The solar dynamo begins near the surface.


Journal

Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
May 2024
Historique:
received: 19 08 2023
accepted: 14 03 2024
medline: 23 5 2024
pubmed: 23 5 2024
entrez: 22 5 2024
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

The magnetic dynamo cycle of the Sun features a distinct pattern: a propagating region of sunspot emergence appears around 30° latitude and vanishes near the equator every 11 years (ref. 

Identifiants

pubmed: 38778233
doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07315-1
pii: 10.1038/s41586-024-07315-1
doi:

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Journal Article

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eng

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IM

Pagination

769-772

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© 2024. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Geoffrey M Vasil (GM)

School of Mathematics and the Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. gvasil@ed.ac.uk.

Daniel Lecoanet (D)

Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
CIERA, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.

Kyle Augustson (K)

Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
CIERA, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.

Keaton J Burns (KJ)

Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute, New York, NY, USA.

Jeffrey S Oishi (JS)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Bates College, Lewiston, ME, USA.

Benjamin P Brown (BP)

Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA.

Nicholas Brummell (N)

Department of Applied Mathematics, Jack Baskin School of Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.

Keith Julien (K)

Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA.

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