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Connecting solar radiance variability to the solar dynamo with the virial theorem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2005

Oskar Steiner
Oskar Steiner
Affiliation:
Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik, Schöneckstrasse 6, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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The variability of solar radiance over a solar cycle is thought to be a delicate balance between the radiative deficit of sunspots and the extra contribution of plage and network regions. Although the net effect is tiny, it must imply structural and thermal changes in the Sun or in partial layers of it as an unavoidable consequence of the virial theorem. Using the virial theorem for continua including the magnetic field it is shown, how solar radiance variability might be connected to a deeply seated flux-tube dynamo and how this connection is established on a hydrodynamical time-scale.To search for other articles by the author(s) go to: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html

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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 2004 , Issue IAUS223 , June 2004 , pp. 77 - 80
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© 2004 International Astronomical Union