Does the Babcock--Leighton Mechanism Operate on the Sun?
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
2011-09-08 v1
Abstract
The contribution of the Babcock-Leighton mechanism to the generation of the Sun's poloidal magnetic field is estimated from sunspot data for three solar cycles. Comparison of the derived quantities with the A-index of the large-scale magnetic field suggests a positive answer to the question posed in the title of this paper.
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@article{arxiv.1109.1351,
title = {Does the Babcock--Leighton Mechanism Operate on the Sun?},
author = {L. L. Kitchatinov and S. V. Olemskoy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.1351},
year = {2011}
}
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5 pages, 2 figures, to apper in Astronomy Letters