Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Group photograph
- List of participants
- Preface
- Reviews
- 1 Equations of state in stellar structure and evolution
- 2 Equation of state of stellar plasmas
- 3 Statistical mechanics of quantum plasmas. Path integral formalism
- 4 Onsager-molecule approach to screening potentials in strongly coupled plasmas
- 5 Astrophysical consequences of the screening of nuclear reactions
- 6 Crystallization of dense binary ionic mixtures. Application to white dwarf cooling theory
- 7 Non crystallized regions of White dwarfs. Thermodynamics. Opacity. Turbulent convection
- 8 White dwarf crystallization
- 9 Gravitational collapse versus thermonuclear explosion of degenerate stellar cores
- 10 Neutron star crusts with magnetic fields
- 11 High pressure experiments for astrophysics
- 12 Equation of state of dense hydrogen and the plasma phase transition; A microscopic calculational model for complex fluids
- 13 The equation of state of fluid hydrogen at high density
- 14 A comparative study of hydrogen equations of state
- 15 Strongly coupled ionic mixtures and the H/He equation of state
- 16 White dwarf seismology: Influence of the constitutive physics on the period spectra
- 17 Helioseismology: the Sun as a strongly-constrained, weakly-coupled plasma
- 18 Transport processes in dense stellar plasmas
- 19 Cataclysmic variables: structure and evolution
- 20 Giant planet, brown dwarf, and low-mass star interiors
- 21 Searches for brown dwarfs
- 22 Jovian seismology
- Observational projects
- Posters
17 - Helioseismology: the Sun as a strongly-constrained, weakly-coupled plasma
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Group photograph
- List of participants
- Preface
- Reviews
- 1 Equations of state in stellar structure and evolution
- 2 Equation of state of stellar plasmas
- 3 Statistical mechanics of quantum plasmas. Path integral formalism
- 4 Onsager-molecule approach to screening potentials in strongly coupled plasmas
- 5 Astrophysical consequences of the screening of nuclear reactions
- 6 Crystallization of dense binary ionic mixtures. Application to white dwarf cooling theory
- 7 Non crystallized regions of White dwarfs. Thermodynamics. Opacity. Turbulent convection
- 8 White dwarf crystallization
- 9 Gravitational collapse versus thermonuclear explosion of degenerate stellar cores
- 10 Neutron star crusts with magnetic fields
- 11 High pressure experiments for astrophysics
- 12 Equation of state of dense hydrogen and the plasma phase transition; A microscopic calculational model for complex fluids
- 13 The equation of state of fluid hydrogen at high density
- 14 A comparative study of hydrogen equations of state
- 15 Strongly coupled ionic mixtures and the H/He equation of state
- 16 White dwarf seismology: Influence of the constitutive physics on the period spectra
- 17 Helioseismology: the Sun as a strongly-constrained, weakly-coupled plasma
- 18 Transport processes in dense stellar plasmas
- 19 Cataclysmic variables: structure and evolution
- 20 Giant planet, brown dwarf, and low-mass star interiors
- 21 Searches for brown dwarfs
- 22 Jovian seismology
- Observational projects
- Posters
Summary
Abstract
Accurate measurements of observed frequencies of solar oscillations are providing a wealth of data on the properties of the solar interior. The frequencies depend on the solar structure, and on the properties of the plasma in the Sun. Except in the very outer layers, the stratification of the convection zone is almost adiabatic. There, the sound-speed profile is governed principally by the specific entropy, the (homogenous) chemical composition and the equation of state. It is therefore essentially independent of the uncertainties in the radiative opacities. The sensitivity of the observed frequencies is such that it enables to distinguish rather subtle features of the equation of state. An example is the signature of the heavy elements in the equation of state. This opens the possibility to use the Sun as a laboratory for thermodynamic properties.
Les fréquences observées des oscillations solaires constituent une base de données extrêmement riche qui nous permet d'étudier les propriétés de l'intérieur du soleil. Les fréquences dépendent de la structure solaire et des propriétés locales du plasma (surtout de la vitesse du son). Sauf dans les couches très exterieures, la structure de la zone convective du soleil est essentiellement adiabatique. Le profil de la vitesse du son est done donné par l'entropie spécifique, la composition chimique (homogène) et l'équation d'état. L'opacité radiative ne joue pas de rôle. Grace à la grande précision des fréquences observées on arrive à distinguer des phénomènes assez subtiles dans l'équation d'état, comme la signature faible des élements lourds.
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- The Equation of State in AstrophysicsIAU Colloquium 147, pp. 368 - 393Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994
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