Calibration of the Thickness of the Solar Tachocline

Details Calibration of the Thickness of the Solar Tachocline Calibration of the Thickness of the Solar Tachocline

May 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999apj...516..475e&link_type=abstract

The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 516, Issue 1, pp. 475-481.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

58

Sun: Interior, Sun: Oscillations

Scientific paper

Material circulation in the solar tachocline mixes the tachocline material with the convection zone, which causes the sound speed in and immediately beneath the tachocline to exceed what one would expect from current standard solar models. Calibration against a helioseismic determination of the sound speed from SOI/MDI data of a sequence of solar models having mixed layers of different thicknesses yields a value of 0.019 R_solar for the mean tachocline thickness Delta, with a formal standard error of about 5%. This value for Delta is somewhat smaller than previous estimates based on measuring shear in the seismically inferred angular velocity, and it has important implications concerning our understanding of the magnetohydrodynamics of the tachocline.

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