Can Recently Derived Solar Photospheric Abundances Be Consistent with Helioseismology?

J. Guzik, L. S. Watson

Recent solar abundance analyses (Asplund et al. 2004; Lodders 2003) revise downward the abundances of C, N, O, Ne, and Ar, which reduces the solar photospheric Z/X to 0.017, and Z…