Bibcode
Montalbán, J.; Schatzman, E.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.351, p.347-358 (1999)
Advertised on:
11
1999
Journal
Citations
2
Refereed citations
2
Description
The neutrino production rate strongly depends on the temperature, and a
small variation of chemical composition in the central regions can imply
a large variation of neutrino flux. For some values of their frequencies
and wavenumbers, the internal waves e xcited at the bottom of the solar
convective zone are able to propagate until the central region of the
star, producing a macroscopic diffusive process (Press 1981, Schatzman
& Montalbán 1995). In this paper we analyse the effect of
this mixing mechani sm on the neutrino flux production. For that
purpose, we introduce some improvements in the treatment of
non-adiabatic internal waves in the central region of the Sun. We use
the amplitude of these oscillations to determine the macroscopic
diffusion coefficient linked to non-adiabatic propagation of gravity
waves. We analyse the chemical mixing in the solar center and its effect
on the decrease of solar neutrino production. We also study how the
diffusion coefficient depends on the source function of internal waves,
and we show that the amplitude of the diffusion coefficient in the
internal regions is strongly affected by the characteristics of the
source function at the boundary convective/stratified regimes.