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The leading theoretical paradigm for the Sun's magnetic cycle is an $\alpha\omega$-dynamo process, in which a combination of differential rotation and turbulent, helical flows produces a large-scale magnetic field that reverses every 11…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-16 Craig D. Duguid , Paul J. Bushby , Toby S. Wood

The paper presents a study of a solar dynamo model operating in the bulk of the convection zone with the toroidal magnetic field flux concentrated in the subsurface rotational shear layer. We explore how this type of dynamo may depend on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 V. V. Pipin , A. G. Kosovichev

The structure and dynamics of the solar corona is dominated by the magnetic field. In most areas in the corona magnetic forces are so dominant that all non-magnetic forces like plasma pressure gradient and gravity can be neglected in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Thomas Wiegelmann , Takashi Sakurai

We provide a synthesis model demonstrating the "fast dynamo" action of the Sun. The latter is essentially accomplished via two toroidal structures presumably formed in the tachocline and placed symmetrically with respect to the equatorial…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-08-03 D. V. Sarafopoulos

We present results of two simulations of the convection zone, obtained by solving the full hydrodynamic equations in a section of a spherical shell. The first simulation has cylindrical rotation contours (parallel to the rotation axis) and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Francis J. Robinson , Kwing L. Chan

Arguments are presented in favor of the idea that the solar dynamo may operate not just at the bottom of the convection zone, i.e. in the tachocline, but it may operate in a more distributed fashion in the entire convection zone. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Axel Brandenburg

[Abridged] Bipolar magnetic regions are formed when loops of magnetic flux emerge at the solar photosphere. Our aim is to investigate the flux emergence process in a simulation of granular convection. In particular we aim to determine the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-09 Paul J Bushby , Vasilis Archontis

We investigate the long-term evolution of an initially buoyant magnetic flux tube emerging into a gravitationally-stratified coronal hole environment and report on the resulting oscillations and outflows. We perform 2.5D nonlinear numerical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-02 J. A. McLaughlin , G. Verth , V. Fedun , R. Erdélyi

The possible role of magneto-rotational instability (MRI) and its driven MHD turbulence in the solar interior is studied on the basis of the linear and nonlinear theories coupling with physical parameters, providing solar rotation profile…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Youhei Masada

We adopted an unstructured hydrodynamical solver CharLES to the problem of global convection in the Sun. With the aim to investigate the properties of solar turbulent convection and reproduce differential rotation pattern. We performed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-24 Vyacheslav Olshevsky , Chunlei Liang , Frank Ham

The first consistent model for the turbulent tachocline is presented, with the turbulent diffusivity computed within the model instead of being specified arbitrarily. For the origin of the 3D turbulence a new mechanism is proposed. Owing to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 K. Petrovay

The possibility of non-axisimmetric (kink) instabilities of a toroidal field seated in the tachocline is much discussed in the literature. In this work, the basic properties of kink and quasi-interchange instabilities, produced by mixed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Alfio Bonanno

Transport by meridional flows has significant consequences for stellar evolution, but is difficult to capture in global-scale numerical simulations because of the wide range of timescales involved. Stellar evolution models therefore usually…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-22 Toby S. Wood , Nicholas H. Brummell

Helioseismic inversions for the rotation rate have established the presence of a tachocline near the base of the solar convection zone. We show that the tachocline produces a characteristic oscillatory signature in the splitting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Anwesh Mazumdar , H. M. Antia

Helioseismology shows that the regions occupied by convection and differential rotation inside the sun almost coincide. This supports the leading theoretical concept for the origin of differential rotation as a result of interaction between…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-12 L. L. Kitchatinov

The chromosphere in internetwork regions of the quiet Sun was regarded as a static and homogeneous layer for a long time. Thanks to advances in observations and numerical modelling, the wave nature of these atmospheric regions received…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Sven Wedemeyer-Böhm

The global-scale interior magnetic field needed to account for the Sun's observed differential rotation can be effective only if confined below the convection zone in all latitudes, including the polar caps. Axisymmetric nonlinear MHD…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Toby S. Wood , Michael E. McIntyre

Toroidal modes in the form of so-called Hopfions, with two independent winding numbers, a hidden one (twist, s), which characterizes a circular vortex thread embedded into a three-dimensional soliton, and the vorticity around the vertical…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-23 Y. V. Kartashov , B. A. Malomed , Y. Shnir , L. Torner

A single open magnetic flux tube spanning the solar photosphere (solar radius R) and the lower corona (R + 10 Mm) is modelled in magnetohydrostatic equilibrium within a realistic stratified atmosphere subject to solar gravity. Such flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-16 Frederick Armstrong Gent , Viktor Fedun , Stuart John Mumford , Robertus Erdelyi

Can atmospheric waves in planet-hosting solar-like stars substantially resonate to tidal forcing? Substantially at a level of impacting the space weather or even of being dynamo-relevant? In particular, low-frequency Rossby waves, which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-22 G. M. Horstmann , G. Mamatsashvili , A. Giesecke , T. V. Zaqarashvili , F. Stefani