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The Sun has a steady 11-year cycle in magnetic activity most well-known by the rising and falling in the occurrence of dark sunspots on the solar disk in visible bandpasses. The 11-year cycle is also manifest in the variations of emission…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-19 Ricky Egeland , Willie Soon , Sallie Baliunas , Jeffrey C. Hall , Alexei A. Pevtsov , Gregory W. Henry

It is widely accepted that astrophysical magnetic fields are generated by dynamo action. In many cases these fields exhibit organisation on a scale larger than that of the underlying turbulent flow (e.g., the eleven-year solar cycle). The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-03 Laura K. Currie , Steven M. Tobias

We demonstrate that a magneto-convection simulation incorporating essential physical processes governing solar surface convection exhibits turbulent small-scale dynamo action. By presenting a derivation of the energy balance equation and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-23 Jonathan Pietarila Graham , Robert Cameron , Manfred Schuessler

We study the connections between the sun's convection zone and the evolution of the solar wind and corona. We let the magnetic fields generated by a 2.5D axisymmetric kinematic dynamo code (STELEM) evolve in a 2.5D axisymmetric coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Rui F. Pinto , Allan Sacha Brun , Laurène Jouve , Roland Grappin

We review recent insights into the dynamics of the solar convection zone obtained from global numerical simulations, focusing on two recent developments in particular. The first is quasi-cyclic magnetic activity in a long-duration dynamo…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Mark S. Miesch , Benjamin P. Brown , Matthew K. Browning , Allan Sacha Brun , Juri Toomre

The Sun, aside from its eleven year sunspot cycle is additionally subject to long term variation in its activity. In this work we analyse a solar-like convective dynamo simulation, containing approximately 60 magnetic cycles, exhibiting…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-11 Frederick A. Gent , Maarit J. Käpylä , Jörn Warnecke

Magnetic activity is a ubiquitous feature of stars with convective outer layers, with implications from stellar evolution to planetary atmospheres. Investigating the mechanisms responsible for the observed stellar activity signals from days…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-17 Emre Işık , Jennifer L. van Saders , Ansgar Reiners , Travis S. Metcalfe

Context: Convectively-driven flows play a crucial role in the dynamo processes that are responsible for producing magnetic activity in stars and planets. It is still not fully understood why many astrophysical magnetic fields have a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-09 P. J. Bushby , P. J. Käpylä , Y. Masada , A. Brandenburg , B. Favier , C. Guervilly , M. J. Käpylä

Nonlinear mean-field models of the solar dynamo show long-term variability, which may be relevant to different states of activity inferred from long-term radiocarbon data. This paper is aimed to probe the dynamo hysteresis predicted by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-24 Bidya Binay Karak , Leonid L. Kitchatinov , Axel Brandenburg

The scale separation approximation, which is in the base of the solar mean field dynamo models, can be hardly justified both by observations and theoretical applications to astrophysical dynamos.{ The general expression for the mean…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 V. V. Pipin

Parameters of magnetic activity on the solar type stars depend on the properties of the dynamo processes operating in stellar convection zones. We apply nonlinear mean-field axisymmetric $\alpha^2\Omega$ dynamo models to calculate of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-08 V. V. Pipin

Simulations of magnetohydrodynamics convection in slowly rotating stars predict anti-solar differential rotation (DR) in which the equator rotates slower than poles. This anti-solar DR in the usual $\alpha \Omega$ dynamo model does not…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-01 Bidya Binay Karak , Aparna Tomar , Vindya Vashishth

Observations of sun-like stars rotating faster than our current sun tend to exhibit increased magnetic activity as well as magnetic cycles spanning multiple years. Using global simulations in spherical shells to study the coupling of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Nicholas J. Nelson , Benjamin P. Brown , Matthew K. Browning , Allan Sacha Brun , Mark S. Miesch , Juri Toomre

The record of solar activity is reviewed here with emphasis on peculiarities. Since sunspot positions tell us a lot more about the solar dynamo than the various global sunspot numbers, we first focus on the records of telescopic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 R. Arlt , N. Weiss

In this work, we have studied the variability and frequency of occurrence of the grand minima using kinematic dynamo models of one solar mass star with different rotation rates and depths of convection zones. We specify the large-scale…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-06 Vindya Vashishth

The Sun and solar-type stars exhibit irregular cyclic variations in their magnetic activity over long time scales. To understand this irregularity, we employed the flux transport dynamo models to investigate the behavior of one solar mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-25 Vindya Vashishth

The solar dynamo problem is the question of how the cyclic variation in the solar magnetic field is maintained. One of the important processes is the transport of magnetic flux by surface convection. To reveal this process, the dependence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-07 Y. Iida

Many stars exhibit strong magnetic fields, some of which are thought to be of primordial origin and others a sign of magnetic dynamo processes. We briefly review the results of observational studies of solar-type stars seeking to evaluate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Allan Sacha Brun

Manifestations of the solar magnetic activity through periodicities of about 11 and 2 years are now clearly seen in all solar activity indices.In this paper, we add information about the mechanism driving the 2 year period by studying the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 R. Simoniello , K. Jain , S. C. Tripathy , S. Turck-Chieze , C. Baldner , W. Finsterle , F. Hill , M. Roth

The 3-D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Anelastic Spherical Harmonic (ASH) code, using slope-limited diffusion, is employed to capture convective and dynamo processes achieved in a global-scale stellar convection simulation for a model solar-mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-26 Kyle Augustson , Allan Sacha Brun , Mark Miesch , Juri Toomre