Seismological tests of standard solar models calculated with new opacities

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Helioseismology, Opacity, Stellar Evolution, Stellar Models, Abundance, Heavy Elements, Helium, Magnetohydrodynamics, Solar Interior

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The paper presents calculations of models of the sun adopting opacity data of Iglesias and Rogers (1991) for three heavy element mixtures. Calculations were made with a standard stellar evolution code ignoring effects of gravitational settling and the convective overshooting. Using nearly 2300 measured frequencies of solar p-modes, corrections to the sound speed and density distribution in these models were determined. The corrections were found to be significantly smaller than those in models calculated with earlier opacities. The model calculated with the Anders and Grevesse (1989) mixture of heavy elements shows a remarkable agreement with the helioseismic data. There is, however, a contradiction between this consistency and a sizable correction to the surface helium abundance, Delta Y about -0.04. It is argued that this large value may be a spurious result caused by inadequacies in the MHD thermodynamics used in the models.

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