Dynamo action in simulations of penetrative solar convection with an imposed tachocline

Details Dynamo action in simulations of penetrative solar convection with an imposed tachocline Dynamo action in simulations of penetrative solar convection with an imposed tachocline

Dec 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007an....328.1100b&link_type=abstract

Astronomische Nachrichten, Vol.328, Issue 10, p.1100

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

7

Convection, Magnetohydrodynamics (Mhd), Sun: Magnetic Fields, Turbulence

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We summarize new and continuing three-dimensional spherical shell simulations of dynamo action by convection allowed to penetrate downward into a tachocline of rotational shear. The inclusion of an imposed tachocline allows us to examine several processes believed to be essential in the operation of the global solar dynamo, including differential rotation, magnetic pumping, and the stretching and organization of fields within the tachocline. In the stably stratified core, our simulations reveal that strong axisymmetric magnetic fields (of ˜ 3000 G strength) can be built, and that those fields generally exhibit a striking antisymmetric parity, with fields in the northern hemisphere largely of opposite polarity to those in the southern hemisphere. In the convection zone above, fluctuating fields dominate over weaker mean fields. New calculations indicate that the tendency toward toroidal fields of antisymmetric parity is relatively insensitive to initial magnetic field configurations; they also reveal that on decade-long timescales, the magnetic fields can briefly enter (and subsequently emerge from) states of symmetric parity. We have not yet observed any overall reversals of the field polarity, nor systematic latitudinal propagation.

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