Are Standard Solar Models Reliable?
Astrophysics
2009-10-28 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
The sound speeds of solar models that include element diffusion agree with helioseismological measurements to a rms discrepancy of better than 0.2% throughout almost the entire sun. Models that do not include diffusion, or in which the interior of the sun is assumed to be significantly mixed, are effectively ruled out by helioseismology. Standard solar models predict the measured properties of the sun more accurately than is required for applications involving solar neutrinos.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9610250,
title = {Are Standard Solar Models Reliable?},
author = {John N. Bahcall and M. H. Pinsonneault and Sarbani Basu and J. Christensen-Dalsgaard},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9610250},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, latex file. Revised numbers for Table 1. To appear in Physical Review Letters