Magnetic helicity fluxes and their effect on stellar dynamos

Details Magnetic helicity fluxes and their effect on stellar dynamos Magnetic helicity fluxes and their effect on stellar dynamos

2011-11-08

arxiv.org/abs/1111.2023v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

5 pages, 6 figures, proceedings of IAU Symp. 286, Comparative Magnetic Minima: characterizing quiet times in the Sun and stars

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Magnetic helicity fluxes in turbulently driven alpha^2 dynamos are studied to demonstrate their ability to alleviate catastrophic quenching. A one-dimensional mean-field formalism is used to achieve magnetic Reynolds numbers of the order of 10^5. We study both diffusive magnetic helicity fluxes through the mid-plane as well as those resulting from the recently proposed alternate dynamic quenching formalism. By adding shear we make a parameter scan for the critical values of the shear and forcing parameters for which dynamo action occurs. For this $\alpha\Omega$ dynamo we find that the preferred mode is antisymmetric about the mid-plane. This is also verified in 3-D direct numerical simulations.

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