Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Oct 1997
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997apj...488..443l&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal v.488, p.443
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Magnetohydrodynamics: Mhd, Stars: Magnetic Fields, Stars: Rotation, Sun: Sunspots
Scientific paper
A set of dynamical equations are derived for a slender tube of isolated magnetic flux generalizing a model due to Spruit. The tube is assumed to consist of field lines that twist about the tube's axis at some rate q. The equations describe the evolution of the axis and the evolution of the twist. They include the interaction between twist and motions of the axis described as writhing. Through this interaction, the motion of the axis can introduce twist into a previously untwisted tube. The twist so introduced will have a sign opposite to the local handedness of the axial curve. This may be important for the generation of current in emerging active regions. Tubes with sufficiently large twist are subject to an instability that distorts the axis into a helix of pitch similar to the tubes' field lines. Such an instability might be responsible for the observed morphology in delta -spots on the Sun.
Klapper Isaac
Longcope Dana Warfield
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