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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 481, Issue 1, Pages L35-L39Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/sly152
Keywords
stars: atmospheres; stars: interiors; Sun: evolution; Sun: helioseismology
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- Danish National Research Foundation [DNRF106]
- Villum Fonden [10118]
- Max-Planck-Institut fur Astrophysik
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Standard 1D stellar evolution models do not correctly reproduce the structure of the outermost layers of stars with convective envelopes. This has been a long-standing problem in stellar modelling affecting both the predicted evolutionary paths and the attributed oscillation frequencies, and indirectly biasing numerous quantities derived from stellar evolution calculations. We present a novel method that mostly eliminates these structural defects by appending mean 3D simulations of stellar envelopes. In contrast to previous attempts, we impose the complete structure derived from 3D simulations at each time-step during the entire evolution. For this purpose, we interpolate in grids of pre-computed 3D simulations and use the resulting structure as boundary conditions, in order to solve the stellar structure equations for the 1D interior at each time-step. Our method provides a continuous transition in many quantities from the interior to the imposed interpolated 3D surface layers. We present a solar calibration model and show that the obtained structure of the surface layers reliably mimics that of the underlying 3D simulations for the present Sun. Moreover, we perform a helioseismic analysis, showing that our method mostly eliminates the structural contribution to the discrepancy between model frequencies and observed p-mode frequencies.
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