Bibcode
Shchukina, N.; Sukhorukov, A.; Trujillo Bueno, J.
Referencia bibliográfica
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 586, id.A145, 9 pp.
Fecha de publicación:
2
2016
Revista
Número de citas
10
Número de citas referidas
9
Descripción
Most studies of the solar metallicity, based on abundance determinations
of the CNO elements, ignore the fact that the quiet solar photosphere is
significantly magnetized by a small-scale magnetic field with a mean
field strength of ~100 G. Here we quantify how this significant
magnetization affects determinations of the abundances of these chemical
elements. To this end, we used two three-dimensional models of the solar
photosphere taken from a magneto-convection simulation with small-scale
dynamo action, one virtually unmagnetized, and the other characterized
by a mean field strength of 160 G in the low photosphere. We performed
local thermodynamic equilibrium spectral synthesis for a large set of C
i, N i, and O i lines to derive abundance corrections. We included the
magnetic broadening of the lines (direct effect) and the magnetically
induced changes of the photospheric temperature stratification (indirect
effect). We find that these small-scale dynamo magnetic fields only
negligibly affect the determination of the solar abundances of carbon,
nitrogen, and oxygen.