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Current helicity quantifies the location of twisted and sheared non-potential structures in a magnetic field. We simulate the evolution of magnetic fields in the solar atmosphere in response to flux emergence and shearing by photospheric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. R. Yeates , D. H. Mackay , A. A. van Ballegooijen

Since the discovery of solar cycle related with magnetic field in 1908, deep seated oscillatory dynamo has been studied extensively. However, there are still open questions on the solar dynamo, e.g., asymmetric conversion between…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-16 Biping Gong

In addition to the well-known 11-year solar cycle, the Sun's magnetic activity also shows significant variation on shorter time scales, e.g. between one and two years. We observe a quasi-biennial (2-year) signal in the solar p-mode…

Recent studies of the heliospheric magnetic field (HMF) have detected interesting, systematic hemispherical and longitudinal asymmetries which have a profound significance for the understanding of solar magnetic fields. The in situ HMF…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Mursula , T. Hiltula

We analyse the spatial distribution of current helicity in solar active regions. A comparison of current helicity maps derived from three different instruments (Helioseismic and Magnetc Imager on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 A. S. Kutsenko , V. I. Abramenko , K. M. Kuzanyan , Haiqing Xu , Hongqi Zhang

The hemispheric asymmetry of sunspot activity observed possesses a regular component varying on a time scale of several solar cycles whose origin and properties are currently debated. This paper addresses the question of whether the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-08 Alexander Nepomnyashchikh , Sudip Mandal , Dipankar Banerjee , Leonid Kitchatinov

We search for observational signatures of magnetic helicity in data from all-sky radio polarization surveys of the Milky Way Galaxy. Such a detection would help confirm the dynamo origin of the field and may provide new observational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-14 J. L. West , R. N. Henriksen , K. Ferrière , A. Woodfinden , T. Jaffe , B. M. Gaensler , J. A. Irwin

Recent analysis of the helioseismic observations indicate that the previously observed surface torsional oscillations extend significantly downwards into the solar convection zone. In an attempt to understand these oscillations, we study…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eurico Covas , Reza Tavakol , David Moss , Andrew Tworkowski

Using a 3D non-linear mean-field solar dynamo model, we investigate the magnetic helicity flux and magnetic twist, and tilt parameters of bipolar magnetic regions (BMRs) emerging from the solar convection zone due to the magnetic buoyancy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-04 V. V. Pipin , Shangbin Yang , A. G. Kosovichev

Many stars exhibit strong magnetic fields, some of which are thought to be of primordial origin and others a sign of magnetic dynamo processes. We briefly review the results of observational studies of solar-type stars seeking to evaluate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Allan Sacha Brun

We assess the global-scale dynamo action achieved in a simulation of a sun-like star rotating at three times the solar rate. The 3-D MHD Anelastic Spherical Harmonic code, using slope-limited diffusion, is employed to capture convection and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-01 Kyle Augustson , Allan Sacha Brun , Mark Steven Miesch , Juri Toomre

The magnetic activity of the Sun, as manifested in the sunspot cycle, originates deep within its convection zone through a dynamo mechanism which involves non-trivial interactions between the plasma and magnetic field in the solar interior.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dibyendu Nandy

In this thesis, various studies are performed leading to better understanding of the 11-year solar cycle and its theoretical modeling with the flux transport dynamo model. Although this is primarily a theoretical thesis, there is a part…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-26 Gopal Hazra

Helioseismology provides important constraints for the solar dynamo problem. However, the basic properties and even the depth of the dynamo process, which operates also in other stars, are unknown. Most of the dynamo models suggest that the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-11 Alexander G. Kosovichev , Valery V. Pipin , Junwei Zhao

The injection of magnetic helicity into the heliosphere during solar cycle 24 and the early phase of cycle 25 has been calculated based on the analysis of a series of synoptic magnetic charts. During the cycle, the injected magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-28 H. Q. Zhang , S. B. Yang , K. M. Kuzanyan , Axel Brandenburg , H. Q. Xu , D. D. Sokoloff

Huairou Solar Observing Station of the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has been in operation since 1987. Successful observations of the solar vector magnetic field have been conducted during its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-02 Hongqi Zhang , Jiangtao Su , Xiaofan Wang , Xingming Bao , Yu Liu , Yingzi Sun , Mingyu Zhao

Observations of the sun suggest that solar activities systematically create north-south hemispheric asymmetries. For instance, the hemisphere in which the sunspot activity is more active tends to switch after the early half of each solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-12 D. Syukuya , K. Kusano

The dynamic activity of stars such as the Sun influences (exo)planetary space environments through modulation of stellar radiation, plasma wind, particle and magnetic fluxes. Energetic stellar phenomena such as flares and coronal mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Prantika Bhowmik , Jie Jiang , Lisa Upton , Alexandre Lemerle , Dibyendu Nandy

The solar cycle onset at mid-latitudes, the slow down of the sunspot drift toward the equator, the tail-like attachment and the overlap of successive cycles at the time of activity minimum are delicate issues in $\alpha\Omega$ dynamo wave…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-07 R. Simoniello , S. C. Tripathy , K. Jain , F. Hill

It can be shown on observational grounds that two basic effects of dynamo theory for solar activity - production of the toroidal field from the poloidal one by differential rotation and reverse conversion of the toroidal field to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 L. L. Kitchatinov