Solar Cycle Variation of the Rotation of the Large-Scale Magnetic Field of the Sun

Author(s):  
Y. Kozuka ◽  
M. Kojima ◽  
T. Saito
1998 ◽  
Vol 167 ◽  
pp. 493-496
Author(s):  
Dmitri I. Ponyavin

AbstractA technique is used to restore the magnetic field of the Sun viewed as star from the filament distribution seen on Hα photographs. For this purpose synoptic charts of the large-scale magnetic field reconstructed by the McIntosh method have been compared with the Sun-asstar solar magnetic field observed at Stanford. We have established a close association between the Sun-as-star magnetic field and the mean magnetic field inferred from synoptic magnetic field maps. A filtering technique was applied to find correlations between the Sun-as-star and large-scale magnetic field distributions during the course of a solar cycle. The correlations found were then used to restore the Sun-as-star magnetic field and its evolution in the late 1950s and 1960s, when such measurements of the field were not being made. A stackplot display of the inferred data reveals large-scale magnetic field organization and evolution. Patterns of the Sun-as-star magnetic field during solar cycle 19 were obtained. The proposed technique can be useful for studying the solar magnetic field structure and evolution during times with no direct observations.


1991 ◽  
Vol 130 ◽  
pp. 213-217
Author(s):  
V.I. Makarov ◽  
K.R. Sivaraman

Abstract The global solar cycle is considered as an interaction of 3 types of activity: at low-latitude (sunspots), at high-latitude (polar faculae) and the weak magnetic field. The properties of single and 3-fold reversals of the polar magnetic field are considered. The variation spectrum of the large-scale magnetic field of the Sun is analyzed in the range of 1–30 nHz. A dependence between the rate of a poleward meridional flow and phase of the global cycle is discussed.


2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (S328) ◽  
pp. 237-239
Author(s):  
A. A. Vidotto

AbstractSynoptic maps of the vector magnetic field have routinely been made available from stellar observations and recently have started to be obtained for the solar photospheric field. Although solar magnetic maps show a multitude of details, stellar maps are limited to imaging large-scale fields only. In spite of their lower resolution, magnetic field imaging of solar-type stars allow us to put the Sun in a much more general context. However, direct comparison between stellar and solar magnetic maps are hampered by their dramatic differences in resolution. Here, I present the results of a method to filter out the small-scale component of vector fields, in such a way that comparison between solar and stellar (large-scale) magnetic field vector maps can be directly made. This approach extends the technique widely used to decompose the radial component of the solar magnetic field to the azimuthal and meridional components as well, and is entirely consistent with the description adopted in several stellar studies. This method can also be used to confront synoptic maps synthesised in numerical simulations of dynamo and magnetic flux transport studies to those derived from stellar observations.


2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (A29A) ◽  
pp. 360-364
Author(s):  
Rim Fares

AbstractIn Sun-like stars, magnetic fields are generated in the outer convective layers. They shape the stellar environment, from the photosphere to planetary orbits. Studying the large-scale magnetic field of those stars enlightens our understanding of the field properties and gives us observational constraints for field generation dynamo models. It also sheds light on how “normal” the Sun is among Sun-like stars. In this contribution, I will review the field properties of Sun-like stars, focusing on solar twins and planet hosting stars. I will discuss the observed large-scale magnetic cycles, compare them to stellar activity cycles, and link that to what we know about the Sun. I will also discuss the effect of large-scale stellar fields on exoplanets, exoplanetary emissions (e.g. radio), and habitability.


1991 ◽  
Vol 130 ◽  
pp. 187-189
Author(s):  
V.N. Krivodubskij ◽  
A.E. Dudorov ◽  
A.A. Ruzmaikin ◽  
T.V. Ruzmaikina

Analysis of the fine structure of the solar oscillations has enabled us to determine the internal rotation of the Sun and to estimate the magnitude of the large-scale magnetic field inside the Sun. According to the data of Duvall et al. (1984), the core of the Sun rotates about twice as fast as the solar surface. Recently Dziembowski et al. (1989) have showed that there is a sharp radial gradient in the Sun’s rotation at the base of the convection zone, near the boundary with the radiative interior. It seems to us that the sharp radial gradients of the angular velocity near the core of the Sun and at the base of the convection zone, acting on the relict poloidal magnetic field Br, must excite an intense toroidal field Bф, that can compensate for the loss of the magnetic field due to magnetic buoyancy.


2012 ◽  
Vol 755 (1) ◽  
pp. 79 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Mullan ◽  
J. MacDonald ◽  
M. C. Rabello-Soares

2000 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. N. Obridko ◽  
B. D. Shel'ting

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