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We present the first results from three-dimensional spherical shell simulations of magnetic dynamo action realized by turbulent convection penetrating downward into a tachocline of rotational shear. This permits us to assess several…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Matthew Browning , Mark S. Miesch , Allan Sacha Brun , Juri Toomre

An update is given on the current status of solar and stellar dynamos. At present, it is still unclear why stellar cycle frequencies increase with rotation frequency in such a way that their ratio increases with stellar activity. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Axel Brandenburg

We investigate dynamo action in global compressible solar-like convective dynamos in the framework of mean-field theory. We simulate a solar-type star in a wedge-shaped spherical shell, where the interplay between convection and rotation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-17 Jörn Warnecke , Matthias Rheinhardt , S. Tuomisto , Petri J. Käpylä , Maarit J. Käpylä , Axel Brandenburg

Magnetic fields can be created in stably stratified (non-convective) layers in a differentially rotating star. A magnetic instability in the toroidal field (wound up by differential rotation) replaces the role of convection in closing the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. C. Spruit

Increasing evidence is becoming available about not only the surface differential rotation of rapidly rotating cool stars but, in a small number of cases, also about temporal variations, which possibly are analogous to the solar torsional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Covas , D. Moss , R. Tavakol

The profile of the differential rotation together with the sign of the alpha-effect determine the dynamo wave direction. In early models of the solar dynamo the dynamo wave often leads to a poleward migration of the activity belts. Flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Detlef Elstner , Yori Fournier , Rainer Arlt

We present results of convective turbulent dynamo simulations including a coronal layer in a spherical wedge. We find an equatorward migration of the radial and azimuthal fields similar to the behavior of sunspots during the solar cycle.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-13 Jörn Warnecke , Petri J. Käpylä , Maarit. J. Mantere , Axel Brandenburg

We consider a dynamo wave in the solar convective shell for the kinematic $\alpha\omega$-dynamo model. The spectrum and eigenfunctions of the corresponding equations are derived analytically with the aid of the WKB method. Our main aim here…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Victor Galitski , D. D. Sokoloff

Global and semi-global convective dynamo simulations of solar-like stars are known to show a transition from an anti-solar (fast poles, slow equator) to solar-like (fast equator, slow poles) differential rotation (DR) for increasing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-25 M. Viviani , M. J. Käpylä , J. Warnecke , P. J. Käpylä , M. Rheinhardt

We present a finite-difference micromagnetic approach for determining the normal modes of spin-waves propagating in extended magnetic films and strips, which is based on the linearized Landau-Lifshitz equation and uses the dynamic matrix…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-21 Yves Henry , Olga Gladii , Matthieu Bailleul

Arguments for and against the widely accepted picture of a solar dynamo being seated in the tachocline are reviewed and alternative ideas concerning dynamos operating in the bulk of the convection zone, or perhaps even in the near-surface…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Axel Brandenburg

We propose collisionless damping of fast MHD waves as an important mechanism for the heating and acceleration of winds from rotating stars. Stellar rotation causes magnetic field lines anchored at the surface to form a spiral pattern and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-24 T. K. Suzuki , H. Yan , A. Lazarian , J. P. Cassinelli

We present results from simulations of rotating magnetized turbulent convection in spherical wedge geometry representing parts of the latitudinal and longitudinal extents of a star. Here we consider a set of runs for which the density…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-19 Petri J. Käpylä , Maarit. J. Mantere , Elizabeth Cole , Jörn Warnecke , Axel Brandenburg

We present results from four convectively-driven stellar dynamo simulations in spherical wedge geometry. All of these simulations produce cyclic and migrating mean magnetic fields. Through detailed comparisons we show that the migration…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-01 Jörn Warnecke , Petri J. Käpylä , Maarit J. Käpylä , Axel Brandenburg

We present detailed numerical calculations of the fast solar tachocline based on the assumption that the dynamo field dominates over the dynamics of the tachocline. In the present paper of the series, we focus on three shortfalls of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Forgacs-Dajka

Core convection and dynamo activity deep within rotating A-type stars of 2 solar masses are studied with 3--D nonlinear simulations. Our modeling considers the inner 30% by radius of such stars, thus capturing within a spherical domain the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Allan Sacha Brun , Matthew K. Browning , Juri Toomre

A convection-driven MHD dynamo in a rotating spherical shell, with clearly defined structural elements in the flow and magnetic field, is simulated numerically. Such dynamos can be called deterministic, in contrast to those explicitly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. V. Getling , R. D. Simitev , F. H. Busse

We investigate the build-up of the galactic dynamo and subsequently the origin of a magnetic driven outflow. We use a setup of an isolated disc galaxy with a realistic circum-galactic medium (CGM). We find good agreement of the galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-01 Ulrich P. Steinwandel , Klaus Dolag , Harald Lesch , Benjamin P. Moster , Andreas Burkert , Almudena Prieto

Surface waves process the turbulent disturbances which drive dynamics in many space, astrophysical and laboratory plasma systems, with the outer boundary of Earth's magnetosphere, the magnetopause, providing an accessible environment to…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-10-07 M. O. Archer , M. D. Hartinger , F. Plaschke , D. J. Southwood , L. Rastaetter

Though generated deep inside the convection zone, the solar magnetic field has a direct impact on the Earth space environment via the Parker spiral. It strongly modulates the solar wind in the whole heliosphere, especially its latitudinal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Barbara Perri , Allan Sacha Brun , Antoine Strugarek , Victor Réville