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The Solar Dynamo: Old, Recent, and New Problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2016

A. Brandenburg
A. Brandenburg*
Affiliation:
NORDITA, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark; and Department of Mathematics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK

Abstract

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A number of problems of solar and stellar dynamo theory are briefly reviewed and the current status of possible solutions is discussed. Results of direct numerical simulations are described in view of mean-field dynamo theory and the relation between the α-effect and the inverse cascade of magnetic helicity is highlighted. The possibility of ‘catastrophic’ quenching of the α-effect is explained in terms of the constraint placed by the conservation of magnetic helicity.

Type
Session II: Convection Zone and Local Area Helioseismology
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 203: Recent Insights into the Physics of the Sun and Heliosphere: Highlights from Soho and Other Space Missions , 2001 , pp. 144 - 151
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001 

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