Supersonic Turbulent Stress and the Solar Neutrino Problem
Abstract
Some while ago (Prentice 1973a) I demonstrated that if the present Sun were to possess a small burnt out central core of mass 2-3% M ⊙ its neutrino flux would be a factor 10 or so smaller than that of conventional homogeneously evolved solar models. It was not, however, conclusively shown what conditions might lead to the formation of such a core or indeed whether a burnt out core could be attained after 4.7 × 109 yr. of nuclear evolution. In this connection Demarque et al. (1973) has considered the evolution of an initially inhomogeneous model consisting of a hydrogen free core surrounded by a homogeneous envelope.
- Publication:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
- Pub Date:
- September 1974
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1323358000013813
- Bibcode:
- 1974PASA....2..263P
- Keywords:
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- Astronomical Models;
- Neutrinos;
- Nuclear Fusion;
- Solar Corpuscular Radiation;
- Turbulence Effects;
- Abundance;
- Solar Flux;
- Stellar Evolution;
- Stellar Structure;
- Supersonic Flow;
- Solar Physics