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Solar Differential Rotation Revealed by Helioseismology and Simulations of Deep Shells of Turbulent Convection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

Juri Toomre  and
Allan Sacha Brun
Juri Toomre
Affiliation:
JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0440, USA
Allan Sacha Brun*
Affiliation:
JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0440, USA
*
New permanent address: DSM/DAPNIA/SAp, CE Saclay, 91191 Gif sur Yvette, France.

Abstract

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The sun is supposedly a very simple star, halfway along its long and possibly boring life on the main sequence. Yet it has some distinguishing features. Since we live close to it, our existence is probably blessed by this star having only modest cycles of magnetic activity and weak winds. By being so close, we can observe many aspects of the diverse range of motions and magnetic fields linked to turbulent convection in its convection zone. And this turns out to be anything but simple as we consider the dynamical coupling of convection, rotation and magnetism within this modest star. The lessons that have emerged from recent helioseismic probing of the solar interior and from 3–D numerical simulations of turbulent convection have bearing on differential rotation and magnetic dynamo action also occurring within more complex stars. We consider recent findings from both helioseismology and theoretical modelling on the operation of the deep shell of vigorous convection within our nearest star.

Type
Session 3 Rotation, Solar and Stellar Physics
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 215: Stellar Rotation , 2004 , pp. 326 - 331
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004 

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