Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Dec 1993
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Annual Performance Report, 1 Jan. - 31 Dec. 1993 California Inst. of Tech., Pasadena. Div. of Geological and Planetary Sciences.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Acoustic Scattering, Atmospheric Turbulence, Convective Flow, Magnetic Fields, Solar Oscillations, Turbulent Flow, Astrophysics, Mach Number, Stochastic Processes
Scientific paper
Two papers on different aspects of the excitation and damping of solar oscillations were accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. The first paper evaluates the rate at which turbulent convection feeds energy into individual p-modes. It is shown that stochastic excitation by turbulent convection provides a satisfactory fit to the product of the mode energies and linewidths. A somewhat surprising conclusion is that entropy fluctuations are about an order of magnitude more significant than are fluctuations of the Reynolds stress in exciting p-modes. However, entropy fluctuations cannot excite f-modes. This may account for the relatively low energies of the f-modes compared to those of the p-modes. The second paper explores the role of scattering of acoustic modes by turbulent velocity fluctuations. Scattering of a mode is concentrated near the top of its acoustic cavity. Because the turbulence has low Mach number, scattering couples modes having similar frequencies. Its net effects are to increase the linewidths of all modes and to transfer energy from p-modes to f-modes. Scattering is likely to be the dominant source for the linewidths of p-modes. In particular, it may account for the unexpectedly large linewidths measured for low frequency modes. Copies of preprints of the two papers referred to above are attached. The remainder of the report is devoted to a description of unpublished results.
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