Stochastic excitation of non-radial modes

DOI10.1051/0004-6361:20077775zbMATH Open1137.85303arXiv0710.1039OpenAlexW4293381378WikidataQ68671548 ScholiaQ68671548MaRDI QIDQ5457827FDOQ5457827

Authors: K. Belkacem, R. Samadi, M.-J. Goupil, M.-A. Dupret 

Publication date: 8 April 2008

Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Turbulent motions in stellar convection zones generate acoustic energy, part of which is then supplied to normal modes of the star. Their amplitudes result from a balance between the efficiencies of excitation and damping processes in the convection zones. We develop a formalism that provides the excitation rates of non-radial global modes excited by turbulent convection. As a first application, we estimate the impact of non-radial effects on excitation rates and amplitudes of high-angular-degree modes which are observed on the Sun. A model of stochastic excitation by turbulent convection has been developed to compute the excitation rates, and it has been successfully applied to solar radial modes (Samadi & Goupil 2001, Belkacem et al. 2006b). We generalize this approach to the case of non-radial global modes. This enables us to estimate the energy supplied to high-($ell$) acoustic modes. Qualitative arguments as well as numerical calculations are used to illustrate the results. We find that non-radial effects for $p$ modes are non-negligible: - for high-$n$ modes (i.e. typically $n>3$) and for high values of $ell$; the power supplied to the oscillations depends on the mode inertia. - for low-$n$ modes, independent of the value of $ell$, the excitation is dominated by the non-diagonal components of the Reynolds stress term. We carried out a numerical investigation of high-$ell$ $p$ modes and we find that the validity of the present formalism is limited to $ell<500$ due to the spatial separation of scale assumption. Thus, a model for very high-$ell$ $p$-mode excitation rates calls for further theoretical developments, however the formalism is valid for solar $g$ modes, which will be investigated in a paper in preparation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.1039

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zbMATH Keywords

convection-turbulence-Sun: oscillations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Galactic and stellar structure (85A15) Hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic problems in astronomy and astrophysics (85A30)

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