The quest for solar gravity modes: probing the solar interior

TL;DR

This paper reviews the efforts to detect solar gravity modes, discusses their significance for understanding the solar interior, and explores how their detection can enhance models of solar dynamics and core rotation.

Contribution

It provides an update on the status of g-mode detection and illustrates how their observation can improve solar interior models and core rotation understanding.

Findings

Detection of asymptotic properties of g-modes

Potential to improve solar core rotation profiles

Enhanced solar models through g-mode data

Abstract

The solar gravity modes are the best probes to improve our knowledge on the solar interior, as they spend most of their time in the radiative zone, which represents 98% of the solar mass. Many attempts have been led to observe them using different techniques: either individually, then adding some statistical approach or more recently, globally leading to the detection of the signature of asymptotical properties of these modes. Then, several theoretical works have been done to quantify the effect of detecting g-mode on solar modeling and on the rotation profile. We will give here an update on the g-mode detection. Then, we will study an example of a theoretical work showing how their detection would improve our knowledge on the dynamics of the solar core as well as an application on the detection of the global properties to infer some physical inputs in solar models.