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  • 标题:Can the long-term hemispheric asymmetry of solar activity result from fluctuations in dynamo parameters?
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  • 作者:Alexander Nepomnyashchikh ; Sudip Mandal ; Dipankar Banerjee
  • 期刊名称:Astronomy & Astrophysics
  • 印刷版ISSN:0004-6361
  • 电子版ISSN:1432-0746
  • 出版年度:2019
  • 卷号:625
  • DOI:10.1051/0004-6361/201935224
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:EDP Sciences
  • 摘要:Context. The hemispheric asymmetry of sunspot activity observed possesses a regular component varying on a timescale of several solar cycles whose origin and properties are currently debated.AimsThis paper addresses the question of whether the long-term hemispheric asymmetry can result from random variations of solar dynamo parameters in time and latitude.Methods. Scatter in the observed tilt angles of sunspot groups was estimated to infer constraints on fluctuations in the dynamo mechanism for poloidal field regeneration. A dynamo model with fluctuations in the Babcock-Leighton typeα-effect was designed in accordance with these constraints and then used to compute a large number of magnetic cycles for statistical analyses of their hemispheric asymmetry.ResultsHemispheric asymmetry in the simulated dynamo results from the presence of an equator-symmetric part in the oscillating magnetic field. The sub-dominant quadrupolar oscillations are stochastically forced by dominant dipolar oscillations via the equator-symmetric part of the fluctuatingα-effect. The amplitude and sense of the asymmetry of individual cycles varies on a timescale of the order of four dynamo-cycle periods. The variations are irregular and not periodic. The model suggests that asymmetry in the polar magnetic fields in the solar minima can be used as a precursor for asymmetry of sunspot activity in the following solar cycle.
  • 关键词:enSun: activitySun: magnetic fieldsdynamo
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