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Convective Pumping of Magnetic Fields: On the Flux Storage Problem for Solar-like Dynamos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2016

S. B. F. Dorch
Affiliation:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm Observatory, SE-13336 Saltsjöbaden, Sweden
Å. Nordlund
Affiliation:
The Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics, Juliane Maries Vej 30, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark

Abstract

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We present results from three-dimensional numerical simulations of the interaction of stratified over-turning solar-like convection with a large-scale magnetic field: By the very nature of stellar convection, even a strong magnetic field may be held down at the bottom of the convection zone, rendering the flux storage problem obsolete. This effect may also explain the observations of some magnetically active but fully convective late type dwarf stars.

Type
Session II: Convection Zone and Local Area Helioseismology
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001 

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