Turbulent magnetic pumping in a Babcock-Leighton solar dynamo model

Details Turbulent magnetic pumping in a Babcock-Leighton solar dynamo model Turbulent magnetic pumping in a Babcock-Leighton solar dynamo model

2008-03-24

arxiv.org/abs/0803.3466v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:200809351

The turbulent pumping effect corresponds to the transport of magnetic flux due to the presence of density and turbulence gradients in convectively unstable layers. In the induction equation it appears as an advective term and for this reason it is expected to be important in the solar and stellar dynamo processes. In this work, we have explored the effects of the turbulent pumping in a flux-dominated Babcock-Leighton solar dynamo model with a solar-like rotation law. The results reveal the importance of the pumping mechanism for solving current limitations in mean field dynamo modeling such as the storage of the magnetic flux and the latitudinal distribution of the sunspots. In the case that a meridional flow is assumed to be present only in the upper part of the convective zone, it is the full turbulent pumping that regulates both the period of the solar cycle and the latitudinal distribution of the sunspots activity.

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