellar model of HD 49933.