Helioseismology and solar neutrinos

Abstract

Helioseismology has provided very precise information about the solar internal sound speed and density throughout most of the solar interior. The results are generally quite close to the properties of standard solar models. Since the solar oscillation frequencies do not provide direct information about temperature and composition, the helioseismic results to not completely rule out an astrophysical solution to the discrepancy between the predicted and measured neutrino fluxes from the Sun. However, such a solution does appear rather implausible.