On the seismic age and heavy-element abundance of the Sun

Details On the seismic age and heavy-element abundance of the Sun On the seismic age and heavy-element abundance of the Sun

2011-08-03

arxiv.org/abs/1108.0802v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

16 pages, 11 figures, 5 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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We estimate the main-sequence age and heavy-element abundance of the Sun by means of an asteroseismic calibration of theoretical solar models using only low-degree acoustic modes from the BiSON. The method can therefore be applied also to other solar-type stars, such as those observed by the NASA satellite Kepler and the planned ground-based Danish-led SONG network. The age, 4.60+/-0.04 Gy, obtained with this new seismic method, is similar to, although somewhat greater than, today's commonly adopted values, and the surface heavy-element abundance by mass, Zs=0.0142+/-0.0005, lies between the values quoted recently by Asplund et al. (2009) and by Caffau et al. (2009). We stress that our best-fitting model is not a seismic model, but a theoretically evolved model of the Sun constructed with `standard' physics and calibrated against helioseismic data.

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