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太阳速跃层的磁约束:II。耦合到对流区

Magnetic confinement of the solar tachocline: II. Coupling to a convection zone

A. Strugarek, A. S. Brun, J. -P. Zahn

摘要:

观测到的太阳速跃层薄的原因仍然没有很好的理解。已经提出的解释之一是,原始磁场使辐射区的旋转均匀。我们在这里测试的有效性,通过3D数值MHD模拟,包括辐射区和对流区的这种磁性的情况下。采用滞弹性球谐函数(ASH)程序进行了数值模拟。计算域从$0.07\;R_\odot$扩展到$0.97\;R_\odot$。在我们研究的参数区域中,与旋转轴对齐的偶极化石场不能保持被限制在辐射区中。当场线被允许与对流区底部的湍流非定常对流运动相互作用时,3D效应防止了场约束。与之前的工作一致,我们发现偶极化石场,即使最初深埋在辐射区内部,也会扩散到对流区。根据费拉罗等旋定律,它在辐射带上留下了对流带纬向差异旋转的印记,这是没有观察到的。

英文摘要:

The reason for the observed thinness of the solar tachocline is still not well understood. One of the explanations that have been proposed is that a primordial magnetic field renders the rotation uniform in the radiation zone. We test here the validity of this magnetic scenario through 3D numerical MHD simulations that encompass both the radiation zone and the convection zone. The numerical simulations are performed with the anelastic spherical harmonics (ASH) code. The computational domain extends from $0.07\;R_\odot$ to $0.97\;R_\odot$. In the parameter regime we explored, a dipolar fossil field aligned with the rotation axis can not remain confined in the radiation zone. When the field lines are allowed to interact with turbulent unstationary convective motions at the base of the convection zone, 3D effects prevent the field confinement. In agreement with previous work, we find that a dipolar fossil field, even when it is initially buried deep inside the radiation zone, will spread into the convective zone. According to Ferraro's law of iso-rotation, it then imprints on the radiation zone the latitudinal differential rotation of the convection zone, which is not observed.

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