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The excitation rate P of solar p-modes is computed with a model of stochastic excitation which involves constraints on the averaged properties of the solar turbulence. These constraints are obtained from a 3D simulation. Resulting values for P are found ∼ 4.5 times larger than when the calculation assumes properties of turbulent convection which are derived from an 1D solar model based on Gough (1977)'s formulation of the mixing-length theory (GMLT). This difference is mainly due to the assumed values for the mean anisotropy of the velocity field in each case.Calculations based on 3D constraints bring the P maximum closer to the observational one.We also compute P for several models of intermediate mass stars (1 ≲ M ≲ 2 M⊙).Differences in the values of P max between models computed with the classical mixing-length theory and GMLT models are found large enough for main sequence stars to suggest that measurements of P in this mass range will be able to discriminate between different models of turbulent convection.
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Samadi, R., Goupil, M., Lebreton, Y. et al. Seismic Diagnostics on Stellar Convection Treatment from Oscillation Amplitudes of p-modes. Astrophysics and Space Science 284, 221–224 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023235502870
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