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Sunspots and active regions observed on the solar surface are widely believed to be manifestations of compact predominantly-toroidal magnetic field structures (``flux tubes") that emerge by magnetic buoyancy from the deeper interior of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-21 Bhishek Manek , Nicholas Brummell

To better understand the formation and decay of sunspot penumbra, we studied the evolution of sunspots in the three regions of the active-region NOAA 12673 in detail. The evolution of sunspots in the three regions were all involved in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Qiaoling Li , Xiaoli Yan , Jincheng Wang , Defang Kong , Zhike Xue , Liheng Yang

We present the properties of magnetic fields (B-fields) in two clumps (clump 1 and clump 2), located at the waist of the bipolar H II region Sh2-201, based on JCMT SCUBA-2/POL-2 observations of 850 $\mu$m polarized dust emission. We find…

Magnetic fields emerging from the Sun's interior carry information about physical processes of magnetic field generation and transport in the convection zone. Soon after appearance on the solar surface the magnetic flux gets concentrated in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. G. Kosovichev

Strong solar flares occur in $\delta $-spots characterized by the opposite-polarity magnetic fluxes in a single penumbra. Sunspot formation via flux emergence from the convection zone to the photosphere can be strongly affected by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-28 Takafumi Kaneko , Hideyuki Hotta , Shin Toriumi , Kanya Kusano

Accretion disks are likely threaded by external vertical magnetic flux, which enhances the level of turbulence via the magnetorotational instability (MRI). Using shearing-box simulations, we find that such external magnetic flux also…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Xue-Ning Bai , James M. Stone

In this paper, the generation of magnetic fields in a nonuniformly rotating layer of finite thickness of an electrically conducting fluid by thermomagnetic (TM) instability. This instability arises due to the temperature gradient $\nabla…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-23 M. I. Kopp , K. N. Kulik , A. V. Tur , V. V. Yanovsky

To understand the basic mechanism of the formation of magnetic flux concentrations, we determine by direct numerical simulations the turbulence contributions to the mean magnetic pressure in a strongly stratified isothermal layer with large…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Axel Brandenburg , Koen Kemel , Nathan Kleeorin , Igor Rogachevskii

We have determined the physical mechanism responsible for the plasma instabilities, which was first found by Ramani and Laval (1978), associated with anisotropic velocity distributions induced by the temperature gradient in which there are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Nobuhiro Okabe , Makoto Hattori

We follow the ambipolar-diffusion--driven formation and evolution of a fragment in a magnetically supported molecular cloud, until a hydrostatic protostellar core forms at its center. This problem was formulated in Paper I. We determine the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Konstantinos Tassis , Telemachos Ch. Mouschovias

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

Determining the origin of turbulence in galaxy clusters, and quantifying its transport of heat, is an outstanding problem, with implications for our understanding of their thermodynamic history and structure. As the dilute plasma of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Lorenzo M. Perrone , Henrik Latter

Bipolar Light Bridges (BLBs) are bright regions located between sunspot umbrae of opposite magnetic polarity. They are typically characterized by strong magnetic fields and intense flows, which are believed to be closely associated with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-10 Fangfang Qiao , Hao Li , Jiasheng Wang , Yadan Duan , Zheng Sun , Leping Li

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

Using a radiation-hydrodynamics code I follow the formation of planetary nebulae around stars of different mass. Because a more massive central star evolves much faster than a lower mass one, it is to be expected that this will affect the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Garrelt Mellema

Two-component convection driven by both compositional and thermal buoyancy within the fluid core of a rapidly rotating planet produces a predominantly axial dipole field. In a dynamo driven by strong compositional buoyancy that by itself…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-31 Debarshi Majumder , Binod Sreenivasan

Observations of cool stars reveal dark spot-like features on their surfaces. Compared to sunspots, starspots can be bigger or cover a larger fraction of the stellar surface. While sunspots appear only at low latitudes, starspots are also…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-24 Rakesh K. Yadav , Thomas Gastine , Ulrich R. Christensen , Ansgar Reiners

The processes controlling the complex clump structure, phase distribution, and magnetic field geometry that develops across a broad range of scales in the turbulent interstellar medium remains unclear. Using unprecedentedly high resolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-01 Drummond B. Fielding , Bart Ripperda , Alexander A. Philippov

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

Penumbrae are the manifestation of magnetoconvection in highly inclined (to the vertical direction) magnetic field. The penumbra of a sunspot tends to form, initially, along the arc of the umbra antipodal to the main region of flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-28 David MacTaggart , Salvo Guglielmino , Francesca Zuccarello