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Structure of the solar photosphere studied from the radiation hydrodynamics code ANTARES
- Source :
- Astrophysics and Space Science
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- The ANTARES radiation hydrodynamics code is capable of simulating the solar granulation in detail unequaled by direct observation. We introduce a state-of-the-art numerical tool to the solar physics community and demonstrate its applicability to model the solar granulation. The code is based on the weighted essentially non-oscillatory finite volume method and by its implementation of local mesh refinement is also capable of simulating turbulent fluids. While the ANTARES code already provides promising insights into small-scale dynamical processes occurring in the quiet-Sun photosphere, it will soon be capable of modeling the latter in the scope of radiation magnetohydrodynamics. In this first preliminary study we focus on the vertical photospheric stratification by examining a 3-D model photosphere with an evolution time much larger than the dynamical timescales of the solar granulation and of particular large horizontal extent corresponding to $25\!" \!\! \times \, 25\!"$ on the solar surface to smooth out horizontal spatial inhomogeneities separately for up- and downflows. The highly resolved Cartesian grid thereby covers $\sim 4~\mathrm{Mm}$ of the upper convection zone and the adjacent photosphere. Correlation analysis, both local and two-point, provides a suitable means to probe the photospheric structure and thereby to identify several layers of characteristic dynamics: The thermal convection zone is found to reach some ten kilometers above the solar surface, while convectively overshooting gas penetrates even higher into the low photosphere. An $\approx 145\,\mathrm{km}$ wide transition layer separates the convective from the oscillatory layers in the higher photosphere.<br />Accepted for publication in Astrophysics and Space Science; 18 pages, 12 figures, 2 tables; typos corrected
- Subjects :
- Convection
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Convective heat transfer
Methods: radiation hydrodynamics modeling
FOS: Physical sciences
7. Clean energy
01 natural sciences
Sun: granulation
Methods: data analysis
0103 physical sciences
Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
010303 astronomy & astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Physics
Photosphere
Finite volume method
Model photosphere
Sun: photosphere
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Solar physics
Computational physics
Convection zone
Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
13. Climate action
Space and Planetary Science
Physics::Space Physics
Original Article
Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Magnetohydrodynamics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Astrophysics and Space Science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....47f44950f8f901318faf44c98d53ac68