Storage and Equilibrium of Toroidal Magnetic Fields in the Solar Tachocline: A Comparison between MHD Shallow-Water and Full MHD Approaches

Details Storage and Equilibrium of Toroidal Magnetic Fields in the Solar Tachocline: A Comparison between MHD Shallow-Water and Full MHD Approaches Storage and Equilibrium of Toroidal Magnetic Fields in the Solar Tachocline: A Comparison between MHD Shallow-Water and Full MHD Approaches

Feb 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003apj...584..524r&link_type=abstract

The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 584, Issue 1, pp. 524-527.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Magnetohydrodynamics: Mhd, Sun: Interior, Sun: Magnetic Fields

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Recently Dikpati & Gilman have shown, using a shallow-water model of the solar tachocline that allows the top surface to deform, that a tachocline with the observed broad differential rotation and a strong toroidal field is prolate. A strong toroidal field ring requires extra mass on its poleward side to provide a hydrostatic latitudinal pressure gradient to balance the poleward curvature stress. In a parallel study using a different approach, Rempel, Schüssler, & Tóth have shown that such a latitudinal pressure gradient is found in a strongly subadiabatic stratification, whereas a weakly subadiabatic stratification leads to a complementary equilibrium state of the overshoot tachocline in which the magnetic curvature stress is balanced by a prograde rotational jet inside the toroidal ring. We show that the shallow-water model with height deformation is a first-order approach to the equilibrium state found by Rempel, Schüssler, & Tóth for a strongly subadiabatic stratification. We also show that the shallow-water model can be generalized to allow for the equilibrium state found for a weakly subadiabatic stratification by suppressing the shell deformation associated with the toroidal field and allowing the differential rotation to be modified.

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