Probing the Structure and Dynamics of the Solar Core with Gravity Modes
Whitepaper #235 in the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033. Main topics: basic research. Additional topics: solar physics.
by John Leibacher, Thierry Appourchaux, Gaël Buldgen, Rafael A. García, Laurent Gizon, and Philip Scherrer
Published onJul 31, 2023
Probing the Structure and Dynamics of the Solar Core with Gravity Modes
The rotation and mixing of the core of the Sun, which control solar evolution and the present-day Sun, remain poorly constrained in spite of their crucial importance. The detection of a few gravity (g)-modes should enable the helioseismic probing of the solar core much like that already achieved for the outer radiative zone and convection zone with pressure (p)-modes.
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