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The New Solar Composition and the Solar Metallicity

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We review the current status of our knowledge of the chemical composition of the sun and present a redetermination of the solar abundances of all available elements. These new results have very recently been published by Asplund et al. (2009). The basic ingredients of this work, the main results and their implications are discussed.

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N.G. thanks the editors for their invitation and IAGA for support.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Centre Spatial de Liège and Institut d’Astrophysique et de Géophysique, Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium

    Nicolas Grevesse

  2. Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching, Germany

    Martin Asplund

  3. Observatoire Royal de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium

    A. Jacques Sauval

  4. Department of Physics and Oskar Klein Center for Cosmoparticle Physics, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden

    Pat Scott

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  1. Center for Astrophysics, Harvard-Smithsonian, Garden St. 60, Cambridge, 02138, Massachusetts, USA

    Mari Paz Miralles

  2. Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, La Laguna, Tenerife, 38205, Spain

    Jorge Sánchez Almeida

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Grevesse, N., Asplund, M., Sauval, A.J., Scott, P. (2011). The New Solar Composition and the Solar Metallicity. In: Miralles, M., Sánchez Almeida, J. (eds) The Sun, the Solar Wind, and the Heliosphere. IAGA Special Sopron Book Series, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9787-3_6

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