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We present the first results from three-dimensional spherical shell simulations of magnetic dynamo action realized by turbulent convection penetrating downward into a tachocline of rotational shear. This permits us to assess several…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Matthew Browning , Mark S. Miesch , Allan Sacha Brun , Juri Toomre

We here report calculations of magnetic buoyancy instabilities of a sheared magnetic layer where two separate zones are unstable. The idea is to study the possible generation of large-scale helical structures which could then rise through a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-31 L. Jouve , L. J. Silvers , M. R. E. Proctor

Our global 3D simulations of convection and dynamo action in a Sun-like star reveal that persistent wreaths of strong magnetism can be built within the bulk of the convention zone. Here we examine the characteristics of buoyant magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Nicholas J. Nelson , Benjamin P. Brown , A. Sacha Brun , Mark S. Miesch , Juri Toomre

We investigate the generation mechanisms of MHD Poynting flux in the magnetised solar photosphere. Using radiative MHD modelling of the solar photosphere with initial magnetic configurations that differ in their field strength and geometry,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Shelyag , M. Mathioudakis , F. P. Keenan

Large-scale magnetic fields in stars and galaxies are thought to arise by mean-field dynamo action due to the combined influence of both helical turbulence and shear. Those systems are also highly conducting and the turbulence therein leads…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-22 Pallavi Bhat , Kandaswamy Subramanian , Axel Brandenburg

Flux emergence is crucial for the formation of solar active regions and triggering of various eruptions. However, the detailed mechanisms by which flux emergence drives these eruptions remain unclear and require numerical investigation.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 Xiaohong Li , Yuhao Zhou , Rony Keppens

Inspired by observations of sunspots embedded in active regions, it is often assumed that large-scale, strong magnetic flux emerges from the Sun's deep interior in the form of arched, cylindrical structures, colloquially known as flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-28 Bhishek Manek , Christina Pontin , Nicholas Brummell

Photospheric granulation may excite transverse kink pulses in anchored vertical magnetic flux tubes. The pulses propagate upwards along the tubes with the kink speed, while oscillating wakes are formed behind the wave front in a stratified…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. V. Zaqarashvili , N. Skhirtladze

One important ingredient of flux transport dynamo models is the rise of the toroidal magnetic field through the convection zone due to magnetic buoyancy to produce bipolar sunspots and then the generation of the poloidal magnetic field from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Arnab Rai Choudhuri , Gopal Hazra

Dynamo action refers to energy exchange processes through which magnetic fields are generated at the expense of kinetic energy of the plasma flows. Dynamos can generate magnetic fields across scales larger or smaller than the flows…

We investigate the relations between tachocline-based dynamos and the surface flux transport mechanisms in stars with outer convection zones. Using our combined models of flux generation and transport, we demonstrate the importance of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Emre Işik , Dieter Schmitt , Manfred Schüssler

We propose a phenomenological technique for modelling the emergence of active regions within a three-dimensional, kinematic dynamo framework. By imposing localised velocity perturbations, we create emergent flux-tubes out of toroidal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. R. Yeates , A. Muñoz-Jaramillo

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

A rigorous theory for the generation of a large-scale magnetic field by random non-helically forced motions of a conducting fluid combined with a linear shear is presented in the analytically tractable limit of low Rm and weak shear. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-15 T. Heinemann , J. C. McWilliams , A. A. Schekochihin

We demonstrate that a magneto-convection simulation incorporating essential physical processes governing solar surface convection exhibits turbulent small-scale dynamo action. By presenting a derivation of the energy balance equation and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-23 Jonathan Pietarila Graham , Robert Cameron , Manfred Schuessler

The current dynamo paradigm for the Sun and sun-like stars places the generation site for strong toroidal magnetic structures deep in the solar interior. Sunspots and star-spots on sun-like stars are believed to arise when sections of these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Nicholas J. Nelson , Benjamin P. Brown , Allan Sacha Brun , Mark S. Miesch , Juri Toomre

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 the cyclonic convection ($\alpha$-effect) and differential rotation ($\Omega$-effect). As a body, the tube…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. H. Li , S. Sofia

We construct a magnetic helicity conserving dynamo theory which incorporates a calculated magnetic helicity current. In this model the fluid helicity plays a small role in large scale magnetic field generation. Instead, the dynamo process…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ethan T. Vishniac , Jungyeon Cho

We have performed a three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulation to study the emergence of a twisted magnetic flux tube from -20,000 km of the solar convection zone to the corona through the photosphere and the chromosphere. The middle…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 S. Toriumi , T. Yokoyama

The toroidal magnetic field is assumed to be generated in the tachocline in most Babcock-Leighton (BL)-type solar dynamo models, in which the poloidal field is produced by the emergence and subsequent dispersal of sunspot groups. However,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-11 Zebin Zhang , Jie Jiang