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We provide a consistent theory of the tachocline confinement (or anisotropic momentum transport) within an hydrodynamical turbulence model. The goal is to explain helioseismological data, which show that the solar tachocline thickness is at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nicolas Leprovost , Eun-Jin Kim

We explore consequences for the solar dynamo of a newly-developed physical hypothesis describing a weak coupling of the orbital and rotational motions of extended bodies. The coupling is given by - c ((dL/dt) x omega sub alpha) x r, where…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-07 James H. Shirley

We present a detailed numerical study of the Gough & McIntyre model for the solar tachocline. This model explains the uniformity of the rotation profile observed in the bulk of the radiative zone by the presence of a large-scale primordial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pascale Garaud , Jean-Didier D. Garaud

Increasing evidence is becoming available about not only the surface differential rotation of rapidly rotating cool stars but, in a small number of cases, also about temporal variations, which possibly are analogous to the solar torsional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Covas , D. Moss , R. Tavakol

The leading theoretical paradigm for the Sun's magnetic cycle is an $\alpha\omega$-dynamo process, in which a combination of differential rotation and turbulent, helical flows produces a large-scale magnetic field that reverses every 11…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-16 Craig D. Duguid , Paul J. Bushby , Toby S. Wood

We use rotation splittings derived from very long and long time series, namely 25.2, 12.6 and 6.3 year long, computed by Korzennik (2023) independent methodology to characterize the solar tachocline and its variation with latitude and time.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Sylvain G. Korzennik , Antonio Eff-Darwich

The global rotational profile of the solar atmosphere and its variation at different layers, although crucial for a comprehensive understanding of the dynamics of the solar magnetic field, has been a subject to contradictory results…

Understanding the irregular variation of the solar cycle is crucial due to its significant impact on global climates and the heliosphere. Since the polar magnetic field determines the amplitude of the next solar cycle, variations in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-25 Pawan Kumar

We present nonlinear three-dimensional simulations of the stably-stratified portion of the solar tachocline in which the rotational shear is maintained by mechanical forcing. When a broad toroidal field profile is specified as an initial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mark S. Miesch

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

Frequency splitting coefficients from Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG) and Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) observations covering the period 1995--2001 are used to study temporal variations in the solar rotation rate at high latitudes.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. M. Antia , Sarbani Basu

Two fundamental properties of stellar magnetic fields have been determined by observations for solar-like stars with different Rossby numbers (Ro), namely, the magnetic field strength and the magnetic cycle period. The field strength…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 G. Guerrero , B. Zaire , P. K. Smolarkiewicz , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , A. G. Kosovichev , N. N. Mansour

Long-term evolution characteristics of the solar transition region have been unclear. In this study, daily images of the solar full disk derived from the observations by the Solar Dynamics Observatory/Atmospheric Imaging Assembly at 304 A…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-13 W. Q. Chen , K. J. Li , J. C. Xu

The diagram of indices of coronal and chromospheric activity allowed us to reveal stars where solar-type activity appears and regular cycles are forming. Using new consideration of a relation between coronal activity and the rotation rate,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 M. M. Katsova , N. I. Bondar' , M. A. Livshits

We recently presented the first 3D numerical simulation of the solar interior for which tachocline confinement was achieved by a dynamo-generated magnetic field. In this followup study, we analyze the degree of confinement as the magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-09 Loren I. Matilsky , Nicholas H. Brummell , Bradley W. Hindman , Juri Toomre

We present independent observations of the solar-cycle variation of flows near the solar surface and at a depth of about 60 Mm, in the latitude range $\pm45^\circ$. We show that the time-varying components of the meridional flow at these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Gizon , M. Rempel

The variable magnetic field of the solar photosphere exhibits periodic reversals as a result of dynamo activity occurring within the solar interior. We decompose the surface field as observed by both the Wilcox Solar Observatory and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. L. DeRosa , A. S. Brun , J. T. Hoeksema

Solar activity is studied using a cluster analysis of the time-fluctuations of the sunspot number. It is shown that in an Historic period the high activity components of the solar cycles exhibit strong clustering, whereas in a Modern period…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 A. Bershadskii

The most promising model for explaining the origin of solar magnetism is the flux transport dynamo model, in which the toroidal field is produced by differential rotation in the tachocline, the poloidal field is produced by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Arnab Rai Choudhuri

We present an attempt to reconcile the solar tachocline glitch, a thin layer immediately beneath the convection zone in which the seismically inferred sound speed in the Sun exceeds corresponding values in standard solar models, with a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 J. Christensen-Dalsgaard , D. O. Gough , E. Knudstrup