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We model the surface magnetic field and open flux of the Sun from 1913 to 1986 using a surface flux transport model, which includes the observed cycle-to-cycle variation of sunspot group tilts. The model reproduces the empirically derived…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 R. H. Cameron , J. Jiang , D. Schmitt , M. Schüssler

Variations of the sunspot number are important indicators of the solar activity cycles. The sunspot formation is a result of a dynamo process inside the Sun, which is far from being understood. We use simple dynamical models of the dynamo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-11 I. N. Kitiashvili , A. G. Kosovichev

The change of sound speed has been found at the base of the convection during the solar cycles, which can be used to constrain the solar internal magnetic field. We aim to check whether the magnetic field generated by the solar dynamo can…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 Shaolan Bi , Tanda Li , Kang Liu , Jie Jiang , Yaguang Li , Jinghua Zhang , Xianfei Zhang , Yaqian Wu

The sunspot number data during the past 400 years indicates that both the profile and the amplitude of the solar cycle have large variations. Some precursors of the solar cycle were identified aiming to predict the solar cycle. The polar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jie Jiang

The periodically varying Lorentz force of the periodic solar magnetic field generated by the solar dynamo can induce two kinds of motions: torsional oscillations and periodic variations in the meridional circulation. Observational evidence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Arnab Rai Choudhuri

When our Sun was young it rotated much more rapidly than now. Observations of young, rapidly rotating stars indicate that many possess substantial magnetic activity and strong axisymmetric magnetic fields. We conduct simulations of dynamo…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-15 Benjamin P. Brown , Matthew K. Browning , Allen Sacha Brun , Mark S. Miesch , Juri Toomre

The polar magnetic field of the Sun is a manifestation of certain aspects of the dynamo process and is a good precursor for predicting a sunspot cycle before its onset. Although actual synoptic measurements of this field exist only from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Arnab Rai Choudhuri

Context. Solar dynamo models of Babcock-Leighton type typically assume the rise of magnetic flux tubes to be instantaneous. Solutions with high-magnetic-diffusivity have too short periods and a wrong migration of their active belts. Only…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 Y. Fournier , R. Arlt , D. Elstner

The prediction of the strength of future solar cycles is of interest because of its practical significance for space weather and as a test of our theoretical understanding of the solar cycle. The Babcock-Leighton mechanism allows…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 Jie Jiang , Jing-Xiu Wang , Qi-Rong Jiao , Jin-Bin Cao

We amend Babcock's original scenario for the global dynamo process that sustains the Sun's 22-year magnetic cycle. The amended scenario fits post-Babcock observed features of the magnetic activity cycle and convection zone, and is based on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-20 Ronald L. Moore , J. W. Cirtain , Alphonse C. Sterling

Non-axisymmetric stationary magnetic perturbations lead to the formation of homoclinic tangles near the divertor magnetic saddle in tokamak discharges. These tangles intersect the divertor plates in static helical structures that delimit…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 D. Ciro , T. E. Evans , I. L. Caldas

We investigated the dependence of the solar magnetic parity between the hemispheres on two important parameters, the turbulent diffusivity and the meridional flow, by means of axisymmetric kinematic dynamo simulations based on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 H. Hotta , T. Yokoyama

Solar activity seems quite understandable when considered on the scales comparable with a solar cycle, i.e. about 11 years, and on a short time scale of about a year. A solar cycle looks basically (anti)symmetric with respect to the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-08 V. N. Obridko , A. S. Shibalova , D. D. Sokoloff , I. M. Livshits

Predictions of solar cycle 24 obtained from advection-dominated and diffusion-dominated kinematic dynamo models are different if the Babcock-Leighton mechanism is the only source of the poloidal field. Yeates et al. (2008) argue that the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-07 Soumitra Hazra , Allan Sacha Brun , Dibyendu Nandy

We investigate how representing active regions with bipolar magnetic regions (BMRs) affects the end-of-cycle polar field predicted by the surface flux transport model. Our study is based on a new database of BMRs derived from the SDO/HMI…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-09 A. R. Yeates

Simple models of magnetic field generation by convection in rotating spherical shells exhibit properties resembling those observed on the sun. The {assumption of the Boussinesq approximation made in these models} prevents a realistic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Radostin D. Simitev , Friedrich H. Busse

The solar dipole moment at activity minimum is a good predictor of the strength of the subsequent solar cycle. Through a systematic analysis using a state-of-the-art 2$\times$2 D solar dynamo model, we found that bipolar magnetic regions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-18 Melinda Nagy , Alexandre Lemerle , Paul Charbonneau

A three-dimensional (3D) MHD model is applied to simulate the evolution of a large-scale magnetic field in a barred galaxy possessing a gaseous halo extending to about 2.8 kpc above the galactic plane. As the model input we use a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Otmianowska-Mazur , D. Elstner , M. Soida , M. Urbanik

The solar surface magnetic field is fundamental for modeling the coronal magnetic field, studying the solar dynamo, and predicting solar cycle strength. We perform a continuous simulation of the surface magnetic field from 2010 to 2024,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-03 Ruihui Wang , Jie Jiang , Yukun Luo

Detailed study of the solar magnetic field is crucial to understand its generation, transport and reversals. The timing of the reversals may have implications on space weather and thus identification of the temporal behavior of the critical…