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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Buldgen, Gael
• Salmon, Sebastien
• Noels, A.
• Scuflaire, R.
• Reese, D. R.
• Dupret, M-A.
• Colgan, James Patrick
• Fontes, Christopher John
• Eggenberger, Patrick
• Hakel, Peter
• Kilcrease, David Parker
• Turck-Chieze, Sylvaine

Titel

Seismic inversion of the solar entropy: setting a cat among the pigeons

Ist Teil von

• Astronomy and astrophysics (Berlin), 2017-11, Vol.607

Ort / Verlag

United States: EDP Sciences

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The Sun is the most constrained and well-studied of all stars. As a consequence, the physical ingredients entering solar models are used as a reference to study all other stars observed in the Universe. However, our understanding of the solar structure is still imperfect, as illustrated by the current debate on the heavy element abundances in the Sun. Aims. We wish to provide additional information on the solar structure by carrying out structural inversions of a new physical quantity, a proxy of the entropy of the solar plasma which properties are very sensitive to the temperature gradient below the convective zone. Methods. We use new structural kernels to carry out direct inversions of an entropy proxy of the solar plasma and compare the solar structure to various standard solar models built using various opacity tables and chemical abundances. We also link our results to classical tests commonly found in the literature. Results. Our analysis allows us to probe more efficiently the uncertain regions of the solar models, just below the convective zone, paving the way for new in-depth analyses of the Sun taking into account additional physical uncertainties of solar models beyond the specific question of chemical abundances.