Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-11-25
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
26 pages, 7 figures, accepted by MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03243.x
In the solar convection zone acoustic waves are scattered by turbulent sound speed fluctuations. In this paper the scattering of waves by convective cells is treated using Rytov's technique. Particular care is taken to include diffraction effects which are important especially for high-degree modes that are confined to the surface layers of the Sun. The scattering leads to damping of the waves and causes a phase shift. Damping manifests itself in the width of the spectral peak of p-mode eigenfrequencies. The contribution of scattering to the line widths is estimated and the sensitivity of the results on the assumed spectrum of the turbulence is studied. Finally the theoretical predictions are compared with recently measured line widths of high-degree modes.
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