Effect of local treatments of convection upon the solar pmode excitation rates.pdfVIP

1 EFFECT OF LOCAL TREATMENTS OF CONVECTION UPON THE SOLAR P-MODE EXCITATION RATES ´ 1 1 1 1 2 Reza Samadi , M.J. Goupil , Y. Lebreton , C. Van’t Veer , and F. Kupka 1Observatoire de Paris, 5 place J. Janssen, 92195 Meudon, France 2Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics, Karl-Schwarzschild Str. 1, 85741 Garching 4 0 0 2 ABSTRACT 1. INTRODUCTION p e S We compute, for several solar models, the rates P at We study the implication of two different local treatments which the solar radial p modes are expected to be ex- of convection on the calculation of the rates P at which 4 cited. The solar models are computed with two differ- solar p modes are excited by turbulent convection. For 1 ent local treatments of convection : the classical mixing- this purpose, solar models are built with two different 1 length theory (MLT hereafter) and Canuto et al. (1996, local treatments of convection : the classical MLT and v CGM hereafter)’s formulation. Canuto et al. (1996)’s formulation (Sect. 3). 4 2 For one set of solar models (EMLT and ECGM models), For a first set of models (EMLT and ECGM models), the 3 the atmosphere is gray and assumes Eddington’s approx- atmosphere is gray and assumes Eddington’s approxima- 9 imation. The models only assume one mixing-length