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T. M. L. Wigley 《Solar physics》1981,74(2):435-471
The Earth's climate is not constant, and has experienced major changes in the past on all timescales. The causes of these changes, although still incompletely understood, vary according to the timescale considered. Some of the most important causal mechanisms include continental drift, changes in the Earth's orbital parameters, volcanic activity and solar variations. Solar variations have been invoked to explain climatic change on almost all timescales from 1 to 109 yr. Unfortunately, even though the Sun is a prime candidate for explaining many changes in past climate, the use of past climate as a proxy for solar luminosity changes is fraught with difficulty. For example:
- In many cases observed changes in climate can be adequately explained without recourse to solar variations as a causal factor. In fact, on the longest timescales the Earth's climate was remarkably similar to today in spite of a considerably lower solar output.
- For most timescales of climatic change there are, as yet, no plausible theories giving similar timescale variations in solar activity, so that a vital link between cause and effect is missing.
- There are considerable uncertainties in the record of past climates.
- On short timescales many proposed solar activity-climate links have failed to stand up to rigorous statistical analysis.
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Kenneth H. Schatten 《Solar physics》1973,33(2):305-318
In this paper the process of magnetic convection is studied. It is shown that outside of a radius of about 2 × 105 km, magnetic fields in the Sun may be buoyant. Outside this limit strong field regions tend to rise at the expense of weak field regions which tend to sink. Magnetic convection may be important in magnetic stars and even in the solar interior. A recent calculation of the angular velocity of the Sun provides a period of rotation for the solar core of from 0.5 to 5 days. This calculation requires that the magnetic field extract angular momentum from the solar interior. Magnetic convection thus seems to be required, if this calculation is correct. Furthermore, magnetic convection may transfer heat and thereby possibly change the internal temperature structure of the Sun from what would be expected solely by radiation transfer. 相似文献
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We study high-order acoustic modes which reside in the outer layers of the solar interior. Magnetic field effects are not taken into account in this paper as we wish first to filter out how the modal frequencies depend on physical characteristics of a particular model structure of the Sun. In particular, we are interested in how the modal frequencies of solar global oscillations depend on the thickness of the convection layer and on the temperature gradient of the solar interior below. The model we use consists of three planar layers: an isothermal atmosphere, while the convection layer and the interior have temperature gradients that are adiabatic and sub-adiabatic, respectively. The presence of a convection layer with a finite thickness brings in additional modes while the variations in temperature gradient of the interior cause shifts in eigenfrequencies that are more pronounced for the p modes than for the g modes. These shifts can easily be of the order of several hundreds of Hz, which is much larger than the observational accuracy. 相似文献
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Ian W. Roxburgh 《Solar physics》1985,100(1-2):21-51
The standard model of solar evolution is reviewed and a number of problems highlighted. A fundamental question is whether there is any mixing of matter in the central regions, since such mixing could radically alter the model of the present Sun and modify our understanding of the evolution of other stars. Standard models of solar evolution become unstable to 3He driven global oscillations at an age of 3 × 108 years and this may drive some mixing, even if this is not the case the finite amptitude limit of these oscillations is likely to produce modifications in the standard model. Convective overshooting at the bottom of the outer convective zone leads to an increased depth of this zone and small changes in the interior. It is pointed out that the young Sun had a 12C driven convective core whose extent and duration depends on the extent of overshooting. Such a core is likely to produce a magnetic field which will affect the internal dynamics. The internal rotation of the Sun remains an enigma and absence of knowledge of any internal magnetic field makes it difficult to study the problem. Rotationally driven instabilities are ineffective in the central chemically inhomogenous regions but may contribute to the inward diffusion of lithium from the convective zone. These and other problems are considered, but few solutions are proposed. 相似文献
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Summary Accurate measurements of observed frequencies of solar oscillations are providing a wealth of data on the properties of the solar interior. The frequencies depend on solar structure, and on the properties of the plasma in the Sun. Here we consider in particular the dependence on the thermodynamic state. From an analysis of the equations of stellar structure, and the relevant aspects of the properties of the oscillations, we argue that in the convection zone one can isolate information about the equation of state which is relatively unaffected by other uncertainties in the physics of the solar interior. We review the different treatments that have been used to describe the thermodynamics of stellar plasmas. Through application of several of these to the computation of models of the solar envelope we demonstrate that the sensitivity of the observed frequencies is in fact sufficient to distinguish even quite subtle features of the physics of solar matter. This opens up the possibility of using the Sun as a laboratory for statistical mechanics, under conditions that are out of reach in a terrestrial laboratory. 相似文献
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H. M. Antia 《Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy》2002,23(1-2):3-8
The interior of the Sun is not directly observable to us. Nevertheless, it is possible to infer the physical conditions prevailing
in the solar interior with the help of theoretical models coupled with observational input provided by measured frequencies
of solar oscillations. The frequencies of these solar oscillations depend on the internal structure and dynamics of the Sun
and from the knowledge of these frequencies it is possible to infer the internal structure as well as the large scale flows
inside the Sun, in the same way as the observations of seismic waves on the surface of Earth help us in the study of its interior.
With the accumulation of seismic data over the last six years it has also become possible to study temporal variations in
the solar interior. Some of these seismic inferences would be described. 相似文献
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Estimates are given for the amplitudes of stochastically excited oscillations in Main Sequence stars and cool giants; these were obtained using the equipartition between convective and pulsational energy which was originally proposed by Goldreich and Keeley. The amplitudes of both velocity and luminosity perturbation generally increase with increasing mass along the Main Sequence as long as convection transports a major fraction of the total flux, and the amplitudes also increase with the age of the model. The 1.5 M ⊙ ZAMS model, of spectral type F0, has velocity amplitudes ten times larger than those found in the Sun. For very luminous red supergiants luminosity amplitudes of up to about 0 m .1 are predicted, in rough agreement with observations presented by Maeder. 相似文献
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An extensive study of the IMP-6 and IMP-8 plasma and radio wave data has been performed to try to find electron plasma oscillations associated with type III radio noise bursts and low-energy solar electrons. This study shows that electron plasma oscillations are seldom observed in association with solar electron events and type III radio bursts at 1.0 AU. In nearly four years of observations only one event was found in which electron plasma oscillations are clearly associated with solar electrons. For this event the plasma oscillations appeared coincident with the development of a secondary maximum in the electron velocity distribution functions due to solar electrons streaming outwards from the Sun. Numerous cases were found in which no electron plasma oscillations with field strengths greater than 1 μV m?1 could be detected even though electrons from the solar flare were clearly detected at the spacecraft. For the one case in which electron plasma oscillations are definitely produced by the electrons ejected by the solar flare the electric field strength is relatively small, only about 100 μV m?1. This field strength is about a factor of ten smaller than the amplitude of electron plasma oscillations generated by electrons streaming into the solar wind from the bow shock. Electromagnetic radiation, believed to be similar to the type III radio emission, is also observed coming from the region of the more intense electron plasma oscillations upstream of the bow shock. Quantitative calculations of the rate of conversion of the plasma oscillation energy to electromagnetic radiation are presented for plasma oscillations excited by both solar electrons and electrons from the bow shock. These calculations show that neither the type III radio emissions nor the radiation from upstream of the bow shock can be adequately explained by a current theory for the coupling of electron plasma oscillations to electromagnetic radiation. Possible ways of resolving these difficulties are discussed. 相似文献
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The ultra-low frequency power spectra (from 1 nHz to 10 Hz) for the solar wind ion density (N) and speed (SWS) measurements taken near 1 AU, have been examined during the period 1973–2000. Although the spectrum shows remarkable peaks at the wavelengths 0.5, 0.7, 1.0, 1.3 years, additional significant peaks of 2.6 yr and 5.6 yr for N and 9.6 yr for SWS are also found. Possible causes are discussed. The 9.6-yr period is not related to the period of the solar activity cycle, but there is some indication of an association with the coronal hole variations in the southern hemisphere of the Sun. The averages of solar wind ion density showed a periodic variation with three nearly equal peaks at intervals of 5.1±0.2 yr. The long-term enhancements in SWS reflect nearly stable variations and a continuously-existing feature in the heliosphere. The observed long periodicities in both N and SWS spectra may be strongly related to, or organized by, the observed variations in the coronal hole areas between northern and southern hemispheres of the Sun. The timing of the maximum peaks in solar ion densities and speeds spectrum is predicted. 相似文献
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The spectroscopic variability of Arcturus hints at cyclic activity cycle and differential rotation. This could provide a test of current theoretical models of solar and stellar dynamos. To examine the applicability of current models of the flux transport dynamo to Arcturus, we compute a mean‐field model for its internal rotation, meridional flow, and convective heat transport in the convective envelope. We then compare the conditions for dynamo action with those on the Sun. We find solar‐type surface rotation with about 1/10th of the shear found on the solar surface. The rotation rate increases monotonically with depth at all latitudes throughout the whole convection zone. In the lower part of the convection zone the horizontal shear vanishes and there is a strong radial gradient. The surface meridional flow has maximum speed of 170 m/s and is directed towards the equator at high and towards the poles at low latitudes. Turbulent magnetic diffusivity is of the order 1015–1016 cm2/s. The conditions on Arcturus are not favorable for a circulation‐dominated dynamo (© 2011 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) 相似文献
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日震学是太阳物理的一个前沿分支学科,是根据太阳振动的观测来研究太阳的内部结构与运动的一种方法学。太阳５ｍｉｎ振动频率的理论计算和实测之间存在的显著偏差和振动模的激发问题一直是困扰日震学的两大难题,经过多年的研究仍然没有解决。然而太阳的表面层内绝热假设条件与真实情况有很大的偏差,我们认为绝大多数标准太阳模型的Ｐ模频率计算忽略了非绝热效应对频率的影响,忽略了振动的激发和衰减机制以及缺乏振动与对流湍流相互作用的知识。因此,我们必须发展非绝热理论来处理太阳５ｍｉｎ的振动问题 相似文献
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H. Yoshimura 《Astronomische Nachrichten》1994,315(5):371-390
We found an evidence that the luminosity of the Sun systematically decreased about 20 days before sunspot surface appearance by analysing time-lag correlation of time derivatives of running mean time profiles of the data of the Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor (ACRIM) I experiment on board of Solar Maximum Mission (SMM) and of the data of the daily sunspot number. This indicates that sunspot flux tube cooling and heat transport blocking by the flux tubes start to take place in the interior of the solar convection zone well before the sunspot surface appearance. From this finding and our previous finding that the luminosity of the Sun systematically increased and the blocked heat appeared on the surface about 50 days after the sunspot surface appearance, a new view of sunspot formation and dynamics and a new view of the luminosity modulation emerged. (i) Sunspots of a solar cycle are formed from clusters of flux tubes which can be seen in the running mean time profile of the sunspot number as a peak with duration on the order of 100 to 200 days. (ii) Heat flow is blocked by the cluster of sunspot flux tubes inside the convection zone to decrease the luminosity about 20 days before the surface emergence of the sunspot cluster. (iii) The blocked heat appears on the surface about 50 days after the surface emergence of the cluster of sunspot flux tubes to heat up the surface. This appears as a thermal pulse in the running mean time profile of the ACRIM dat in between the peaks of the sunspot running mean time profile. This process of heating the surface makes the temperature gradient less steep and weakens the buoyancy of sunspot flux tubes below the surface. (vi) The radiative cooling of the surface layer by the excess heat release steepens the temperature gradient so that the buoyancy of the sub-surface magnetic flux tubes becomes stronger to cause the next surge of emergence of a cluster of sunspots and other magnetic activities, which creates a peak in the time profile of the sunspot number. We call this peak a magnetic pulse of the Sun and the coupled process of alternating pulsed appearance of heat and sunspots the magneto-thermal pulsation of the Sun. 相似文献
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Eric D. Feigelson 《Icarus》1982,51(1):155-163
Recent observations of soft X-ray emission from solar-type stars obtained with the Einstein X-Ray Observatory indicate that X-ray luminosity is inversely correlated with stellar age. If this result is applied to the Sun and if X-ray emission is a valid indicator of other manifestations of solar activity, then past solar wind and flare levels can be inferred. It can qualitatively explain the excess xenon and nitrogen found in the lunar regolith compared to the level expected from the comteporary solar wind. X-Ray emission from T Tauri and other low-mass pre-main-sequence stars is both highly luminous and variable, indicating the presence of flares ～4 × 103 times stronger than the largest flares seen in the contemporary Sun. The proton flux from such solar flares during the 106 to 107-year pre-main-sequence phase would be sufficient to account for the 26Al anomaly n meteorites. 相似文献
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A two-layer spherical alpha2 dynamo model consisting of an inner electrically conducting core (magnetic diffusivity lambdai and radius ri) with alpha=0 surrounded by an electrically conducting spherical shell (magnetic diffusivity lambdao and radius ro) with a constant alpha is shown to exhibit oscillatory behavior for values of beta=lambdai&solm0;lambdao and ri&solm0;ro relevant to the solar dynamo. Time-dependent dynamo solutions require ri&solm0;ro>/=0.55 and beta相似文献
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An attempt is made to infer the structure of the solar convection zone from observedp-mode frequencies of solar oscillations. The differential asymptotic inversion technique is used to find the sound speed in
the solar envelope. It is found that envelope models which use the Canuto-Mazzitelli (CM) formulation for calculating the
convective flux give significantly better agreement with observations than models constructed using the mixing length formalism.
This inference can be drawn from both the scaled frequency differences and the sound speed difference. The sound speed in
the CM envelope model is within 0.2% of that in the Sun except in the region withr > 0.99R
⊙. The envelope models are extended below the convection zone, to find some evidence for the gravitational settling of helium
beneath the base of the convection zone. It turns out that for models with a steep composition gradient below the convection
zone, the convection zone depth has to be increased by about 6 Mm in order to get agreement with helioseismic observations. 相似文献
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L. S. Marochnik 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1983,89(1):61-75
The solar system's position in the Galaxy is an exclusive one, since the Sun is close to the corotation circle, which is the place where the angular velocity of the galactic differential rotation is equal to that of density waves displaying as spiral arms. Each galaxy contains only one corotation circle; therefore, it is an exceptional place. In the Galaxy, the deviation of the Sun from the corotation is very small — it is equal to ΔR/R ⊙≈0.03, where ΔR=R c ?R ⊙,R c is the corotation distance from the galactic center andR ⊙ is the Sun's distance from the galactic center. The special conditions of the Sun's position in the Galaxy explain the origin of the fundamental cosmogony timescalesT 1≈4.6×109 yr,T 2?108 yr,T 3?106 yr detected by the radioactive decay of various nuclides. The timescaleT 1 (the solar system's ‘lifetime’) is the protosolar cloud lifetime in a space between the galactic spiral arms. The timescaleT 2 is the presolar cloud lifetime in a spiral arm.T 3 is a timescale of hydrodynamical processes of a cloud-wave interaction. The possibility of the natural explanation of the cosmogony timescales by the unified process (on condition that the Sun is near the state of corotation) can become an argument in favour of the fact that the nearness to the corotation is necessary for the formation of systems similar to the Solar system. If the special position of the Sun is not incidental, then the corotation circles of our Galaxy, as well as those of other galaxies, are just regions where situations similar to ours are likely to be found. 相似文献
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E. N. Parker 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1974,31(1):261-266
There has been discussion of the possibility of resolving the solar neutrino dilemma with a sufficiently strong magnetic field (5×108 G) in the solar interior to relieve the gas pressure by some ten percent or more. We examine the time in which magnetic buoyancy will bring a strong field to the surface and find it to be less than 108 yr. We see no possibility for retaining a suitably strong magnetic field in the solar interior. 相似文献
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The global distribution of solar surface activity (active regions) is apparently connected with processes in the convection
zone. The large-scale magnetic structures above the tachocline could in a pronounced way be observable in the surface magnetic
field. To get the information regarding large-scale magnetic formations in the convection zone, a set of solar synoptic charts
(Mount Wilson 1998 – 2004, Fe i, 525.02 nm) have been analyzed. It is shown that the longitudinal dimensions and dynamics of supergiant complexes of solar
surface activity carry valuable information about the processes in the convection zone of the Sun. A clear effect of large-scale
(global) turbulence is found. This is a ‘fingerprint’ of deep convection, because there are no such large-scale turbulent
eddies in the solar photosphere. The preferred scales of longitudinal variations in surface solar activity are revealed. These
are: ∼ 24° (gigantic convection cells), 90°, 180° and 360°. 相似文献
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Origin of the late heavy bombardment 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
J. Mottmann 《Icarus》1977,31(3):412-413
Cratering data from the Moon, Mars, and Mercury have been interpreted by some as evidence that the inner solar system underwent a period of intense bombardment that ended about 4 × 109 yr ago. Planetary perturbations of small objects within the solar system seem unable to account for the effect. This paper suggests that stellar perturbations from members of the original open cluster within which the Sun formed triggered the brief flux of objects responsible for the bombardment. 相似文献
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H. M. Antia Sarbani Basu & S. M. Chitre 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》1998,298(2):543-556
A new set of accurately measured frequencies of solar oscillations is used to infer the rotation rate inside the Sun, as a function of radial distance as well as latitude. We have adopted a regularized least-squares technique with iterative refinement for both 1.5D inversion, using the splitting coefficients, and 2D inversion using individual m splittings. The inferred rotation rate agrees well with earlier estimates showing a shear layer just below the surface and another one around the base of the convection zone. The tachocline or the transition layer where the rotation rate changes from differential rotation in the convection zone to an almost latitudinally independent rotation rate in the radiative interior is studied in detail. No compelling evidence for any latitudinal variation in the position and width of the tachocline is found, although it appears that the tachocline probably shifts to a slightly larger radial distance at higher latitudes and possibly also becomes thicker. However, these variations are within the estimated errors and more accurate data would be needed to make a definitive statement about latitudinal variations. 相似文献