Surface convection: from the Sun to red giant stars

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2011-12-06

arxiv.org/abs/1112.1381v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

In the proceedings of the French Astronomical Society meeting SF2A 2011

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We check how the change in surface conditions between the Sun and red giant branch stars changes the characteristic surface convection length scale to be used in models. We investigate the question in the case of the mixing length theory and of the phenomenology of full spectrum of turbulence. For the observational part, we rely on independent measurements of effective temperatures and interferometric radii of nearby red giants. We find that the local red giant branch cannot be explained taking into account the solar calibrated convective length scale.

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