Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-10-11
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
revision, (add comment about effect of nonlinear diffusivity): 18 pages, 7 Figures, submitted to Physica Scripta
Scientific paper
We study the possibility to reproduce the statistical relations of the sunspot activity cycle, like the so-called Waldmeier relations, the cycle period - amplitude and the cycle rise rate - amplitude relations, by means of the mean field dynamo models with the fluctuating \alpha-effect. The dynamo model includes the long-term fluctuations of the \alpha-effect and two types of the nonlinear feedback of the mean-field on the \alpha-effect including the algebraic quenching and the dynamic quenching due to the magnetic helicity generation. We found that the models are able to reproduce qualitatively and quantitatively the inclination and dispersion across the Waldmeier relations with the 20% fluctuations of the \alpha-effect. The models with the dynamic quenching are in a better agreement with observations than the models with the algebraic \alpha-quenching. We compare the statistical distributions of the modeled parameters, like the amplitude, period, the rise and decay rates of the sunspot cycles, with observations.
Pipin Valery V.
Sokoloff Dimitry
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