Helioseismic test of non-homologous solar radius changes with the 11-year activity cycle

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2007-02-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0702497v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 2 figures, ApJ Lett in press

Scientific paper

10.1086/515394

Recent models of variations of the Sun's structure with the 11-year activity cycle by Sofia et al (2005) predict strong non-homologous changes of the radius of subsurface layers, due to subsurface magnetic fields and field-modulated turbulence. According to their best model the changes of the surface radius may be 1000 times larger than those at the depth of 5 Mm. We use f-mode oscillation frequency data from the MDI instrument of Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) and measurements of the solar surface radius variations from SOHO and ground-based observatories during solar cycle 23 (1996-2005) to put constraints on the radius changes. The results show that the above model overestimates the change of the radius at the surface relative to the change at 5Mm.

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