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Intermittency as a possible underlying mechanism for solar and stellar variability

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We briefly discuss the status of the intermittency hypothesis, according to which the grand minima type variability in solar-type stars may be understood in terms of dynamical intermittency. We review concrete examples which establish this hypothesis in the mean-field setting. We discuss some difficulties and open problems regarding the establishment of this hypothesis in more realistic settings as well as its operationally decidability.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9904394,
  title  = {Intermittency as a possible underlying mechanism for solar and stellar variability},
  author = {Reza Tavakol and Eurico Covas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9904394},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Submitted to PASP, paper presented at the Workshop on Stellar Dynamos: Chaotic flows and nonlinearities. Full paper available at http://www.maths.qmw.ac.uk/~eoc

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