New Solar Opacities, Abundances, Helioseismology, and Neutrino Fluxes
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- 31 January 2005
- journal article
- Published by American Astronomical Society in The Astrophysical Journal
- Vol. 621 (1) , L85-L88
- https://doi.org/10.1086/428929
Abstract
We construct solar models with the newly calculated radiative opacities from the Opacity Project (OP) and recently determined (lower) heavy element abundances. We compare results from the new models with predictions of a series of models that use OPAL radiative opacities, older determinations of the surface heavy element abundances, and refinements of nuclear reaction rates. For all the variations we consider, solar models that are constructed with the newer and lower heavy element abundances advocated by Asplund et al. (2005) disagree by much more than the estimated measuring errors with helioseismological determinations of the depth of the solar convective zone, the surface helium composition, the internal sound speeds, and the density profile. Using the new OP radiative opacities, the ratio of the 8B neutrino flux calculated with the older and larger heavy element abundances (or with the newer and lower heavy element abundances) to the total neutrino flux measured by the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory is 1.09 (0.87) with a 9% experimental uncertainty and a 16% theoretical uncertainty, 1 sigma errors.Comment: ApJ Letters (in press), added 3 references, detailed numerical solar models and distributions of neutrino fluxes available at http://www.sns.ias.edu/~jnb (models go back to 1982Keywords
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