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Context: The context of this paper is buoyant toroidal magnetic flux ropes, which is a part of flux tube dynamo theory and the framework of solar-like magnetic activity. Aims: The aim is to investigate how twisted magnetic flux ropes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 S. B. F. Dorch

The emergence of active regions on the Sun is an integral feature of the solar dynamo mechanism. However, details about the generation of active-region-scale magnetism and the journey of this magnetic flux to the photosphere are still in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-13 Maria A. Weber , Hannah Schunker , Laurène Jouve , Emre Işık

Stably stratified layers are present in stellar interiors (radiative zones) as well as planetary interiors - recent observations and theoretical studies of the Earth's magnetic field seem to indicate the presence of a thin, stably…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-10 J. Philidet , C. Gissinger , F. Lignières , L. Petitdemange

We investigate the build-up of the galactic dynamo and subsequently the origin of a magnetic driven outflow. We use a setup of an isolated disc galaxy with a realistic circum-galactic medium (CGM). We find good agreement of the galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-01 Ulrich P. Steinwandel , Klaus Dolag , Harald Lesch , Benjamin P. Moster , Andreas Burkert , Almudena Prieto

Evidence of surface magnetism is now observed on an increasing number of cool stars. The detailed manner by which dynamo-generated magnetic fields giving rise to starspots traverse the convection zone still remains unclear. Some insight…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Maria A. Weber , Matthew K. Browning , Suzannah Boardman , Joshua Clarke , Samuel Pugsley , Edward Townsend

Here, we present numerical simulations of magnetic flux buoyantly rising from a granular convection zone into the low corona. We study the complex interaction of the magnetic field with the turbulent plasma. The model includes the radiative…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Fang Fang , Ward Manchester , William P. Abbett , Bart van der Holst

The periodic coronal rain and in-phase radiative intensity pulsations have been observed in multiple wavelengths in recent years. However, due to the lack of three-dimensional coronal magnetic fields and thermodynamic data in observations,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-02 Zekun Lu , Feng Chen , J. H. Guo , M. D. Ding , Can Wang , Haocheng Yu , Y. W. Ni , Chun Xia

We consider the conditions under which a rotating magnetic object can produce a magnetically powered outflow in an initially unmagnetized medium stratified under gravity. 3D MHD simulations are presented in which the footpoints of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 R. Moll

The dynamics of stably stratified stellar radiative zones is of considerable interest due to the availability of increasingly detailed observations of Solar and stellar interiors. This article reports the first non-axisymmetric and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-13 Radostin D. Simitev , Friedrich H. Busse

Intermittent large-scale high-shear flows are found to occur frequently and spontaneously in direct numerical simulations of statistically stationary turbulent Boussinesq magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) convection. The energetic steady-state of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-06 J. Pratt , A. Busse , W. -C. Mueller

For more than thirty years, the dynamical maintenance of the thin solar tachocline has remained one of the central outstanding problems of stellar astrophysics. Three main theories have been developed to explain the tachocline's thinness,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Loren I. Matilsky , Juri Toomre

We propose a solar dynamo model distributed in the bulk of the convection zone with the toroidal magnetic field the flux concentrated in the near-surface layer. We show that if the boundary conditions at the top of the dynamo region allow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 V. V. Pipin , A. G. Kosovichev

Jetted astrophysical phenomena with black hole (BH) engines, including binary mergers, jetted tidal disruption events, and X-ray binaries, require a large-scale vertical magnetic field for efficient jet formation. However, a dynamo…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-02 Jonatan Jacquemin-Ide , François Rincon , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Matthew Liska

Previous axisymmetric investigations in two dimensions (2D) have shown that rings and gaps develop naturally in non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) disk-wind systems, especially in the presence of ambipolar diffusion (AD). Here we extend…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 Scott S. Suriano , Zhi-Yun Li , Ruben Krasnopolsky , Takeru K. Suzuki , Hsien Shang

The negative effective magnetic pressure instability operates on scales encompassing many turbulent eddies and is here discussed in connection with the formation of active regions near the surface layers of the Sun. This instability is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-10 Koen Kemel , Axel Brandenburg , Nathan Kleeorin , Dhrubaditya Mitra , Igor Rogachevskii

Arch-like loop structures filled with million Kelvin hot plasma form the building blocks of the quiet-Sun corona. Both high-resolution observations and magnetoconvection simulations show the ubiquitous presence of magnetic fields on the…

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

Forming planets around young, fast-rotating solar-like stars are exposed to an intense X-ray/extreme ultraviolet radiation field and strongly magnetized stellar winds, as a consequence of the high magnetic activity of these stars. Under…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Ada Canet , Ana I. Gómez De Castro

Using a thin flux tube model in a rotating spherical shell of turbulent, solar-like convective flows, we find that the distribution of emerging flux tubes in our simulation is inhomogeneous in longitude, with properties similar to those of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Maria A. Weber , Yuhong Fan , Mark S. Miesch

Stably stratified fluid layers are common in gaseous planets, stellar interiors, and planetary cores, and have long been considered incapable of sustaining dynamo action. Here, we show that semiconvection - driven by a destabilizing thermal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Paul Pružina , David Cébron , Nathanaël Schaeffer