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Surface effects in solar-like oscillators

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Ball,  Warrick H.
Department Solar and Stellar Interiors, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Max Planck Society;

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Ball, W. H. (2017). Surface effects in solar-like oscillators. In EPJ Web of Conferences: Seismology of the Sun and the Distant Stars 2016 – Using Today’s Successes to Prepare the Future. doi:10.1051/epjconf/201716002001.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0001-41A3-D
Abstract
Inaccurate modelling of the near-surface layers of solar models causes a systematic difference between modelled and observed solar mode frequencies. This difference—known as the “surface effect” or “surface term”—presumably also exists in other solar-like oscillators and must somehow be corrected to accurately relate mode frequencies to stellar model parameters. After briefly describing the various potential causes of surface effects, I will review recent progress along two different lines. First, various methods have been proposed for removing the surface effect from the mode frequencies and thereby fitting stellar models without the disproportionate influence of the inaccurate near-surface layers. Second, three-dimensional radiation hydrodynamics simulations are now being used to replace the near-surface layers of stellar models across a range of spectral types, leading to predictions of how some components of the surface effect vary between stars. Finally, I shall briefly discuss the future of the problem in terms of both modelling and observation.