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1.
K. Petrovay 《Solar physics》2003,215(1):17-30
The first consistent model for the turbulent tachocline is presented, with the turbulent diffusivity computed within the model instead of being specified arbitrarily. For the origin of the 3D turbulence a new mechanism is proposed. Owing to the strongly stable stratification, the mean radial shear is stable, while the horizontal shear is expected to drive predominantly horizontal, quasi-2D motions in thin slabs. Here I suggest that a major source of 3D overturning turbulent motions in the tachocline is the secondary shear instability due to the strong, random vertical shear arising between the uncorrelated horizontal flows in neighboring slabs. A formula for the vertical diffusivity due to this turbulence, Equation (9), is derived and applied in a simplified 1D model of the tachocline. It is found that Maxwell stresses due to an oscillatory poloidal magnetic field of a few hundred gauss are able to confine the tachocline to a thickness less than 5 Mm. The integral scale of the 3D overturning turbulence is the buoyancy scale, on the order of 10 km, and its velocity amplitude is a few m s–1, yielding a vertical turbulent diffusivity on the order of 108 cm2 s–1. 相似文献
2.
Guided by the recent observational result that the meridional circulation of the Sun becomes weaker at the time of the sunspot
maximum, we have included a parametric quenching of the meridional circulation in solar dynamo models such that the meridional
circulation becomes weaker when the magnetic field at the base of the convection zone is stronger. We find that a flux transport
solar dynamo tends to become unstable on including this quenching of meridional circulation if the diffusivity in the convection
zone is less than about 2×1011 cm2 s−1. The quenching of α, however, has a stabilizing effect and it is possible to stabilize a dynamo with low diffusivity with sufficiently strong
α-quenching. For dynamo models with high diffusivity, the quenching of meridional circulation does not produce a large effect
and the dynamo remains stable. We present a solar-like solution from a dynamo model with diffusivity 2.8×1012 cm2 s−1 in which the quenching of meridional circulation makes the meridional circulation vary periodically with solar cycle as observed
and does not have any other significant effect on the dynamo. 相似文献
3.
Using nine years of solar wind plasma and magnetic field data from the Wind mission, we investigated the characteristics of both magnetic clouds (MCs) and magnetic cloud-like structures (MCLs) during
1995 – 2003. A MCL structure is an event that is identified by an automatic scheme (Lepping, Wu, and Berdichevsky, Ann. Geophys.
23, 2687, 2005) with the same criteria as for a MC, but it is not usually identifiable as a flux rope by using the MC (Burlaga et al., J. Geophys. Res.
86, 6673, 1981) fitting model developed by Lepping, Jones, and Burlaga (Geophys. Res. Lett.
95(11), 957, 1990). The average occurrence rate is 9.5 for MCs and 13.6 for MCLs per year for the overall period of interest, and there were
82 MCs and 122 MCLs identified during this period. The characteristics of MCs and MCL structures are as follows: (1) The average
duration, Δt, of MCs is 21.1 h, which is 40% longer than that for MCLs (Δt=15 h); (2) the average
(minimum B
z
found in MC/MCL measured in geocentric solar ecliptic coordinates) is −10.2 nT for MCs and −6 nT for MCLs; (3) the average
Dstmin (minimum Dst caused by MCs/MCLs) is −82 nT for MCs and −37 nT for MCLs; (4) the average solar wind velocity is 453 km s−1 for MCs and 413 km s−1 for MCLs; (5) the average thermal speed is 24.6 km s−1 for MCs and 27.7 km s−1 for MCLs; (6) the average magnetic field intensity is 12.7 nT for MCs and 9.8 nT for MCLs; (7) the average solar wind density
is 9.4 cm−3 for MCs and 6.3 cm−3 for MCLs; and (8) a MC is one of the most important interplanetary structures capable of causing severe geomagnetic storms.
The longer duration, more intense magnetic field and higher solar wind speed of MCs, compared to those properties of the MCLs,
are very likely the major reasons for MCs generally causing more severe geomagnetic storms than MCLs. But the fact that a
MC is an important interplanetary structure with respect to geomagnetic storms is not new (e.g., Zhang and Burlaga, J. Geophys. Res.
93, 2511, 1988; Bothmer, ESA SP-535, 419, 2003). 相似文献
4.
Synoptic maps of white-light coronal brightness from SOHO/LASCO C2 and distributions of solar wind velocity obtained from
interplanetary scintillation are studied. Regions with velocity V≈300 – 450 km s−1 and increased density N>10 cm−3, typical of the “slow” solar wind originating from the belt and chains of streamers, are shown to exist at Earth’s orbit,
between the fast solar wind flows (with a maximum velocity V
max ≈450 – 800 km s−1). The belt and chains of streamers are the main sources of the “slow” solar wind. As the sources of “slow” solar wind, the
contribution from the chains of streamers may be comparable to that from the streamer belt. 相似文献
5.
V. A. Sheminova 《Solar physics》2009,254(1):29-50
The properties of solar magnetic fields on scales less than the spatial resolution of solar telescopes are studied. A synthetic
infrared spectropolarimetric diagnostic based on a 2D MHD simulation of magnetoconvection is used for this. Analyzed are two
time sequences of snapshots that likely represent two regions of the network fields with their immediate surroundings on the
solar surface with unsigned magnetic flux densities of 300 and 140 G. In the first region from the probability density functions
of the magnetic field strength it is found that the most probable field strength at log τ
5=0 is equal to 250 G. Weak fields (B<500 G) occupy about 70% of the surface, whereas stronger fields (B>1000 G) occupy only 9.7% of the surface. The magnetic flux is −28 G and its imbalance is −0.04. In the second region, these
parameters are correspondingly equal to 150 G, 93.3%, 0.3%, −40 G, and −0.10. The distribution of line-of-sight velocities
on the surface of log τ
5=−1 is estimated. The mean velocity is equal to 0.4 km s−1 in the first simulated region. The average velocity in the granules is −1.2 km s−1 and in the intergranules it is 2.5 km s−1. In the second region, the corresponding values of the mean velocities are equal to 0, −1.8, and 1.5 km s−1. In addition the asymmetry of synthetic Stokes V profiles of the Fe i 1564.8 nm line is analyzed. The mean values of the amplitude and area asymmetry do not exceed 1%. The spatially smoothed
amplitude asymmetry is increased to 10% whereas the area asymmetry is only slightly varied. 相似文献
6.
Results from kinematic solar dynamo models employing α ‐effect and turbulent pumping from local convection calculations are presented. We estimate the magnitude of these effects to be around 2–3 m s–1, having scaled the local quantities with the convective velocity at the bottom of the convection zone from a solar mixing‐length model. Rotation profile of the Sun as obtained from helioseismology is applied in the models; we also investigate the effects of the observed surface shear layer on the dynamo solutions. With these choices of the small‐ and large‐scale velocity fields, we obtain estimate of the ratio of the two induction effects, C α /C Ω ≈ 10–3, which we keep fixed in all models. We also include a one‐cell meridional circulation pattern having a magnitude of 10–20 m s–1 near the surface and 1–2 m s–1 at the bottom of the convection zone. The model essentially represents a distributed turbulent dynamo, as the α ‐effect is nonzero throughout the convection zone, although it concentrates near the bottom of the convection zone obtaining a maximum around 30° of latitude. Turbulent pumping of the mean fields is predominantly down‐ and equatorward. The anisotropies in the turbulent diffusivity are neglected apart from the fact that the diffusivity is significantly reduced in the overshoot region. We find that, when all these effects are included in the model, it is possible to correctly reproduce many features of the solar activity cycle, namely the correct equatorward migration at low latitudes and the polar branch at high latitudes, and the observed negative sign of B r B ϕ . Although the activity clearly shifts towards the equator in comparison to previous models due to the combined action of the α ‐effect peaking at midlatitudes, meridional circulation and latitudinal pumping, most of the activity still occurs at too high latitudes (between 5° … 60°). Other problems include the relatively narrow parameter space within which the preferred solution is dipolar (A0), and the somewhat too short cycle lengths of the solar‐type solutions. The role of the surface shear layer is found to be important only in the case where the α ‐effect has an appreciable magnitude near the surface. (© 2006 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) 相似文献
7.
High-cadence TRACE observations show that outward-propagating intensity disturbances are a common feature in large, quiescent
coronal loops. Analysis of the frequency distribution of these modes shows peaks at both three- and five-minute periods, indicating
that they may be driven by the solar surface oscillations (p modes). The energy flux contained within the coronal intensity disturbances is of the order of (1.1±0.4)×103 ergs cm−2 s−1. A simple order-of-magnitude estimate of the damping rate of the relevant p modes allows us to put an observational constraint on the damping of p modes and shows that leakage into the overlying coronal atmosphere might be able to account for a significant fraction of
p-mode damping. 相似文献
8.
Based on data for 102 OB3 stars with known proper motions and radial velocities, we have tested the distances derived by Megier
et al. from interstellar Ca II spectral lines. The internal reconciliation of the distance scales using the first derivative
of the angular velocity of Galactic rotation Ω′0 and the external reconciliation with Humphreys’s distance scale for OB associations refined by Mel’nik and Dambis show that
the initial distances should be reduced by ≈20%. Given this correction, the heliocentric distances of these stars lie within
the range 0.6–2.6 kpc. A kinematic analysis of these stars at a fixed Galactocentric distance of the Sun, R
0 = 8 kpc, has allowed the following parameters to be determined: (1) the solar peculiar velocity components (u
⊙, v
⊙, ω
⊙) = (8.9, 10.3, 6.8) ± (0.6, 1.0, 0.4) km s−1; (2) the Galactic rotation parameters Ω0 = −31.5 ± 0.9 km s−1 kpc−1, Ω′0 = +4.49 ± 0.12 km s−1 kpc−2, Ω″0 = −1.05 ± 0.38 km s−1 kpc−3 (the corresponding Oort constants are A = 17.9 ± 0.5 km s−1 kpc−1, B = −13.6 ± 1.0 km s−1 kpc−1 and the circular rotation velocity of the solar neighborhood is |V
0| = 252 ± 14 km s−1); (3) the spiral density wave parameters, namely: the perturbation amplitudes for the radial and azimuthal velocity components,
respectively, f
R
= −12.5±1.1 km s−1 and f
ϑ
= 2.0 ± 1.6 km s−1; the pitch angle for the two-armed spiral pattern i = −5.3° ± 0.3°, with the wavelength of the spiral density wave at the solar distance being λ = 2.3 ± 0.2 kpc; the Sun’s phase in the spiral wave x
⊙ = −91° ± 4°. 相似文献
9.
An estimate for the anisotropy of the turbulent viscositys is given in a convective layer heated from below and rotating around a vertical axis. In the case of two-dimensional convection,
there is a stationary regime withs⊇2 regardless of the rotation. In the case of three-dimensional convection in a slowly rotating layer (with the Taylor number
equal to 1600), nonstationary turbulent regimes take place withs⊇1.6 forR=2.5×104 (R is the Rayleigh number) ands⊇1.2 forR=104.
The parameters plays an, important role in the theory of differential rotation of the convective solar or stellar envelopes. So far, it
has been evaluated empirically or semi-empirically. Some prospects in the development of the theory of differential rotation
are discussed here in terms of the moment theory of hydrodynamic fields. The relation between this strict approach and an
anisotropic viscosity approximation is considered. 相似文献
10.
V. V. Bobylev 《Astronomy Letters》2010,36(9):634-644
We analyze the three-dimensional kinematics of about 82 000 Tycho-2 stars belonging to the red giant clump (RGC). First, based
on all of the currently available data, we have determined new, most probable components of the residual rotation vector of
the optical realization of the ICRS/HIPPARCOS system relative to an inertial frame of reference, (ω
x
, ω
y
, ω
z
) = (−0.11, 0.24, −0.52) ± (0.14, 0.10, 0.16) mas yr−1. The stellar proper motions in the form μα cos δ have then be corrected by applying the correction ω
z
= −0.52 mas yr−1. We show that, apart from their involvement in the general Galactic rotation described by the Oort constants A = 15.82 ± 0.21 km s−1 kpc−1 and B = −10.87 ± 0.15 km s−1 kpc−1, the RGC stars have kinematic peculiarities in the Galactic yz plane related to the kinematics of the warped stellar-gaseous Galactic disk. We show that the parameters of the linear Ogorodnikov-Milne
model that describe the kinematics of RGC stars in the zx plane do not differ significantly from zero. The situation in the yz plane is different. For example, the component of the solid-body rotation vector of the local solar neighborhood around the
Galactic x axis is M
32− = −2.6 ± 0.2 km s−1 kpc−1. Two parameters of the deformation tensor in this plane, namely M
23+ = 1.0 ± 0.2 km s−1 kpc−1 and M
33 − M
22 = −1.3 ± 0.4 km s−1 kpc−1, also differ significantly from zero. On the whole, the kinematics of the warped stellar-gaseous Galactic disk in the local
solar neighborhood can be described as a rotation around the Galactic x axis (close to the line of nodes of this structure) with an angular velocity −3.1 ± 0.5 km s−1 kpc−1 ≤ ΩW ≤ −4.4 ± 0.5 km s−1 kpc−1. 相似文献
11.
If massive sterile neutrinos exist, their decays into photons and/or electron-positron pairs may give rise to observable consequences.
We consider the possibility that MeV sterile neutrino decays lead to the diffuse positron annihilation line in the Milky Way
center, and we thus obtain bounds on the sterile neutrino decay rate Γ
e
≥10−28 s−1 from relevant astrophysical/cosmological data. Also, we expect a soft gamma flux of 1.2×10−4–9.7×10−4 ph cm−2 s−1 from the Milky Way center which shows up as a small MeV bump in the background photon spectrum. Furthermore, we estimate
the flux of active neutrinos produced by sterile neutrino decays to be 0.02–0.1 cm−2 s−1 passing through the earth. 相似文献
12.
P. A. Sturrock 《Solar physics》2009,254(2):227-239
A search for any particular feature in any single solar neutrino dataset is unlikely to establish variability of the solar
neutrino flux since the count rates are very low. It helps to combine datasets, and in this article we examine data from both
the Homestake and GALLEX experiments. These show evidence of modulation with a frequency of 11.85 year−1, which could be indicative of rotational modulation originating in the solar core. We find that precisely the same frequency
is prominent in power spectrum analyses of the ACRIM irradiance data for both the Homestake and GALLEX time intervals. These
results suggest that the solar core is inhomogeneous and rotates with a sidereal frequency of 12.85 year−1. From Monte Carlo calculations, it is found that the probability that the neutrino data would by chance match the irradiance
data in this way is only 2 parts in 10 000. This rotation rate is significantly lower than that of the inner radiative zone
(13.97 year−1) as recently inferred from analysis of Super-Kamiokande data, suggesting that there may be a second, inner tachocline separating
the core from the radiative zone. This opens up the possibility that there may be an inner dynamo that could produce a strong
internal magnetic field and a second solar cycle. 相似文献
13.
Nelson L. Reginald Joseph M. Davila O. C. St. Cyr Douglas M. Rabin Madhulika Guhathakurta Donald M. Hassler Hadi Gashut 《Solar physics》2011,270(1):235-251
An experiment was conducted in conjunction with the total solar eclipse on 29 March 2006 in Libya to measure both the electron
temperature and its flow speed simultaneously at multiple locations in the low solar corona by measuring the visible K-coronal
spectrum. Coronal model spectra incorporating the effects of electron temperature and its flow speed were matched with the
measured K-coronal spectra to interpret the observations. Results show electron temperatures of (1.10±0.05) MK, (0.70±0.08) MK,
and (0.98±0.12) MK, at 1.1 R
⊙ from Sun center in the solar north, east and west, respectively, and (0.93±0.12) MK, at 1.2 R
⊙ from Sun center in the solar west. The corresponding outflow speeds obtained from the spectral fit are (103±92) km s−1, (0+10) km s−1, (0+10) km s−1, and (0+10) km s−1. Since the observations were taken only at 1.1 R
⊙ and 1.2 R
⊙ from Sun center, these speeds, consistent with zero outflow, are in agreement with expectations and provide additional confirmation
that the spectral fitting method is working. The electron temperature at 1.1 R
⊙ from Sun center is larger at the north (polar region) than the east and west (equatorial region). 相似文献
14.
A. I. Yatsenko 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1988,142(1-2):85-88
Summary In this paper the results of the research of the stars proper motions Trapezium components are reported. They are: the galactic
coordinates of the solar aprx and the Sun velocity (L
⊙=43±18°,B
⊙=+28±13°,V
⊙=13±4 km s−1), the dispersion of peculiar velocities in the direction of the galactic coordinates for the above mentioned stars (σ
l
=±11 km s−1, σ
b
=±7 km s−1).The attained accuracy of the proper motions (±0.005″ yr−1) is shown to be insufficient to the study of internal space motions in these systems. At present the work to increase the
relative proper motions accuracy for multiple system components and to improve reductions from the relative to absolute proper
motions, is being carried out in the Main Astronomical Observatory (Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR). The new catalogue
of the AGK3 stars is composed now in the vicinity of the galactic equator in order to improve reductions from the relative
to absolute proper motions. The r.m.s. errors of the proper motions, obtained in the AGK3 system, are ±0.005″ yr−1. 相似文献
15.
Analysis of the Interball-1 spacecraft data (1995 – 2000) has shown that the solar wind ion flux sometimes increases or decreases abruptly by more than
20% over a time period of several seconds or minutes. Typically, the amplitude of such sharp changes in the solar wind ion
flux (SCIFs) is larger than 0.5×108 cm−2 s−1. These sudden changes of the ion flux were also observed by the Solar Wind Experiment (SWE), on board the Wind spacecraft, as the solar wind density increases and decreases with negligible changes in the solar wind velocity. SCIFs occur
irregularly at 1 AU, when plasma flows with specific properties come to the Earth’s orbit. SCIFs are usually observed in slow,
turbulent solar wind with increased density and interplanetary magnetic field strength. The number of times SCIFs occur during
a day is simulated using the solar wind density, magnetic field, and their standard deviations as input parameters for a period
of five years. A correlation coefficient of ∼0.7 is obtained between the modelled and the experimental data. It is found that
SCIFs are not associated with coronal mass ejections (CMEs), corotating interaction regions (CIRs), or interplanetary shocks;
however, 85% of the sector boundaries are surrounded by SCIFs. The properties of the solar wind plasma for days with five
or more SCIF observations are the same as those of the solar wind plasma at the sector boundaries. One possible explanation
for the occurrence of SCIFs (near sector boundaries) is magnetic reconnection at the heliospheric current sheet or local current
sheets. Other probable causes of SCIFs (inside sectors) are turbulent processes in the slow solar wind and at the crossings
of flux tubes. 相似文献
16.
The property of inhomogeneous turbulence in conducting fluids to expel large‐scale magnetic fields in the direction of decreasing turbulence intensity is shown as important for the magnetic field dynamics near the base of a stellar convection zone. The downward diamagnetic pumping confines a fossil internal magnetic field in the radiative core so that the field geometry is appropriate for formation of the solar tachocline. For the stars of solar age, the diamagnetic confinement is efficient only if the ratio of turbulent magnetic diffusivity ηT of the convection zone to the (microscopic or turbulent) diffusivity ηin of the radiative interior is ηT/ηin ≥ 105. Confinement in younger stars requires larger ηT/ηin. The observation of persistent magnetic structures on young solar‐type stars can thus provide evidence for the nonexistence of tachoclines in stellar interiors and on the level of turbulence in radiative cores. (© 2008 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) 相似文献
17.
We present the results of a study of solar wind velocity and magnetic field correlation lengths over the last 35 years. The
correlation length of the magnetic field magnitude λ
|B| increases on average by a factor of two at solar maxima compared to solar minima. The correlation lengths of the components
of the magnetic field lBXYZ\lambda_{B_{XYZ}} and of the velocity lVYZ\lambda_{V_{YZ}} do not show this change and have similar values, indicating a continual turbulent correlation length of around 1.4×106 km. We conclude that a linear relation between λ
|B|, VB
2, and Kp suggests that the former is related to the total magnetic energy in the solar wind and an estimate of the average
size of geoeffective structures, which is, in turn, proportional to VB
2. By looking at the distribution of daily correlation lengths we show that the solar minimum values of λ
|B| correspond to the turbulent outer scale. A tail of larger λ
|B| values is present at solar maximum causing the increase in mean value. 相似文献
18.
Based on currently available observations of 28 maser sources in 25 star-forming regions with measured trigonometric parallaxes,
proper motions, and radial velocities, we have constructed the rotation curve of the Galaxy. Taking different distances to
the Galactic center R
0, we have estimated the peculiar velocity of the Sun, the angular velocity of Galactic rotation, and its three derivatives.
For R
0 = 8 kpc, we have found the circular velocity of the Sun to be V
0 = 243 ± 16 km s−1, which corresponds to a revolution period of 202 ± 10 Myr. We have obtained the Oort constants A = 16.9 ± 1.2 km s−1 kpc−1 and B = −13.5 ± 1.4 km s−1 kpc−1. Our simulation of the influence of a spiral density wave has shown that the peculiar velocity of the Sun with respect to
the local standard of rest and the component (V
⊙)LSR depend significantly on the Sun’s phase in the spiral wave. 相似文献
19.
Based on spectra taken with a 6-m telescope, we analyzed the abundances of chemical elements in the He-weak stars HD 21699
and HD 217833, estimated their surface magnetic fields (Bs = 4000 and 4500 G, respectively) from the magnetic intensification of spectral lines, and determined their microturbulences
(V
t = 0.80 and 0.75 km s−1, respectively). The low values of V
t show that the stellar atmospheres are stabilized by a magnetic field, which explains the presence of diffusion processes
that lead to chemical anomalies. Helium is strongly underabundant, and its deficiency is −1.50 and −1.81 dex in HD 21699 and
HD 217833, respectively. We used model atmospheres to determine the effective temperatures, T
eff = 16 000 and 15 450 K, and surface gravities, log g = 4.15 and 3.88, for the stars from the Hδ line, implying that they lie on the main sequence near the stars of luminosity
class V. 相似文献
20.
Zi Zhu 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2000,271(4):353-363
Combining Hipparcos proper motions and the radial velocity data, we have studied the Cepheid kinematics on the basis of the
three-dimensional Ogorodnikov-Milne model. The results seem to show a slight contracting motion of the Galaxy in the solar
neighbourhood, ∂ V
θ / ∂θ / R = −2.60 ± 1.07 km s-1 kpc-1, which is along the solar circle. Under the hypothesis of a circular stream model, we have determined the galactic rotation
V
θ = −240.5 ± 10.2 km s-1 for the classical Cepheids.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献