Can we detect convection in the Sun?
Abstract
We investigate the possibility of detecting deep convection in the Sun by computing travel-time shifts induced by convective flows interacting with propagating waves. The convection zone is modeled using a velocity profile taken from an Anelastic convection simulation. We present results obtained from a ray calculation of travel-time shifts. We compare these results with a full 3D calculation of the wave-flow interaction.
- Publication:
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Convection in Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- May 2007
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2007IAUS..239..364H
- Keywords:
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- Waves;
- convection;
- Sun: helioseismology;
- Sun: oscillations