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The effect of mechanical waves on empirical solar models

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Empirical solar models contain the effect of heating due to radiative energy loss from acoustic waves. We estimate here the temperature difference between the radiative equilibrium model and the empirical model. At optical depth τ5000 = 0.1 this difference is small, but near the temperature minimum (τ5000 = 10−4) it reaches between 53 and 83 K. The temperature difference between the equator and the poles caused by a hypothetical difference in the heating is estimated.

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  1. Astronomisches Institut der Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

    Peter Ulmschneider

  2. Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A.

    Wolfgang Kalkofen

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Ulmschneider, P., Kalkofen, W. The effect of mechanical waves on empirical solar models. Sol Phys 28, 3–7 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00152904

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