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A Critical Assessment of the Flux Transport Dynamo

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2015-05-20 v1

Abstract

We first discuss how the flux transport dynamo with reasonably high diffusion can explain both the regular and the irregular features of the solar cycle quite well. Then we critically examine the inadequacies of the model and the challenge posed by some recent observational data about meridional circulation, arriving at the conclusion that this model can still work within the bounds of observational data

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@article{arxiv.1408.3968,
  title  = {A Critical Assessment of the Flux Transport Dynamo},
  author = {Arnab Rai Choudhuri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.3968},
  year   = {2015}
}

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11 pages, 2 figures, Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics (invited article for the special issue "MHD Waves and Dynamical Processes in the Magnetised Solar and Space Plasmas")