Abstract
Because the interior of the Sun is opaque to electromagnetic waves, the radiation we receive from it on Earth is emitted in the outermost layers: the photosphere. Therefore our knowledge of the solar interior is based solely on theoretical models, which are built by making some plausible assumptions about the physical conditions and processes that are likely to prevail there. Fortunately, a powerful technique - helioseismology - has been developed in the last twenty years, which permits to probe directly the solar interior by means of acoustic waves, and this had a tremendous impact on solar physics because it provides tight observational constraints on our models. We shall illustrate this here by a few examples of recent advances in modeling the Sun.
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Zahn, JP. (2000). What we Know about the Solar Interior. In: Zahn, JP., Stavinschi, M. (eds) Advances in Solar Research at Eclipses from Ground and from Space. NATO Science Series, vol 558. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4325-7_13
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