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Journal Article
Hydrogen Ionization Inside the Sun
2025
Overview
Hydrogen is the main chemical component of the solar plasma, and H-ionization determines basic properties of the first adiabatic exponent
Γ
1
. Its ionization significantly differs from the ionization of other chemicals. Due to the large number concentration, H-ionization causes a pronounced lowering of
Γ
1
, with a strongly asymmetric and extending across almost the entire solar convective zone. The excited states in the hydrogen atom are modeled using a partition function, which accounts for the internal degrees of freedom of the composite particle. A temperature-dependent partition function with an asymptotic cut-off tail is derived from the quantum mechanical solution for the hydrogen atom in the plasma. We present numerical simulations of hydrogen ionization, calculated using two partition function models: Planck-Larkin (PL) and Starostin-Roerich (SR). In the SR model, the hydrogen ionization shifts to higher temperatures than in the PL model. Different models for excited states of the hydrogen atom may change
Γ
1
by as much as
10
−
2
. The
Γ
1
profiles for pure hydrogen exhibit a “twisted rope” structure for the two models, significantly affecting the helium ionization and the position of the helium hump. This entanglement of H and He effect provides a valuable opportunity to investigate the role of excited states in the solar plasma.
Publisher
Springer Netherlands,Springer Nature B.V
