Waves in the lower solar atmosphere: the dawn of next-generation solar telescopes

DB Jess, S Jafarzadeh, PH Keys, M Stangalini… - Living Reviews in Solar …, 2023 - Springer
Waves and oscillations have been observed in the Sun's atmosphere for over half a century.
While such phenomena have readily been observed across the entire electromagnetic …

Colloquium: Unusual dynamics of convection in the Sun

J Schumacher, KR Sreenivasan - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2020 - APS
The Sun is our nearest star; it is also the most important star that determines life on Earth. A
large variety of phenomena observed on the Sun's surface, with potential impact on Earth, is …

A new generation of standard solar models

N Vinyoles, AM Serenelli, FL Villante… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We compute a new generation of standard solar models (SSMs) that includes recent
updates on some important nuclear reaction rates and a more consistent treatment of the …

Modules for experiments in stellar astrophysics (MESA): planets, oscillations, rotation, and massive stars

B Paxton, M Cantiello, P Arras, L Bildsten… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We substantially update the capabilities of the open source software package Modules for
Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA), and its one-dimensional stellar evolution …

Turbulent superstructures in Rayleigh-Bénard convection

A Pandey, JD Scheel, J Schumacher - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection displays a large-scale order in the form of rolls and
cells on lengths larger than the layer height once the fluctuations of temperature and velocity …

Updated and expanded OPAL equation-of-state tables: implications for helioseismology

FJ Rogers, A Nayfonov - The Astrophysical Journal, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
We are in the process of updating and extending the OPAL equation-of-state (EOS) and
opacity data to include low-mass stars. The EOS part of that effort now is complete, and the …

Solar models: Current epoch and time dependences, neutrinos, and helioseismological properties

JN Bahcall, MH Pinsonneault… - The Astrophysical …, 2001 - iopscience.iop.org
We calculate accurate solar models and report the detailed time dependences of important
solar quantities. We use helioseismology to constrain the luminosity evolution of the Sun …

Simulations of stellar convection with CO5BOLD

B Freytag, M Steffen, HG Ludwig… - Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
High-resolution images of the solar surface show a granulation pattern of hot rising and
cooler downward-sinking material–the top of the deep-reaching solar convection zone …

High-precision abundances of elements in solar twin stars-Trends with stellar age and elemental condensation temperature

PE Nissen - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2015 - aanda.org
Context. High-precision determinations of abundances of elements in the atmospheres of
the Sun and solar twin stars indicate that the Sun has an unusually low ratio between …

Tidal dissipation in evolving low-mass and solar-type stars with predictions for planetary orbital decay

AJ Barker - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We study tidal dissipation in stars with masses in the range 0.1–1.6 M⊙ throughout their
evolution, including turbulent effective viscosity acting on equilibrium tides and inertial …