Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1998-09-28
Astron.Astrophys. 343 (1999) 990
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
8 pages + 4 ps figures included, LaTeX file with l-aa.sty, submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics
Scientific paper
The problem of measuring the solar age by means of helioseismology hasbeen recently revisited by Guenther & Demarque (1997) and by Weiss & Schlattl (1998). Different best values for $t_{\rm seis}$ and different assessment of the uncertainty resulted from these two works. We show that depending on the way seismic data are used, one may obtain the value $t_{\rm seis}\approx 4.6$ Gy, close to the age of the oldest meteorites, $t_{\rm met}=4.57$ Gy, like in the first paper, or above 5 Gy like in the second paper. The discrepancy in the seismic estimates of the solar age may be eliminated by assuming higher than the standard metal abundance and/or an upward revision of the opacities in the solar radiative interior.We argue that the most accurate and robust seismic measure of the solar age are the small frequency separations, $D_{\ell,n}=\nu_{l,n}-\nu_{\ell+1,n-1}$, for spherical harmonic degrees $\ell=0,2$ and radial orders $n\gg\ell$.The seismic age inferred by minimization of the sum of squared differences between the model and the solar small separations is $t_{\rm seis}=4.66\pm0.11$, a number consistent with meteoritic data.Our analysis supports earlier suggestions of using small frequency separations as stellar age indicators.
Dziembowski Wojciech A.
Fiorentini Gianni
Ricci Barbara
Sienkiewicz Ryszard
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