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Can we detect convection in the Sun?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2006

Shravan M. Hanasoge ,
T. L. Duvall Jr. ,
M. L. Derosa  and
M. S. Miesch
Shravan M. Hanasoge
Affiliation:
W. W. Hansen Experimental Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA email: shravan@stanford.edu
T. L. Duvall Jr.
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Solar and Space Physics, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
M. L. Derosa
Affiliation:
Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
M. S. Miesch
Affiliation:
HAO, NCAR, Boulder, CO 80307, USA
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Abstract

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We investigate the possibility of detecting deep convection in the Sun by computing travel-time shifts induced by convective flows interacting with propagating waves. The convection zone is modeled using a velocity profile taken from an Anelastic convection simulation. We present results obtained from a ray calculation of travel-time shifts. We compare these results with a full 3D calculation of the wave-flow interaction.

Keywords

WavesconvectionSun: helioseismologySun: oscillations
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 2 , Symposium S239: Convection in Astrophysics , August 2006 , pp. 364 - 369
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2007

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