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The change of sound speed has been found at the base of the convection during the solar cycles, which can be used to constrain the solar internal magnetic field. We aim to check whether the magnetic field generated by the solar dynamo can…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 Shaolan Bi , Tanda Li , Kang Liu , Jie Jiang , Yaguang Li , Jinghua Zhang , Xianfei Zhang , Yaqian Wu

A physically consistent model of magnetic field generation by convection in a rotating spherical shell with a minimum of parameters is applied to the Sun. Despite its unrealistic features the model exhibits a number of properties resembling…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 R. D. Simitev , F. H. Busse

(1)The previous theoretical studies showed that in the presence of the small-scale dynamo the large-scale vorticity can produce the the divergent-type helicity flux breaking the equatorial reflection symmetry of the magnetic fluctuations in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-13 V. V. Pipin

The paper address the effects of magnetic helicity conservation in a non-linear nonaxisymmetric mean-field solar dynamo model. We study the evolution of the shallow non-axisymmetric magnetic field perturbation with the strength about 10G in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-21 V. V. Pipin

The Earth is a planet with a dipolar magnetic field which is agitated by a magnetized plasma wind streaming from the Sun. The magnetic field shields the Earth's surface from penetrating high energy solar wind particles, as well as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. T. Birk , H. Lesch , C. Konz

Using the non-linear mean-field dynamo models we calculate the magnetic cycle parameters, like the dynamo cycle period, the amplitude of the total magnetic energy, and the Poynting flux luminosity from the surface for the solar analogs with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-27 V. V. Pipin

Sunspots are of basic interest in the study of the Sun. Their relevance ranges from them being an activity indicator of magnetic fields to being the place where coronal mass ejections and flares erupt. They are therefore also an important…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-24 Illa R. Losada , Jörn Warnecke , Kolja Glogowski , Markus Roth , Axel Brandenburg , Nathan Kleeorin , Igor Rogachevskii

We consider a dynamo wave in the solar convective shell for the kinematic $\alpha\omega$-dynamo model. The spectrum and eigenfunctions of the corresponding equations are derived analytically with the aid of the WKB method. Our main aim here…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Victor Galitski , D. D. Sokoloff

Self-organization properties of sustained magnetized plasma are applied to selected solar data to understand solar magnetic fields. Torsional oscillations are speed-up and slow-down bands of the azimuthal flow that correlate with the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-26 T. R. Jarboe , T. E. Benedett , C. J. Everson , C. J. Hansen , A. C. Hossack , K. D. Morgan , B. A. Nelson , J. M. Penna , D. A. Sutherland

Several phenomena connected with the magnetic field of the Sun (the cool sunspots, the hot corona, solar flares, the solar wind) are collectively known as solar activity. This paper discusses how one uses the MHD equations to understand how…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-31 Arnab Rai Choudhuri

In this paper we first discuss observational evidence of longitudinal concentrations of magnetic activity in the Sun and rapidly rotating late-type stars with outer convective envelopes. Scenarios arising from the idea of rotationally…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 M. J. Mantere , Petri J. Käpylä , Jaan Pelt

A major outstanding problem in solar physics is the confinement of the solar tachocline, the thin shear layer that separates nearly solid-body rotation in the radiative interior from strong differential rotation in the convection zone.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 Loren I. Matilsky , Bradley W. Hindman , Nicholas A. Featherstone , Catherine C. Blume , Juri Toomre

Any viable theory of modified Newtonian dynamcs (MOND) as modified gravity is likely to require fields in addition to the usual tensor field of General Relativity. For such theories the MOND phenomenology emerges from an effective fifth…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. H. Sanders

The life of a solar active prominence, one of the most remarkable objects on the Sun, is full of dynamics; after first appearing on the Sun the prominence continuously evolves with various internal motions and eventually produces a global…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 Tetsuya Magara

A magnetic flux tube may be considered both as a separate body and as a confined field. As a field, it is affected both by differential rotation ($\Omega$-effect) and cyclonic convection ($\alpha$-effect). As a body, the tube experiences…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. H. Li , S. Sofia , G. Belvedere

The goal of this research is to investigate how magnetic field affects the dynamics of granular convection and excitation of solar oscillations by means of realistic numerical simulations. We have used a 3D, compressible, non-linear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-05-27 L. Jacoutot , A. G. Kosovichev , A. Wray , N. N. Mansour

Spectropolarimetric observations show that many low-mass stars possess large-scale poloidal magnetic fields with considerable dipole component, which in some cases exhibit temporal dynamics - cycles or reversals. Although it is widely…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-02 Anna Guseva , Ludovic Petitdemange , Charly Pinçon

We discuss recent advances made in modelling the complex magnetohydrodynamics of the Sun using our anelastic spherical harmonics (ASH) code. We have conducted extensive 3--D simulations of compressible convection in rotating spherical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Allan Sacha Brun , Juri Toomre

Interactions between flows and magnetic fields in the Sun's plasma can change surface waves and flows near active regions, are evident in cyclic changes of large-scale phenomena such as the meridional circulation, and contribute to dynamics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-23 E. J. Zita , C. Smith , N. E. Hurlburt

Our understanding of stellar dynamos has largely been driven by the phenomena we have observed of our own Sun. Yet, as we amass longer-term datasets for an increasing number of stars, it is clear that there is a wide variety of stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Maria A. Weber