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The excitation mechanism of solar five-minute oscillations is studied in the present paper. We calculated the non-adiabatic oscillations of low- and intermediate-degree (l = 1  25) g4-p39 modes for the Sun. Both the thermodynamic and dynamic couplings are taken into account by using our non-local and time-dependent theory of convection. The results show that all the lowfrequencyf- and p-modes with periods P > 5.4 min are pulsationally unstable, while the coupling between convection and oscillations is neglected. However, when the convection coupling is taken into account, all the g- and low-frequency f- and p-modes with periods longer than 16 minutes (except the low-degree p1-modes) and the high frequency p-modes with periods shorter than 3 minutes become stable, and the intermediate-frequency p-modes with period from 3 to 16 minutes are pulsationally unstable. The pulsation amplitude growth rates depend only on the frequency and almost do not depend on l. They achieve the maximum at ν 3700 μHz (or P 270 sec). The coupling between convection and oscillations plays a key role for stabilization of low-frequency f- and p-modes and excitation of intermediate-frequency p-modes. We propose that the solar 5-minute oscillations are not caused by any single excitation mechanism, but they are resulted from the combined effect of “regular” coupling between convection and oscillations and turbulent stochastic excitation. For low- and intermediatefrequency p-modes, the coupling between convection and oscillations dominates; while for high-frequency modes, stochastic excitation dominates.  相似文献   

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The gravitational instability of expanding shells evolving in a homogeneous and static medium is discussed. In the low density environment (n = 1 cm-3), the fragmentation starts in shells with diameters of a few 100 pc and fragment masses are in the range of 5 × 103 - 106 M . In the high density environment (n = 105 - 107 cm-3), shells fragment at diameters of pc producing clumps of stellar masses. The mass spectrum in both environments is approximated by a power law dN/dmm -2.3. This is close to the slope of the stellar IMF. To reproduce the observed mass spectrum of clouds (the spectral index close to ∼ -2.0) we have to assume, that the cloud formation time is independent of the cloud size, similarly to the Jeans unstable medium. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.  相似文献   

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In an attempt to explain the observed rotation profile in the solar radiative zone and the tachocline, Spiegel & Zahn proposed a model based on anisotropic turbulent angular momentum transport. Although very successful in reproducing some of the features of the solar tachocline, their model assumes without verification that the origin of the turbulence could be caused by latitudinal shear instability. This paper studies the weakly non-linear evolution of two-dimensional shear instability, in which the interaction between the global rotation profile and the Reynolds stresses can be described self-consistently. Provided that the initial rotation profile is sufficiently close to marginal stability (which is the case of the solar tachocline), the instability is shown to saturate and to relax to a marginally stable state, which differs very little from the observed rotation profile. It is therefore likely that the tachocline is in a state of marginal stability with respect to latitudinal shear instability, and shows that angular momentum transport in the tachocline is unlikely to be caused by shear-induced turbulence.  相似文献   

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Solar irradiance measurements from the ACRIM experiment show a clear response to the rotation periods of g-mode oscillations (l = 1, 2, and 3) and their first harmonics. Peaks in the ACRIM spectrum at 16.6, 18.3, 20.7, 36.5, and - 71 days all lie within about 1% of periods arising from g-mode rotation. This means that the g-modes are a fundamental cause of irradiance fluctuations. On time scales of months and less they modulate the irradiance by means of transient flows of global scale which they stimulate in the Sun's convective envelope. Dimensional arguments indicate that the flows carry up heat at an average rate 10-3 L which is not in conflict with observed changes in the irradiance. Five additional tests for g-modes and large-scale convection are given. An instability is described which undermines diffusion models of sunspot energy storage.  相似文献   

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We investigate the equilibrium, oscillations, and stability of uniformly rotating masses with a toroidal magnetic field, proportional with the distance to te axis of rotation. The equilibrium is an oblate or prolate spheroid according as the rotational energy is greater or smaller than the magnetic energy. The sequence of equilibrium figures exhibits a maximum value for the angular velocity in the oblate case and a maximum for the angular momentum in the prolate case. The dispersion relation is derived using Bryan's modified spheroidal coordinates. One obtains 2(n–m)+4 solutions for the oscillation frequency ifm0 and 1/2n or 1/2(n+1) solutions for 2 according asn is even or odd ifm=0. The point where the Jacobi ellipsoids bifurcate from the MacLaurin sequence is unaffected by the magnetic field. However, the points of the onset of dynamical instability corresponding to the second and third harmonics and the point where a pear-shaped sequence bifurcate, depend upon the magnetic field. They are shifted to higher values for the eccentricity and can be suppressed by a sufficiently large magnetic field.  相似文献   

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We study some simple periodic orbits and their bifurcations in the Hamiltonian . We give the forms of the orbits, the characteristics of the main families, and some existence diagrams and stability diagrams. The existence diagram of the family 1a contains regions that are stable (S), simply unstable (U), doubly unstable (DU) and complex unstable (). In the regionsS andU there are lines of equal rotation numberm/n. Along these lines we have bifurcations of families of periodic orbits of multiplicityn. When these lines reach the boundary of the complex unstable region, they are tangent to it. Inside the region there are linesm/n, along which the orbits 1a, describedn-times, are doubly unstable; however, along these lines there are no bifurcations ofn-ple periodic orbits. The families bifurcating from 1a exist only in certain regions of the parameter space (, ). The limiting lines of these regions join at particular points representing collisions of bifurcations. These collisions of bifurcations produce a nonuniqueness of the various families of periodic orbits. The complicated structure of the various bifurcations can be understood by constructing appropriate stability diagrams.  相似文献   

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A plane-wave analysis on a simplified scheme based on the Boussinesq approximation and shallow convection is used to establish the necessary conditions for stability of a differentiallyrotating, compressible flow between two coaxial cylinders subject to non-axisymmetric perturbations. To test the adequateness of this simplification, the sufficient conditions for stability are again established which agree with those obtained by a normal-mode analysis on an exact scheme in an earlier paper by the author. This model is applicable to stellar models with rotation Ω=Ω(ω), where ω is the radial distance from the axis of rotation (thez-axis). A necessary condition for stability, in the non-dissipative case, is found to be that $$\frac{1}{\varrho }G_\varpi S_\varpi + \frac{{k_z^2 }}{M}\Phi - \frac{1}{4}\frac{{m^2 }}{M}\left( {D\Omega } \right)^2 \geqslant 0$$ everywhere. Here,m andk z are the wave numbers in the ø- andz-direction, \(M \equiv k_z^2 + m^2 /\varpi ^2 ,D \equiv d/d\varpi ,G_\varpi \equiv - \varrho ^{ - 1} Dp,\varrho \) the density,p the pressure,S ω and Φ the Schwarzschild and the Rayleigh discriminants defined as \(S_\varpi \equiv \left( {\gamma p/\varrho } \right)^{ - 2} Dp - D\varrho and \Phi \equiv ^{ - 3} d\left( {\varpi ^4 \Omega ^2 } \right)/d\varpi \) respectively, γ the ratio of specific heats. This condition is also a sufficient one. Some conjectures regarding the stabilizing influence of uniform rotation and the destabilizing influence of differential rotation are also verified. The most striking instability mechanism introduced by shear forces and by radiative dissipation is the excitation of the stable motion of small oscillations into that of oscillations with growing amplitude, i. e., overstability. In the case of radiative dissipation and axisymmetric perturbations, the Goldreich-Schubert criterion is only necessary but not sufficient for stability. Instability sets in as soon as the Schwarzschild criterion is violated. When the perturbations are non-axisymmetric, instability always sets in as overstability as long as rotation is differential. This may explain the convective turbulence in the upper atmosphere where the radiation is active.  相似文献   

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A new general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) code “RAISHIN” used to simulate jet generation by rotating and non-rotating black holes with a geometrically thin Keplarian accretion disk finds that the jet develops a spine-sheath structure in the rotating black hole case. Spine-sheath structure and strong magnetic fields significantly modify the Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) velocity shear driven instability. The RAISHIN code has been used in its relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) configuration to study the effects of strong magnetic fields and weakly relativistic sheath motion, c/2, on the KH instability associated with a relativistic, γ=2.5, jet spine-sheath interaction. In the simulations sound speeds up to and Alfvén wave speeds up to ∼0.56c are considered. Numerical simulation results are compared to theoretical predictions from a new normal mode analysis of the RMHD equations. Increased stability of a weakly magnetized system resulting from c/2 sheath speeds and stabilization of a strongly magnetized system resulting from c/2 sheath speeds is found.  相似文献   

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We consider the symmetric planar (3 + 1)-body problem with finite masses m 1 = m 2 = 1, m 3 = µ and one small mass m 4 = . We count the number of central configurations of the restricted case = 0, where the finite masses remain in an equilateral triangle configuration, by means of the bifurcation diagram with as the parameter. The diagram shows a folding bifurcation at a value consistent with that found numerically by Meyer [9] and it is shown that for small > 0 the bifurcation diagram persists, thus leading to an exact count of central configurations and a folding bifurcation for small m 4 > 0.  相似文献   

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A WKB approach, based on the method of Connor, Hastie, and Taylor (1979), is used to obtain simple estimates of the critical conditions for the onset of ideal MHD instabilities in line-tied solar coronal loops. The method is illustrated for the constant twist, Gold-Hoyle (1960) field, and the critical conditions are compared with previous and new numerical results. For the force-free case, the WKB estimate for the critical loop length reduces to . For the sufficiently non-force-free case the critical length can be expressed in the forml 0 +l 1/m. The results confirm the findings of De Bruyne and Hood (1992) that for force-free fields them = 1 mode is the first mode to become unstable but for the sufficiently strong non-force-free case this reverses with them → ∞ mode being excited first.  相似文献   

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The non-axisymmetric oscillations and stability of a homogeneous self-gravitating rotating cylinder are investigated. Two infinite discrete spectra of rotational modes arises. Dynamical and secular instability occur for wavelengths situated in a certain interval, if 2>(m – 1 )/2m where denotes the angular velocity andm the azimuthal wave-number. Modes of maximum instability and maximum growth rates are determined. Viscosity reduces the growth rate of smaller wavelengths but increases the instability of the longer wavelengths. We show that the onset of secular instability is associated with a point of neutral oscillation.  相似文献   

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Shear flow instability is studied in the planar magnetopause boundary layer region by treating the plasma as compressible. A necessary criterion for instability near the cusp resonance is obtained analytically. The criterion depends on plasma, Alfvén Mach numberM A and the ratio of the scale lengths of the gradients in the flow and Alfvén velocities. The instability at the cusp resonance layer can be excited rather easily for the low plasma and for shear flow scale length smaller than the typical scale length over which Alfvén velocity varies. The growth rate for instability is obtained for any from a cubic equation. The unstable modes may contribute to the ULF wave activity at the magnetopause.  相似文献   

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The stability of magnetic flux tubes embedded vertically in a convection zone is investigated. For thin tubes, the dominant instability is of the convective type, i.e. it is driven by buoyancy forces associated with displacements along the tube. The stability is determined by = 8P/B 2; if c the tube is convectively stable, otherwise it is unstable, where the critical value c depends on the stratification of the convection zone. For a solar convection zone model, c = 1.83, corresponding to a magnetic field strength of 1350 G at the surface of the Sun. It is concluded that the flux tubes making up the small scale field of the Sun are probably hydrodynamically stable.In tubes with > c, the instability is expected to transform the tube either into a state of vanishing surface field strength (in the case of an upward flow), or one with a field strength higher than the original value (if the instability sets in as a downward flow). Following Parker, we suggest that this effect is related to the concentrated nature of the observed solar fields.The National Center for Atmospheric Research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.  相似文献   

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Starting from the Vlasov equation the steady state and stability properties of the electron sheet in the Cowley neutral sheet model of the geomagnetic tail are considered. Electrostatic ion plasma oscillations propagating from dusk to dawn are found to be unstable provided the thermal spread normal to the current is sufficiently large. Assuming the population of the neutral sheet to be supplied by the polar wind it is shown how a localisation of the cross tail electric field could lead to the instability first appearing around midnight. It is conjectured that the localisation of the cross tail electric field could continually feed the instability, so leading to enough turbulence to give enhanced reconnection of the magnetic field.List of symbols f distribution function - B magnetic field strength far from the neutral sheet - a sheet half thickness - total potential drop across the tail which is localised to the dusk end of the tail in Cowley's model - potential for the steady state electric field normal to the electron current sheet. This potential exists in that region of the tail that excludes the localised region of cross tail electric field - average velocity across the tail of electrons in the current sheet - v average velocity of the electrons normal to the current sheet - p canonical momentum of a particle - energy of a particle - KT electron energy normal to the sheet (1/2m e v 2 ) - KT i ion energy (1/2m i V 2 ) - electron gyrofrequency far from the neutral sheet - i ion gyrofrequency far from the neutral sheet - Ay steady state vector potential for the magnetic field - A –Ay/aB 0 (normalised vector potential) When perturbing the steady state, dashes have been used to denote the time dependent first order quantities. Where no confusion could arise the dashes are dropped, e.g.Ey=Ey since there is no zero orderEy in the region considered in the stability analysis.  相似文献   

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We provide a theory of magnetic diffusion, momentum transport, and mixing in the solar tachocline by considering magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) turbulence on a β plane subject to a large scale shear (provided by the latitudinal differential rotation). In the strong magnetic field regime, we find that the turbulent viscosity and diffusivity are reduced by magnetic fields only, similarly to the two-dimensional MHD case (without Rossby waves). In the weak magnetic field regime, we find a crossover scale (LR) from a Alfvén dominated regime (on small scales) to a Rossby dominated regime (on large scales). For parameter values typical of the tachocline, LR is larger than the solar radius so that Rossby waves are unlikely to play an important role in the transport of magnetic field and angular momentum. This is mainly due to the enhancement of magnetic back-reaction by shearing which efficiently generates small scales, thus strong currents. (© 2007 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)  相似文献   

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The velocity shear of ion beams observed in the polar cusp region can drive the kinetic Alfvén modes unstable. A hot ion beam can excite both a resonant kinetic Alfvén wave instability and a nonresonant coupled Alfvén ion-acoustic wave instability. For the case of a cold ion beam only the latter instability is excited. For the altitude range of 5–7R e , velocity shearS0.04–1.0 is needed to excite the kinetic Alfvén wave instabilities. HereS=(dV B / cB dx), whereV b is the streaming velocity,and cB is the gyrofrequency of the bean ions. The excited modes have frequencies, in the satellite frame of reference, in the ULF frequency range. The noise generated by the velocity shear-driven Alfvén modes is electromagnetic in nature. These modes have a substantial component of parallel electric fields and, therefore, they can play an important role in the ionosphere-magnetosphere coupling process occurring in the polar cusp region.  相似文献   

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If fluctuations in the density are neglected, the large-scale, axisymmetric azimuthal momentum equation for the solar convection zone (SCZ) contains only the velocity correlations and where u are the turbulent convective velocities and the brackets denote a large-scale average. The angular velocity, , and meridional motions are expanded in Legendre polynomials and in these expansions only the two leading terms are retained (for example, where is the polar angle). Per hemisphere, the meridional circulation is, in consequence, the superposition of two flows, characterized by one, and two cells in latitude respectively. Two equations can be derived from the azimuthal momentum equation. The first one expresses the conservation of angular momentum and essentially determines the stream function of the one-cell flow in terms of : the convective motions feed angular momentum to the inner regions of the SCZ and in the steady state a meridional flow must be present to remove this angular momentum. The second equation contains also the integral indicative of a transport of angular momentum towards the equator.With the help of a formalism developed earlier we evaluate, for solid body rotation, the velocity correlations and for several values of an arbitrary parameter, D, left unspecified by the theory. The most striking result of these calculations is the increase of with D. Next we calculate the turbulent viscosity coefficients defined by whereC ro 0 and C o 0 are the velocity correlations for solid body rotation. In these calculations it was assumed that 2 was a linear function of r. The arbitrary parameter D was chosen so that the meridional flow vanishes at the surface for the rotation laws specified below. The coefficients v ro i and v 0o i that allow for the calculation of C ro and C 0o for any specified rotation law (with the proviso that 2 be linear) are the turbulent viscosity coefficients. These coefficients comply well with intuitive expectations: v ro 1 and –v 0o 3 are the largest in each group, and v 0o 3 is negative.The equations for the meridional flow were first solved with 0 and 2 two linear functions of r ( 0 1 = – 2 × 10 –12 cm –1) and ( 2 1 = – 6 × 10 12 cm –1). The corresponding angular velocity increases slightly inwards at the poles and decreases at the equator in broad agreement with heliosismic observations. The computed meridional motions are far too large ( 150m s–1). Reasonable values for the meridional motions can only be obtained if o (and in consequence ), increase sharply with depth below the surface. The calculated meridional motion at the surface consists of a weak equatorward flow for gq < 29° and of a stronger poleward flow for > 29°.In the Sun, the Taylor-Proudman balance (the Coriolis force is balanced by the pressure gradient), must be altered to include the buoyancy force. The consequences of this modification are far reaching: is not required, now, to be constant along cylinders. Instead, the latitudinal dependence of the superadiabatic gradient is determined by the rotation law. For the above rotation laws, the corresponding latitudinal variations of the convective flux are of the order of 7% in the lower SCZ.  相似文献   

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