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Solar Internal Rotation, the Boundary Layer Dynamo and Latitude Distribution of Activity Belts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

G. Belvedere ,
M.R.E. Proctor  and
G. Lanzafame
G. Belvedere
Affiliation:
Istituto di Astronomia, Università di Catania, Italy
M.R.E. Proctor
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, England
G. Lanzafame
Affiliation:
Istituto di Astronomia, Università di Catania, Italy

Abstract

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We suggest that the latitude distribution of solar activity belts and the related equatorward or poleward migration of different tracers of the solar cycle are a natural consequence of the internal radial profile of angular velocity via the working of a dynamo in the boundary layer beneath the convection zone. This has been confirmed by the results of a non-linear dynamo model in a very thin spherical shell which show that dynamo action may reasonably take place in the boundary layer and reproduce the observed surface phenomenology.

Extending the argument to late main-sequence stars, it is reasonable to think that observations of the latitude distribution and migration of stellar active regions by current sophisticated techniques may make it possible to infer their internal rotation profile in a simple and direct way.

Type
Part III Solar magnetism and large-scale flows
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 130: The Sun and Cool Stars: activity, magnetism, dynamos , 1991 , pp. 237 - 240
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1991

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