Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-10-25
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Contributed talk presented at the IAU GA 2009, JD 10, to be published in Memorie della SAIt, Vol. 80 n.3
Scientific paper
The solar abundances have undergone a major downward revision in the last decade, reputedly as a result of employing 3D hydrodynamical simulations to model the inhomogeneous structure of the solar photosphere. The very low oxygen abundance advocated by Asplund et al. (2004), A(O)=8.66, together with the downward revision of the carbon and nitrogen abundances, has created serious problems for solar models to explain the helioseismic measurements. In an effort to contribute to the dispute we have re-derived photospheric abundances of several elements independently of previous analysis. We applied a state-of-the art 3D (CO5BOLD) hydrodynamical simulation of the solar granulation as well as different 1D model atmospheres for the line by line spectroscopic abundance determinations. The analysis is based on both standard disc-centre and disc-integrated spectral atlases; for oxygen we acquired in addition spectra at different heliocentric angles. The derived abundances are the result of equivalent width and/or line profile fitting of the available atomic lines. We discuss the different granulation effects on solar abundances and compare our results with previous investigations. According to our investigations hydrodynamical models are important in the solar abundance determination, but are not responsible for the recent downward revision in the literature of the solar metallicity.
Caffau Elisabetta
Ludwig Hans Günter
Steffen Matthias
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