Global-scale wreath-building dynamos in stellar convection zones

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作者
Brown, Benjamin P. [1 ,2 ]
Browning, Matthew K. [3 ]
Brun, Allan Sacha [4 ]
Miesch, Mark S. [5 ]
Toomre, Juri [6 ]
机构
[1] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Astron, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[2] Univ Wisconsin, Ctr Magnet Self Organizat, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[3] Univ Toronto, Canadian Inst Theoret Astrophys, Toronto, ON M5S 3H8, Canada
[4] Univ Paris, CNRS, CEA, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France
[5] Natl Ctr Atmospher Res, High Altitude Observ, Boulder, CO 80307 USA
[6] Univ Colorado, Joint Inst Lab Astrophys, Dept Astrophys & Planetary Sci, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
来源
ASTROPHYSICAL DYNAMICS: FROM STARS TO GALAXIES | 2011年 / 271期
基金
欧洲研究理事会; 美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
convection; MHD; stars: interiors; stars: magnetic fields; stars: rotation; TURBULENT CONVECTION; SOLAR CONVECTION; SIMULATIONS; ROTATION;
D O I
10.1017/S1743921311017479
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
When stars like our Sun are young they rotate rapidly and are very magnetically active. We explore dynamo action in rapidly rotating suns with the 3-D MHD anelastic spherical harmonic (ASH) code. The magnetic fields built in these dynamos are organized on global-scales into wreath-like structures that span the convection zone. Wreath-building dynamos can undergo quasi-cyclic reversals of polarity and such behavior is common in the parameter space we have been able to explore. These dynamos do not appear to require tachoclines to achieve their spatial or temporal organization. Wreath-building dynamos are present to some degree at all rotation rates, but are most evident in the more rapidly rotating simulations.
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