RAPIDLY ROTATING SUNS AND ACTIVE NESTS OF CONVECTION

被引:120
作者
Brown, Benjamin P. [1 ,2 ]
Browning, Matthew K. [3 ]
Brun, Allan Sacha [4 ,5 ]
Miesch, Mark S. [6 ]
Toomre, Juri [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Colorado, JILA, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[2] Univ Colorado, Dept Astrophys & Planetary Sci, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[3] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Astron, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[4] CEA Saclay, DSM IRFU SAP, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France
[5] Univ Paris 07, CNRS, CEA, UMR AIM, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France
[6] High Altitude Observ, Boulder, CO 80307 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
convection; stars: interiors; stars: rotation; Sun: interior; Sun: rotation;
D O I
10.1086/592397
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
In the solar convection zone, rotation couples with intensely turbulent convection to drive a strong differential rotation and achieve complex magnetic dynamo action. Our Sun must have rotated more rapidly in its past, as is suggested by observations of many rapidly rotating young solar-type stars. Here we explore the effects of more rapid rotation on the global-scale patterns of convection in such stars and the flows of differential rotation and meridional circulation, which are self-consistently established. The convection in these systems is richly time-dependent, and in our most rapidly rotating suns a striking pattern of localized convection emerges. Convection near the equator in these systems is dominated by one or two nests in longitude of locally enhanced convection, with quiescent streaming flow in between them at the highest rotation rates. These active nests of convection maintain a strong differential rotation despite their small size. The structure of differential rotation is similar in all of our more rapidly rotating suns, with fast equators and slower poles. We find that the total shear in differential rotation Delta Omega grows with more rapid rotation, while the relative shear Delta Omega/Omega(0) decreases. In contrast, at more rapid rotation, the meridional circulations decrease in energy and peak velocities and break into multiple cells of circulation in both radius and latitude.
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页码:1354 / 1372
页数:19
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