Turbulent eddy-time-correlation in the solar convective zone

Details Turbulent eddy-time-correlation in the solar convective zone Turbulent eddy-time-correlation in the solar convective zone

2010-10-13

arxiv.org/abs/1010.2682v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

5 pages, 2 figures, accepted in A&A

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Theoretical modeling of the driving processes of solar-like oscillations is a powerful way of understanding the properties of the convective zones of solar-type stars. In this framework, the description of the temporal correlation between turbulent eddies is an essential ingredient to model mode amplitudes. However, there is a debate between a Gaussian or Lorentzian description of the eddy-time correlation function (Samadi et al. 2003, Chaplin et al. 2005). Indeed, a Gaussian description reproduces the low-frequency shape of the mode amplitude for the Sun, but is unsatisfactory from a theoretical point of view (Houdek, 2009) and leads to other disagreements with observations (Samadi et al., 2007). These are solved by using a Lorentzian description, but there the low-frequency shape of the solar observations is not correctly reproduced. We reconcile the two descriptions by adopting the sweeping approximation, which consists in assuming that the eddy-time-correlation function is dominated by the advection of eddies, in the inertial range, by energy-bearing eddies. Using a Lorentzian function together with a cut-off frequency derived from the sweeping assumption allows us to reproduce the low-frequency shape of the observations. This result also constitutes a validation of the sweeping assumption for highly turbulent flows as in the solar case.

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