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Despite their discovery fifteen years ago, the nature and origin of the Fermi bubbles remain unclear. We here investigate the effect a magnetic field can have on a subsonic breeze outflow emanating from the Galactic centre region. The…

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We study the inflationary generation of helical cosmological magnetic fields in a higher-dimensional generalization of the electromagnetic theory. For this purpose, we also include a parity breaking piece to the electromagnetic action. The…

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Vector displacements expressed in spherical coordinates are proposed. They correspond to electromagnetic fields in vacuum that globally rotate about an axis and display many circular patterns on the surface of a sphere. The fields basically…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-06-11 Daniele Funaro

To explain the large-scale magnetic field of the Sun and other bodies, mean-field dynamo theory is commonly applied where one solves the averaged equations for the mean magnetic field. However, the standard approach breaks down when the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-06 A. Brandenburg , P. Chatterjee

Core convection and dynamo activity deep within rotating A-type stars of 2 solar masses are studied with 3--D nonlinear simulations. Our modeling considers the inner 30% by radius of such stars, thus capturing within a spherical domain the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Allan Sacha Brun , Matthew K. Browning , Juri Toomre

We discuss recent progress in understanding the launching of outflows/jets from the disc-magnetosphere boundary of slowly and rapidly rotating magnetized stars. In most of the discussed models the interior of the disc is assumed to have a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-06 R. V. E. Lovelace , M. M. Romanova , P. Lii

The Earth's magnetic field is generated by dynamo action driven by convection in the outer core. For numerical reasons, inertial and viscous forces play an important role in geodynamo models; however, the primary dynamical balance in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 David W. Hughes , Fausto Cattaneo

We have performed 3D MHD simulations to study the effect of partial ionization in the process of magnetic flux emergence in the Sun. In fact, we continue previous work and we now focus: 1) on the emergence of the magnetic fields above the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-17 Georgios Chouliaras , V. Archontis

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 present a three-dimensional numerical model for the generation and evolution of the magnetic field in the solar convection zone, in which sunspots are produced and contribute to the cyclic reversal of the large-scale magnetic field. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-30 Rohit Kumar , Laurène Jouve , Rui F. Pinto , Alexis P. Rouillard

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

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

The presence of turbulent phenomena in the outer solar atmosphere is a given. However, because we are reduced to remotely sensing the atmosphere of a star with instruments of limited spatial and/or spectral resolution, we can only infer the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-12 Scott W. McIntosh , Christian Bethge , James Threlfall , Ineke De Moortel , Robert J. Leamon , Hui Tian

The magnetic network extending from the photosphere (solar radius $\simeq R_\odot$) to lower corona ($R_\odot + 10$ Mm) plays an important role in the heating mechanisms of the solar atmosphere. Here we further develop the models with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-02 Frederick A. Gent , Ben Snow , Viktor Fedun , Robertus Erdelyi

Hot Jupiters have proven themselves to be a rich class of exoplanets which test our theories of planetary evolution and atmospheric dynamics under extreme conditions. Here, we present three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-21 T. M. Rogers , J. N. McElwaine

We present the results of a set of three-dimensional numerical simulations of magnetic flux emergence from below the photosphere into the corona that include a uniform and horizontal coronal magnetic field mimicking a pre-existing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Galsgaard , F. Moreno-Insertis , V. Archontis , A. Hood

Using numerical simulations we show that low-amplitude Alfv\'en waves from a magnetar quake propagate to the outer magnetosphere and convert to "plasmoids" (closed magnetic loops) which accelerate from the star, driving blast waves into the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 Yajie Yuan , Andrei M. Beloborodov , Alexander Y. Chen , Yuri Levin

Using mean-field models with a dynamical quenching formalism we show that in finite domains magnetic helicity fluxes associated with small-scale magnetic fields are able to alleviate catastrophic quenching. We consider fluxes that result…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-12 Axel Brandenburg , Simon Candelaresi , Piyali Chatterjee

Surface observations indicate that the speed of the solar meridional circulation in the photosphere varies in anti-phase with the solar cycle. The current explanation for the source of this variation is that inflows into active regions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 D. Passos , M. Miesch , G. Guerrero , P. Charbonneau

(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…

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