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1.
We study the North–South asymmetry of zonal and meridional components of horizontal, solar subsurface flows during the years
2001–2004, which cover the declining phase of solar cycle 23. We measure the horizontal flows from the near-surface layers
to 16 Mm depth by analyzing 44 consecutive Carrington rotations of Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG) Doppler images
with a ring-diagram analysis technique. The meridional flow and the errors of both flow components show an annual variation
related to the B
0-angle variation, while the zonal flow is less affected by the B
0-angle variation. After correcting for this effect, the meridional flow is mainly poleward but it shows a counter cell close
to the surface at high latitudes in both hemispheres. During the declining phase of the solar cycle, the meridional flow mainly
increases with time at latitudes poleward of about 20˚, while it mainly decreases at more equatorward latitudes. The temporal variation of the zonal flow in both hemispheres is
significantly correlated at latitudes less than about 20˚. The zonal flow is larger in the southern hemisphere than the northern one, and this North–South asymmetry increases with
depth. Details of the North–South asymmetry of zonal and meridional flow reflect the North–South asymmetry of the magnetic
flux. The North–South asymmetries of the flows show hints of a variation with the solar cycle. 相似文献
2.
Interplanetary magnetic clouds (MCs) are one of the main sources of large non-recurrent geomagnetic storms. With the aid of
a force-free flux rope model, the dependence of the intensity of geomagnetic activity (indicated by Dst index) on the axial orientation (denoted by θ and φ in GSE coordinates) of the magnetic cloud is analyzed theoretically. The distribution of the Dst values in the (θ, φ) plane is calculated by changing the axial orientation for various cases. It is concluded that (i) geomagnetic storms tend
to occur in the region of θ<0°, especially in the region of θ≲−45°, where larger geomagnetic activity could be created; (ii) the intensity of geomagnetic activity varies more strongly
with θ than with φ; (iii) when the parameters B
0 (the magnetic field strength at the flux rope axis), R
0 (the radius of the flux rope), or V (the bulk speed) increase, or |D| (the shortest distance between the flux rope axis and the x-axis in GSE coordinates) decreases, a flux rope not only can increase the intensity of geomagnetic activity, but also is
more likely to create a storm, however the variation of n (the density) only has a little effect on the intensity; (iv) the most efficient orientation (MEO) in which a flux rope can
cause the largest geomagnetic activity appears at φ∼0° or ∼ 180°, and some value of θ which depends mainly on D; (v) the minimum Dst value that could be caused by a flux rope is the most sensitive to changes in B
0 and V of the flux rope, and for a stronger and/or faster MC, a wider range of orientations will be geoeffective. Further, through
analyzing 20 MC-caused moderate to large geomagnetic storms during 1998 – 2003, a long-term prediction of MC-caused geomagnetic
storms on the basis of the flux rope model is proposed and assessed. The comparison between the theoretical results and the
observations shows that there is a close linear correlation between the estimated and observed minimum Dst values. This suggests that using the ideal flux rope to predict practical MC-caused geomagnetic storms is applicable. The
possibility of the long-term prediction of MC-caused geomagnetic storms is discussed briefly. 相似文献
3.
The integrals, Ii(t) = GL ui
j × B
i
dv over the volume GL are calculated in a dynamo model of the Babcock–Leighton type studied earlier. Here, GL is the generating layer for the solar toroidal magnetic field, located at the base of the solar convection zone (SCZ); i=r, , , stands for the radial, latitudinal, and azimuthal coordinates respectively; j = (4)-1
× B, where B is the magnetic field; ur,u are the components of the meridional motion, and u is the differential rotation. During a ten-year cycle the energy cycle I(t)dt needs to be supplied to the azimuthal flow in the GL to compensate for the energy losses due to the Lorentz force. The calculations proceed as follows: for every time step, the maximum value of |B| in the GL is computed. If this value exceeds Bcr (a prescribed field) then there is eruption of a flux tube that rises radially, and reaches the surface at a latitude corresponding to the maximum of |B| (the time of rise is neglected). This flux tube generates a bipolar magnetic region, which is replaced by its equivalent axisymmetric configuration, a magnetic ring doublet. The erupted flux can be multiplied by a factor Ft, i.e., by the number of eruptions per time step. The model is marginally stable and the ensemble of eruptions acts as the source for the poloidal field. The arbitrary parameters Bcr and Ft are determined by matching the flux of a typical solar active region, and of the total erupted flux in a cycle, respectively. If E(B) is the energy, in the GL, of the toroidal magnetic field B = B sin cos , B (constant), then the numerical calculations show that the energy that needs to be supplied to the differential rotation during a ten-year cycle is of the order of E(Bcr), which is considerably smaller than the kinetic energy of differential rotation in the GL. Assuming that these results can be extrapolated to larger values of Bcr, magnetic fields 104 G, could be generated in the upper section of the tachocline that lies below the SCZ (designated by UT). The energy required to generate these 104 G fields during a cycle is of the order of the kinetic energy in the UT. 相似文献
4.
Experiments based on multi-source radio occultation measurements of the circumsolar plasma at R∼4.0−70R
S were carried out during 1997 – 2008 to locate the inner boundary of the solar-wind transonic transition region, R
in. The data obtained were used to correlate the solar-wind stream structure and magnetic fields on the source surface (R=2.5R
S) in the solar corona. The method of the investigation is based on the analysis of the dependence R
in=F(|B
R|) in the correlation diagrams, where R
in is the inner boundary of the solar-wind transition region and |B
R| is the intensity of the magnetic field at the source surface. On such diagrams, the solar wind is resolved into discrete
branches, streams of different types. The analysis of the stream types using a continuous series of data from 1997 to 2008
allowed us to propose a physical criterion for delimiting the epochs in the current activity cycle. 相似文献
5.
T. J. Bogdan 《Solar physics》1986,103(2):311-315
Previous efforts to construct solar coronal fields using surface magnetograph data have generally employed a least squares minimization technique in order to determine the spherical harmonic expansion coefficients of the magnetic scalar potential. Provided there is no source surface high up in the corona, we show that knowledge of the line-of-sight component of the surface magnetic field, B
i
= B
r
sin + B
cos , is sufficient to uniquely determine the potential coronal magnetic field by an explicit construction of the magnetic scalar potential for an arbitrary B
l
(, ).The National Center for Atmospheric Research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. 相似文献
6.
The 1968–2000 data on the mean magnetic field (MMF, longitudinal component) of the Sun are analysed to study long-time trends of the Sun's magnetic field and to check MMF calibration. It is found that, within the error limits, the mean intensity of photospheric magnetic field (the MMF strength, |H|), did not change over the last 33 years. It clearly shows, however, the presence of an 11-year periodicity caused by the solar activity cycle. Time variations of |H| correlate well with those of the radial component, |B
r|, of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF). This correlation (r=0.69) appears to be significantly higher than that between |B
r| and the results of a potential source-surface extrapolation, to the Earth's orbit, of synoptic magnetic charts of the photosphere (using the so-called `saturation' factor –1 for magnetograph measurements performed in the line Fei 525.0 nm; Wang and Sheeley, 1995). It seems therefore that the true source surface of IMF is the `quiet' photosphere – background fields and coronal holes, like those for MMF. The average `effective' magnetic strength of the photospheric field is determined to be about 1.9 G. It is also shown that there is an approximate linear relation between |B
r| and MMF intensity |H| (in gauss)|B
r|(H
0)min×(1+C|H|)where =1.5×10–5 normalizes the photospheric field strength to 1 AU distance from the Sun, (H
0)min=1.2 G is some minimal `effective' intensity of photospheric background fields and C=1.3 G–1 an empirical constant. It is noted that good correlation between time variations of |H| and |B
r| makes suspicious a correction of the photospheric magnetic fields with the use of saturation factor –1. 相似文献
7.
M. Yu. Piotrovich Yu. N. Gnedin T. M. Natsvlishvili N. A. Silant’ev 《Astronomy Letters》2010,36(6):389-395
We analyze the spectropolarimetric observations of 12 candidates for quasars from the spectroscopic database of the SDSS Catalog.
The magnetic fields of these objects are estimated in the context of a theory that includes the Faraday rotation of the polarization
plane on the mean free path of a photon in the outflow from an accretion disk. As a result, we have determined the column
density in the outflow, N
H ∼ 6 × 1023 cm−2, and the radial, B ∼ 1 G, and toroidal, B ∼ 600 G, magnetic fields. 相似文献
8.
S. Chatterjee 《Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy》1991,12(4):269-280
We present here rigorous analytical solutions for the Boltzmann-Poisson equation concerning the distribution of stars above
the galactic plane. The number density of stars is considered to follow a behaviour n(m,0) ∼H(m - m0)m−x, wherem is the mass of a star andx an arbitrary exponent greater than 2 and also the velocity dispersion of the stars is assumed to behave as < v2(m)> ∼ m−θ the exponent θ being arbitrary and positive. It is shown that an analytic expression can be found for the gravitational field
Kz, in terms of confluent hypergeometric functions, the limiting trends being Kz∼z for z →0, while Kz
→ constant for z → infinity. We also study the behaviour of < |z(m)|2>,i.e. the dispersion of the distance from the galactic disc for the stars of massm. It is seen that the quantity < |z(m)|2>∼ mt-θ, for m→ t, while it departs significantly from this harmonic oscillator behaviour for stars of lighter masses. It is suggested
that observation of < |z(m)|2> can be used as a probe to findx and hence obtain information about the mass spectrum. 相似文献
9.
SOHO/MDI magnetograms have been used to analyze the longitude distribution of the squared solar magnetic field 〈B
2〉 in the activity cycle no. 23. The energy of the magnetic field (〈B
2〉) is shown to change with longitude. However, these variations hardly fit the concept of active longitudes. In the epochs
of high solar activity, one can readily see a relationship between longitude variations of the medium-strong ((|B| > 50 G or |B| > 100 G) and relatively weak (|B| ≤ 50 G or |B| ≤ 100 G) fields at all latitudes. In other periods, this relationship is revealed mainly at the latitudes not higher than
30°. The background fields (|B| ≤ 25 G) also display longitude variations, which are, however, not related to those of the strong fields. This makes us
think that the fields of solar activity are rather inclusions to the general field than the source of the latter. 相似文献
10.
Wavelet Analysis of solar,solar wind and geomagnetic parameters 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
The sunspot number, solar wind plasma, interplanetary magnetic field, and geomagnetic activity index A
p have been analyzed using a wavelet technique to look for the presence of periods and the temporal evolution of these periods. The global wavelet spectra of these parameters, which provide information about the temporal average strength of quasi periods, exhibit the presence of a variety of prominent quasi periods around 16 years, 10.6 years, 9.6 years, 5.5 years, 1.3 years, 180 days, 154 days, 27 days, and 14 days. The wavelet spectra of sunspot number during 1873–2000, geomagnetic activity index A
p during 1932–2000, and solar wind velocity and interplanetary magnetic field during 1964–2000 indicate that their spectral power evolves with time. In general, the power of the oscillations with a period of less than one year evolves rapidly with the phase of the solar cycle with their peak values changing from one cycle to the next. The temporal evolution of wavelet power in R
z, v
sw, n, B
y, B
z, |B|, and A
p for each of the prominent quasi periods is studied in detail. 相似文献
11.
A. V. Mordvinov 《Solar physics》2007,246(2):445-456
A comparative analysis of solar and heliospheric magnetic fields in terms of their cumulative sums reveals cyclic and long-term
changes that appear as a magnetic flux imbalance and alternations of dominant magnetic polarities. The global magnetic flux
imbalance of the Sun manifests itself in the solar mean magnetic field (SMMF) signal. The north – south asymmetry of solar
activity and the quadrupole mode of the solar magnetic field contribute the most to the observed magnetic flux imbalance.
The polarity asymmetry exhibits the Hale magnetic cycle in both the radial and azimuthal components of the interplanetary
magnetic field (IMF). Analysis of the cumulative sums of the IMF components clearly reveals cyclic changes in the IMF geometry.
The accumulated deviations in the IMF spiral angle from its nominal value also demonstrate long-term changes resulting from
a slow increase of the solar wind speed over 1965 – 2006. A predominance of the positive IMF B
z
with a significant linear trend in its cumulative signal is interpreted as a manifestation of the relic magnetic field of
the Sun. Long-term changes in the IMF B
z
are revealed. They demonstrate decadal changes owing to the 11/22-year solar cycle. Long-duration time intervals with a dominant
negative B
z
component were found in temporal patterns of the cumulative sum of the IMF B
z
. 相似文献
12.
Helios-1 and 2 spacecraft allowed a detailed investigation of the radial dependence of the interplanetary magnetic field components between 0.3 and 1 AU. The behaviour of the radial component B
ris in a very good agreement with Parker's model (B
r r
-2) and the azimuthal component B
also shows a radial dependence which is close to theoretical predictions (B
r
-1). Experimental results for the normal component B
and for the field magnitude B are consistent with those from previous investigations. The relative amplitude of the directional fluctuations with periods less than 12 hr is essentially independent of heliocentric distance, while their power decreases approximately as r
–3 without any appreciable difference between higher and lower velocity regimes.Also at Laboratorio Plasma nello Spazio, CNR, Frascati. 相似文献
13.
Previous global models of coronal magnetic fields have used a geometrical construction based on a spherical source surface because of requirements for computational speed. As a result they have had difficulty accounting for (a) the tendency of full magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) models to predict non-radial plasma flow out to r 10r
and (b) the appreciable magnitude, 3, of B
r
, (the radial component of B) consistently observed at r 1 AU. We present a new modelling technique based on a non-spherical source surface, which is taken to be an isogauss of the underlying potential field generated by currents in or below the photosphere. This modification of the source surface significantly improves the agreement between the geometrical construction and the MHD solution while retaining most of the computational ease provided by a spherical source surface. A detailed comparison between the present source-surface model and the MHD solution is made for the internal dipole case. The resulting B field agrees well in magnitude and direction with the coronal B field derived from the full MHD equations. It shows evidence of the slightly equatorward meridional plasma flow that is characteristic of the MHD solution. Moreover, the B field obtained by using our non-spherical source surface agrees well with that observed by spacecraft in the vicinity of the Earth's orbit. Applied to a solar dipole field with a moment of 1 G-r
3
, the present model predicts that B
r
at r 1 AU lies in the range of 1–2 and is remarkably insensitive to heliomagnetic latitude. Our method should be applicable also to more general (i.e., more realistic) configurations of the solar magnetic field. Isogauss surfaces for two representative solar rotations, as calculated from expansions of observed photospheric magnetic-field data, are found to show large and significant deviations from sphericity. 相似文献
14.
We investigate numerically the chemodynamical evolution of major disc–disc galaxy mergers in order to explore the origin of
the mass-dependent chemical, photometric and spectroscopic properties observed in elliptical galaxies. We investigate especially
the dependence of the fundamental properties on merger progenitor disc mass (M
d). Three main results are obtained in this study:– More massive (luminous) ellipticals formed by galaxy mergers between more
massive spirals have higher metallicity (Z) and thus show redder colours; the typical metallicity ranges from ∼ 1.0 solar abundance (Z∼ 0.02) for ellipticals formed by mergers with M
d = 1010
M
⊙to ∼ 2.0 solar (Z∼ 0.04) for those with M
d= 1012
M
⊙.– Both the Mg2 line index in the central part of ellipticals (R ≤ 0.1 R
e) and the radial gradient of Mg2 (δ Mg2 / δ log R) are more likely to be larger for massive ellipticals. δ Mg2 / δ log R correlates reasonably well with the central Mg2 in ellipticals. For most of the present merger models, ellipticals show a positive radial gradient of the Hβ line index. – Both M/L
B and M/L
K (where M, L
B, and L
K are the total stellar mass of galaxy mergers, the B-band and the K-band luminosities, respectively) depend on galactic mass in such a way that more massive ellipticals have larger M/L
B and smaller M/L
K.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
15.
To study the quantitative relationship between the brightness of the coronal green line 530.5 nm Fe xiv and the strength of the magnetic field in the corona, we have calculated the cross-correlation of the corresponding synoptic
maps for the period 1977 – 2001. The maps of distribution of the green-line brightness I were plotted using every-day monitoring data. The maps of the magnetic field strength B and the tangential B
t and radial B
r field components at the distance 1.1 R
⊙ were calculated under potential approximation from the Wilcox Solar Observatory (WSO) photospheric data. It is shown that
the correlation I with the field and its components calculated separately for the sunspot formation zone ±30° and the zone 40 – 70° has a cyclic
character, the corresponding correlation coefficients in these zones changing in anti-phase. In the sunspot formation zone,
all three coefficients are positive and have the greatest values near the cycle minimum decreasing significantly by the maximum.
Above 40°, the coefficients are alternating in sign and reach the greatest positive values at the maximum and the greatest
negative values, at the minimum of the cycle. It is inferred that the green-line emission in the zone ±30° is mainly controlled
by B
t, probably due to the existence of low arch systems. In the high-latitude zone, particularly at the minimum of the cycle,
an essential influence is exerted by B
r, which may be a manifestation of the dominant role of large-scale magnetic fields. Near the activity minimum, when the magnetic
field organization is relatively simple, the relation between I and B for the two latitudinal zones under consideration can be represented as a power-law function of the type I ∝ B
q. In the sunspot formation zone, the power index q is positive and varies from 0.75 to 1.00. In the zone 40 – 70°, it is negative and varies from −0.6 to −0.8. It is found
that there is a short time interval approximately at the middle of the ascending branch of the cycle, when the relationship
between I and B vanishes. The results obtained are considered in relation to various mechanisms of the corona heating. 相似文献
16.
Z. F. Gao N. Wang J. P. Yuan L. Jiang D. L. Song E. L. Qiao 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2011,333(2):427-435
In this paper, we consider the effect of Landau levels on the decay of superhigh magnetic fields of magnetars. Applying 3
P
2 anisotropic neutron superfluid theory yield a second-order differential equation for a superhigh magnetic field B and its evolutionary timescale t. The superhigh magnetic fields may evolve on timescales ∼(106–107) yrs for common magnetars. According to our model, the activity of a magnetar may originate from instability caused by the
high electron Fermi energy. 相似文献
17.
Although the sunspots migrate towards the equator, the large-scale weak diffuse magnetic fields of the Sun migrate poleward with the solar cycle, the polar field reversing at the time of the sunspot maxima. We apply the vector model of Dikpati and Choudhuri (1994, Paper I) to fit these observations. The dynamo layer at the base of the convection zone is taken to be the source of the diffuse field, which is then evolved in the convection zone subject to meridional circulation and turbulent diffusion. We find that the longitudinally averaged observational data can be fitted reasonably well both for positive and negative values of the-effect by adjusting the subsurface meridional flow suitably. The model will be extended in a future paper to include the decay of active regions as an extra source of the diffuse field, which may be necessary to explain the probable phase lag betweenB
r andB
at lower latitudes. 相似文献
18.
Thirteen synoptic maps of expansion rate of the coronal magnetic field (CMF; RBR) calculated by the so-called ‘potential model’ are constructed for 13 Carrington rotations from the maximum phase of solar activity cycle 22 through the maximum phase of cycle 23. Similar 13 synoptic maps of solar wind speed (SWS) estimated by interplanetary scintillation observations are constructed for the same 13 Carrington rotations as the ones for the RBR. The correlation diagrams between the RBR and the SWS are plotted with the data of these 13 synoptic maps. It is found that the correlation is negative and high in this time period. It is further found that the linear correlation is improved if the data are classified into two groups by the magnitude of radial component of photospheric magnetic field, |Bphor|; group 1, 0.0 G ≦ |Brpho| < 17.8 G and group 2, 17.8 G ≦ |Brpho|. There exists a strong negative correlation between the RBR and the SWS for the group 1 in contrast with a weak negative correlation for the group 2. Group 1 has a double peak in the density distribution of data points in the correlation diagram; a sharp peak for high-speed solar wind and a low peak for low-speed solar wind. These two peaks are located just on the axis of maximum variance of data points in the correlation diagram. This result suggests that the solar wind consists of two major components and both the high-speed and the low-speed winds emanating from weak photospheric magnetic regions are accelerated by the same mechanism in the course of solar activity cycle. It is also pointed out that the SWS can be estimated by the RBR of group 1 with an empirical formula obtained in this paper during the entire solar activity cycle. 相似文献
19.
Bernard R. Durney 《Solar physics》1995,160(2):213-235
A dynamo model of the Babcock-Leighton type having the following features is studied. The toroidal fieldB
is generated in a thin layer (the GL), located at the lower solar convection zone, by a shear in the angular velocity acting on the poloidal fieldB
p
(= × [0, 0,A
].) If, in this layer, and for a certain value of the polar angle,, |B
Ø
| exceeds a critical field,B
cr
, then the eruption of a flux tube occurs. This flux tube, which is assumed to rise radially, generates, when reaching the surface, a bipolar magnetic region (BMR) with fluxes
p
and
f
for the preceding and following spot respectively. For the purpose of the numerical calculations this BMR is replaced by its equivalent axisymmetrical magnetic ring doublet. The ensemble of these eruptions acts as the source term for the poloidal field. This field, generated in the surface layers, reaches the lower solar convection by transport due to meridional motions and by diffusion. The meridional motions are the superpositions of a one-cell velocity field that rises at the equator and sinks at the poles and of a two-cell circulation that rises at the equator and poles and sinks at mid latitudes. The toroidal field andA
Ø
were expanded in Legendre polynomials, and the coupled partial differential equations (int andr; time and radial coordinate) satisfied by the coefficients in these expansions were solved by a finite difference method. In the expansions, Legendre polynomials up to order thirty were included.In spite of an exhaustive search no solutions were found with
p
= –
f
. The solutions presented in this paper were obtained with p = –0.5
f
. In this case, the northern and southern hemisphere are not entirely decoupled since lines of force join both hemispheres. Most of the solutions found were periodic. For the one-cell meridional flow described above and for a purely radial shear in the GL (the angular velocity increasing inwards) the dynamo wave propagates from the pole towards the equator. The new cycle starts at the poles while the old cycle is still present in the equatorial regions. 相似文献
20.
Y.-M. Wang 《Solar physics》2004,224(1-2):21-35
The Sun’s large-scale external field is formed through the emergence of magnetic flux in active regions and its subsequent
dispersal over the solar surface by differential rotation, supergranular convection, and meridional flow. The observed evolution
of the polar fields and open flux (or interplanetary field) during recent solar cycles can be reproduced by assuming a supergranular
diffusion rate of 500 – 600 km2 s−1 and a poleward flow speed of 10 –20 m s−1. The nonaxisymmetric component of the large-scale field decays on the flow timescale of ∼1 yr and must be continually regenerated
by new sunspot activity. Stochastic fluctuations in the longitudinal distribution of active regions can produce large peaks
in the Sun’s equatorial dipole moment and in the interplanetary field strength during the declining phase of the cycle; by
the same token, they can lead to sudden weakenings of the large-scale field near sunspot maximum (Gnevyshev gaps). Flux transport
simulations over many solar cycles suggest that the meridional flow speed is correlated with cycle amplitude, with the flow
being slower during less active cycles. 相似文献