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To understand solar and stellar dynamos combining local and global numerical modelling with long-term observations is a challenging task: even with state of the art computational methods and resources, the stellar parameter regime remains…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-08 M. Viviani , A. Prabhu , J. Warnecke , L. Duarte , J. Pekkilä , M. Rheinhardt , M. J. Käpylä

In 1844 Schwabe discovered that the number of sunspots increased and decreased over a period of about 11 years, that variation became known as the sunspot cycle. Almost eighty years later, Hale described the nature of the Sun's magnetic…

Aims. In this study, we analyse the magnetic field properties of a set of 15 global magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations of solar-type star dynamos conducted using the ASH code. Our objective is to enhance our understanding of these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-14 Quentin Noraz , Allan Sacha Brun , Antoine Strugarek

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 geo and solar magnetic fields have long been thought to be very different objects both in terms of spatial structure and temporal behavior. The recently discovered field structure of a fully convective star is more reminiscent of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-30 Laure Goudard , Emmanuel Dormy

Inertial modes have been observed on the Sun at low longitudinal wavenumbers. These modes probe the dynamics and structure of the solar convection zone down to the tachocline. While linear analysis allows the complex eigenfrequencies and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 J. Philidet , L. Gizon

We study the effects of different descriptions of the solar surface convection on the eigenfrequencies of p-modes. 1-D evolution calculations of the whole Sun and 3-D hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the current surface…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Laurent Piau , Remo Collet , Robert F. Stein , Regner Trampedach , Pierre Morel , Sylvaine Turck-Chieze

In a Dynamic Solar Model (DSM) the temperature dependences of the pp cycle neutrinos will be different from the ones determined by solar model calculations with the luminosity constraint. Instead of the usual neutrino fluxes pp ~ T^{-1/2},…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Attila Grandpierre

The solar cycle is a complex phenomenon. To comprehensively understand it, we have to study various tracers. The most important component of this complex is the solar dynamo, which is understood as self-excitation of the solar magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-10 V. N. Obridko , A. S. Shibalova , D. D. Sokoloff

This paper introduces a new empirical model for the rotational evolution of Sun-like stars -- those with surface convection zones and non-convective interior regions. Previous models do not match the morphology of observed (rotation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Timothy M. Brown

In this paper, written as a general historical and technical introduction to the various review papers collected in the special issue ``Solar and Stellar Dynamo: A New Era'', we review the evolution and current state of dynamo theory and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Paul Charbonneau , Dmitry Sokoloff

Recent findings of helioseismology as well as advances in direct numerical simulations of global dynamics of the Sun have indicated that in each solar hemisphere the meridional circulation forms the two cells along the in the convection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 V. V. Pipin , A. G. Kosovichev

We quantify possible differences between turbulent dynamo action in the Sun and the dynamo action studied in idealized simulations. For this purpose we compare Fourier-space shell-to-shell energy transfer rates of three incrementally more…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-08 R. Moll , J. Pietarila Graham , J. Pratt , R. H. Cameron , W. -C. Müller , M. Schüssler

Our theoretical and numerical analysis have suggested that for low-mass main sequences stars (of the spectral classes from M5 to G0) rotating much faster than the Sun, the generated large-scale magnetic field is caused by the mean-field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-19 N. Kleeorin , I. Rogachevskii , N. Safiullin , R. Gershberg , S. Porshnev

We summarize the fifty-year concerted effort to place the "activity" of the Sun in the context of the stars. As a working definition of solar activity in the context of stars, we adopt those globally-observable variations on time scales…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Philip G. Judge , Michael J. Thompson

The large-scale magnetic field in the Sun varies with a period of approximately 22 years, although the amplitude of the cycle is subject to long-term modulation with recurrent phases of significantly reduced magnetic activity. It is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Laura Cole , Paul Bushby

This chapter provides an overview of the magnetic activity of the Sun and stars, discussing its underlying physical origin, manifestations, and fundamental role in exoplanet studies. It begins with a summary of the Sun's magnetic activity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-06 S. Bellotti , J. Morin

The turbulent magnetic diffusivity in the solar convection zone is one of the most poorly constrained ingredients of mean-field dynamo models. This lack of constraint has previously led to controversy regarding the most appropriate set of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Andrés Muñoz-Jaramillo , Dibyendu Nandy , Petrus C. H. Martens

Recent data from the Kepler mission has revealed the occurrence of superflares in sun-like stars which exceed by far any observed solar flares in release of energy. A natural idea is that the dynamo mechanism in superflaring stars differs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 M. M. Katsova , L. L. Kitchatinov , M. A. Livshits , D. L. Moss , D. D. Sokoloff , I. G. Usoskin

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