The solar dynamo: old, recent, and new problems

Details The solar dynamo: old, recent, and new problems The solar dynamo: old, recent, and new problems

2000-11-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0011579v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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8 pages, 4 figs, IAU 203 proceedings (Recent Insights into the Physics of the Sun and Heliosphere: Highlights from SOHO and Ot

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A number of problems of solar and stellar dynamo theory are briefly reviewed and the current status of possible solutions is discussed. Results of direct numerical simulations are described in view of mean-field dynamo theory and the relation between the alpha-effect and the inverse cascade of magnetic helicity is highlighted. The possibility of `catastrophic' quenching of the alpha-effect is explained in terms of the constraint placed by the conservation of magnetic helicity.

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