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Stochastic Excitation in Solar-Type Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

G. Houdek
G. Houdek*
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, CB3 0HA, UK

Abstract

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The most convincing evidence to date of solar-type oscillations in other stars comes from recent observations of β Hydri (Bedding et al., 2001) and α Cen A (Bouchy & Carrier, 2001). It is the current belief that the convection dynamics in the outer layers of sun-like stars is the source for driving the intrinsically stable modes to the observed amplitudes. Comparing such observations with theoretical models will help us improve our understanding of the interaction between convection and pulsation.

In this contribution I review the mechanisms responsible for mode damping in stars with convective envelopes, and the basic mechanism of stochastic driving by turbulent convection. The application of a stochastic excitation formalism to the Sun is discussed and compared with recent measurements and numerical simulations. Amplitude predictions for models of Procyon, α Cen A and β Hydri are compared with observations.

Type
Part 4. The Interaction between Convection and Pulsation
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 185: Radial and Nonradial Pulsations as Probes of Stellar Physics , 2002 , pp. 447 - 455
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2002

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