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Progress in Global Helioseismology: A New Light on the Solar Modeling Problem and Its Implications for Solar-Like Stars
Buldgen, Gaël; Salmon, Sébastien; Noels-Grötsch, Arlette
2019In Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 6, p. 42
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Abstract :
[en] Since the first observations of solar oscillations in 1962, helioseismology has probably been one of the most successful fields of astrophysics. Data of unprecedented quality were obtained through the implementation of networks of ground-based observatories such as the GONG project or the BiSON network, coupled with space-based telescopes such as SOHO, Solar Orbiter and SDO missions. Besides the improvement of observational data, solar seismologists developed sophisticated techniques to infer the internal structure of the Sun from its eigenfrequencies. These methods, then already extensively used in the field of Geophysics, are called inversion techniques. They allowed to precisely determine the position of the solar convective envelope, the helium abundance in this region and the internal radial profiles of given thermodynamic quantities. Back in 1990s these comparisons showed a very high agreement between solar models and the Sun. However, the downward revision of the CNO surface abundances in the Sun in 2005, confirmed in 2009, induced a drastic reduction of this agreement leading to the so-called solar modelling problem. More than ten years later, in the era of the space-based photometry missions which have established asteroseismology of solar-like stars as a standard approach to obtain their masses, radii and ages, the solar modelling problem still awaits a solution. In this paper, we will present the results of new helioseismic inversions, discuss the current uncertainties of solar models as well as some possible solutions to the solar modelling problem. We will show how helioseismology can help us grasp what is amiss in our solar models. We will also show that, far from being an argument about details of solar models, the solar problem has significant implications for seismology of solar-like stars, on the main sequence and beyond, impacting asteroseismology as a whole as well as the fields requiring precise and accurate knowledge of stellar masses, radii and ages, such as Galactic archaeology and exoplanetology.
Research center :
STAR - Space sciences, Technologies and Astrophysics Research - ULiège
Disciplines :
Space science, astronomy & astrophysics
Author, co-author :
Buldgen, Gaël ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Astrophysique stellaire théorique et astérosismologie
Salmon, Sébastien ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Astrophysique stellaire théorique et astérosismologie
Noels-Grötsch, Arlette ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO)
Language :
English
Title :
Progress in Global Helioseismology: A New Light on the Solar Modeling Problem and Its Implications for Solar-Like Stars
Publication date :
02 July 2019
Journal title :
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
eISSN :
2296-987X
Publisher :
Frontiers Research Foundation, Lausanne, Switzerland
Volume :
6
Pages :
42
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Name of the research project :
ERC ASTEROCHRONOMETRY, G.A. n.772293; SNCF - project number 200020-172505; ARC grant for Concerted Research Actions
Funders :
CER - Conseil Européen de la Recherche [BE]
SNSF - Swiss National Science Foundation [CH]
FWB - Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles [BE]
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