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Title:
Dynamics of the solar tachocline - II. The stratified case
Authors:
Garaud, P.; Garaud, J.-D.
Affiliation:
AA(Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Baskin School of Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA), AB(Centre des Matériaux, Mines Paristech/CNRS UMR 7633, Evry, France)
Publication:
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 391, Issue 3, pp. 1239-1258. (MNRAS Homepage)
Publication Date:
12/2008
Origin:
MNRAS
MNRAS Keywords:
MHD , Sun: interior , Sun: magnetic fields , Sun: rotation
DOI:
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13930.x
Bibliographic Code:
2008MNRAS.391.1239G

Abstract

We present a detailed numerical study of the Gough & McIntyre model for the solar tachocline. This model explains the uniformity of the rotation profile observed in the bulk of the radiative zone by the presence of a large-scale primordial magnetic field, confined below the tachocline by flows originating from within the convection zone. We attribute the failure of previous numerical attempts at reproducing even qualitatively Gough & McIntyre's idea to the use of inappropriate boundary conditions at the radiative-convective interface. We emphasize the key role of flows downwelling from the convection zone in confining the assumed internal field. We carefully select the range of parameters used in the simulations to guarantee a faithful representation of the hierarchy of expected length-scales. We then present, for the first time, a fully non-linear and self-consistent numerical solution of the Gough & McIntyre model which qualitatively satisfies the following set of observational constraints: (i) the quenching of the large-scale differential rotation below the tachocline - including in the polar regions - as seen by helioseismology (ii) the confinement of the large-scale meridional flows to the uppermost layers of the radiative zone as required by observed light element abundances and suggested by helioseismic sound-speed data.
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