Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-xtgtn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-18T10:57:29.578Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Dynamo of the Sun and Solar-Type Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2009

N. Meunier*
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique, Observatoire de Grenoble, CNRS/Université Joseph Fourier, BP. 53, 38041 Grenoble Cedex, France
Get access

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to give a review of solar and stellar activity, from the observationnal constraints to dynamo models. I first review solar observations and insist on the various scales. Then I describe the photospheric magnetic structures (from spots and plages to the magnetic network and internetwork magnetic fields) and the energetic events in the chromosphere and corona, such as prominences, flares and coronal mass ejections. It is mostly photospheric observations (in addition to the results obtained with helioseismolohy concerning the internal rotation) which are providing the important constraints for dynamo models, that are reviewed. However the energetic events can also be used as tracers of solar activity and have a significant impact on earth. Stellar activity is then reviewed, including results on differential rotation. I insist on the comparison with solar properties. I then come back on the constraints these stellar observations bring to dynamo models.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© EAS, EDP Sciences, 2009

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Aulanier, G., DeVore, C.R., & Antiochos, S.K., 2002, ApJ, 567, L97 CrossRef
Baliunas, S., Frick, P., Moss, D., et al., 2006, MNRAS, 365, 181
Baliunas, S., & Jastrow, R., 1990, Nature, 348, 520 CrossRef
Baliunas, S.L., Donahue, R.A., Soon, W.H., et al., 1995, ApJ, 438, 269
Baliunas, S.L., Nesme-Ribes, E., Sokoloff, D., & Soon, W.H., 1996, ApJ, 460, 848 CrossRef
Beck, J.G., 2000, Sol. Phys., 191, 47 CrossRef
Beer, J., Tobias, S., & Weiss, N., 1998, Sol. Phys., 181, 237 CrossRef
Bellot Rubio, L.R., Tsuneta, S., Ichimoto, K., et al., 2007, ApJ, 668, L91
Berdyugina, S.V., 2005, Liv. Rev. Solar Phys., 2, 8
Berdyugina, S.V., Fluri, D.M., Afram, N., et al., 2008, PASPC, 384, 175
Berdyugina, S.V., & Usoskin, I.G., 2003, A&A, 405, 1121
Bogdan, T.J., Gilman, P.A., Lerche, I., & Howard, R., 1988, ApJ, 327, 451 CrossRef
Böhm-Vitense, E., 2007, ApJ, 657, 486 CrossRef
Brandenburg, A., Saar, S.H., & Turpin, C.R., 1998, ApJ, 498, L51 CrossRef
Casini, R., López Ariste, A., Tomczyk, S., & Lites, B.W., 2003, ApJ, 598, L67 CrossRef
Catala, C., Donati, J.-F., Shkolnik, E., Bohlender, D., & Alecian, E., 2007, MNRAS, 374, L42 CrossRef
Cattaneo, F., 1999, ApJ, 515, L39 CrossRef
Cattaneo, F., Emonet, T., & Weiss, N., 2003, ApJ, 588, 1183 CrossRef
Charbonneau, P., & Saar, S.H., 2001, Magnetic Fields Across the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram, ed. G. Mathys, S.K. Solanki, & D.T. Wickramasinghe, PASP, 248, 189
Cincunegui, C., Díaz, R.F., & Mauas, P.J.D., 2007, A&A, 469, 309
Collier Cameron, A., Donati, J.-F., & Semel, M., 2002, MNRAS, 330, 699 CrossRef
Crouch, A.D., Charbonneau, P., & Thibault, K., 2007, ApJ, 662, 715 CrossRef
Dikpati, M., de Toma, G., & Gilman, P.A., 2006, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, 5102 CrossRef
Dikpati, M., de Toma, G., Gilman, P.A., Arge, C.N., & White, O.R., 2004, ApJ, 601, 1136 CrossRef
Domínguez Cerdeña, I., Kneer, F., & Sánchez Almeida, J., 2003, ApJ, 582, L55 CrossRef
Donahue, R.A., Saar, S.H., & Baliunas, S.L., 1996, ApJ, 466, 384 CrossRef
Donati, J.-F., & Collier Cameron, A., 1997, MNRAS, 291, 1 CrossRef
Donati, J.-F., Collier Cameron, A., & Petit, P., 2003, MNRAS, 345, 1187 CrossRef
Dorren, J.D., & Guinan, E.F., 1982, AJ, 87, 1546 CrossRef
Duvall, T.L. Jr., 1980, Sol. Phys., 66, 213 CrossRef
Fligge, M., & Solanki, S.K., 2000, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 2157 CrossRef
Fröhlich, C., & Lean, J., 1998, Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 4377 CrossRef
Gaizauskas, V., Harvey, K.L., Harvey, J.W., & Zwaan, C., 1983, ApJ, 265, 1056 CrossRef
Giampapa, M.S., Hall, J.C., Radick, R.R., & Baliunas, S.L., 2006, ApJ, 651, 444 CrossRef
Gizon, L., Duvall, T.L., & Schou, J., 2003, Nature, 421, 43 CrossRef
Gizon, L., & Solanki, S.K., 2004, Sol. Phys., 220, 169 CrossRef
Gray, R.O., Corbally, C.J., Garrison, R.F., et al., 2006, AJ, 132, 161 CrossRef
Gray, R.O., Corbally, C.J., Garrison, R.F., McFadden, M.T., & Robinson, P.E., 2003, AJ, 126, 2048 CrossRef
Haisch, B., Strong, K.T., & Rodono, M., 1991, ARA&A, 29, 275 CrossRef
Hall, D.S., 1991, in IAU Colloq. 130: The Sun and Cool Stars. Activity, Magnetism, Dynamos, ed. I. Tuominen, D. Moss & G. Rüdiger, Lecture Notes in Physics (Berlin: Springer Verlag), 380, 353 CrossRef
Hall, D.S., & Henry, G.W., 1994, International Amateur-Professional Photoelectric Photometry Communications, 55, 51
Hall, J.C., Lockwood, G.W., & Skiff, B.A., 2007, AJ, 133, 862 CrossRef
Hanuise, C., Cerisier, J.C., Auchère, F., et al., 2006, Ann. Geophys., 24, 129 CrossRef
Hart, A.B., 1954, MNRAS, 114, 17 CrossRef
Hartmann, L., Soderblom, D.R., Noyes, R.W., Burnham, N., & Vaughan, A.H., 1984, ApJ, 276, 254 CrossRef
Harvey, K.L., 1993, Ph.D. Thesis
Hempelmann, A., & Donahue, R.A., 1997, A&A, 322, 835
Henry, G.W., Eaton, J.A., Hamer, J., & Hall, D.S., 1995, ApJS 97, 513
Henry, T.J., Soderblom, D.R., Donahue, R.A., & Baliunas, S.L., 1996, AJ, 111, 439 CrossRef
Howard, R.F., 1992, Sol. Phys., 137, 205 CrossRef
Howard, R.F., 1996, ARA&A, 34, 75 CrossRef
Järvinen, S.P., Berdyugina, S.V., & Strassmeier, K.G., 2005, A&A, 440, 735
Kolmogorov, A., 1991, Proc. R. Soc. Lond., 434, 9 CrossRef
Komm, R.W., Howard, R.F., & Harvey, J.W., 1993, Sol. Phys., 147, 207 CrossRef
Krivova, N.A., & Solanki, S.K., 2004, Adv. Space Res., 34, 361 CrossRef
Kuzanyan, K.M., 1998, in Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun, ed. R.A. Donahue & J.A. Bookbinder, Astron. Soc. of the Pacific Conf., 154, 1286
Lanza, A.F., Rodono, M., & Zappala, R.A., 1993, A&A, 269, 351 PubMed
Lawrence, J.K., Ruzmaikin, A.A., & Cadavid, A.C., 1993, ApJ, 417, 805 CrossRef
Lin, H., 1995, ApJ, 446, 421 CrossRef
Lites, B.W., Kubo, M., Socas-Navarro, H., et al., 2008, ApJ, 672, 1237 CrossRef
Lites, B.W., Leka, K.D., Skumanich, A., Martinez Pillet, V., & Shimizu, T., 1996, ApJ, 460, 1019 CrossRef
Livingston, W., & Harvey, J., 1971, in IAU Symp. 43 Solar Magnetic Fields, ed. R. Howard, 51
Lockwood, G.W., Skiff, B.A., Henry, G.W., et al., 2007, ApJS, 171, 260 CrossRef
Lockwood, G.W., Thompson, D.T., Radick, R.R., et al., 1984, PASP, 96, 714 CrossRef
Martin, S.F., 1998, Sol. Phys., 182, 107 CrossRef
Messina, S., & Guinan, E.F., 2003, A&A, 409, 1017
Meunier, N., 1999a, ApJ, 515, 801 CrossRef
Meunier, N., 1999b, ApJ, 527, 967 CrossRef
Meunier, N., 2004, A&A, 420, 333
Meunier, N., 2005, A&A, 436, 1075
Meunier, N., Solanki, S.K., & Livingston, W.C., 1998, A&A, 331, 771 PubMed
Meunier, N., Tkaczuk, R., & Roudier, T., 2007, A&A, 463, 745
Montesinos, B., Thomas, J.H., Ventura, P., & Mazzitelli, I., 2001, MNRAS, 326, 877 CrossRef
Moreno Insertis, F., Saar, S.H., & Solanki, S.K., 2001, in 11th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun, ed. R.J. Garcia Lopez, R. Rebolo & M.R. Zapaterio Osorio, PASP, 223, 435
Noyes, R.W., Hartmann, L.W., Baliunas, S.L., et al., 1984a, ApJ, 279, 763 CrossRef
Noyes, R.W., Weiss, N.O., & Vaughan, A.H., 1984b, ApJ, 287, 769 CrossRef
Orozco Suárez, D., Bellot Rubio, L.R., del Toro Iniesta, J.C., et al., 2007, ApJ, 670, L61 CrossRef
Ossendrijver, M., 2003, A&AR, 11, 287
Pap, J.M., & Fröhlich, C., 1999, J. Atmosph. Terrest. Phy., 61, 15 CrossRef
Petit, P., Donati, J.-F., Aurière, M., et al., 2005, MNRAS, 361, 837 CrossRef
Petit, P., Donati, J.-F., & Collier Cameron, A., 2002, MNRAS, 334, 374 CrossRef
Radick, R.R., Lockwood, G.W., Skiff, B.A., & Baliunas, S.L., 1998, ApJS 118, 239
Rast, M.P., 2003, ApJ, 597, 1200 CrossRef
Reiners, A., & Schmitt, J.H.M.M., 2002, A&A, 384, 155
Reiners, A., & Schmitt, J.H.M.M., 2003, A&A, 398, 647
Ribes, J.C., & Nesme-Ribes, E., 1993, A&A, 276, 549
Rieutord, M., Meunier, N., Roudier, T., et al., 2008, [ArXiv e-prints], 801
Rieutord, M., Roudier, T., Malherbe, J.M., & Rincon, F., 2000, A&A, 357, 1063
Rousselet-Perraut, K., Stehlé, C., Lanz, T., et al., 2004, A&A, 422, 193
Saar, S.H., & Brandenburg, A., 1999, ApJ, 524, 295 CrossRef
Sánchez Almeida, J., Domínguez Cerdeña, I., & Kneer, F., 2003, ApJ, 597, L177 CrossRef
Schaefer, B.E., King, J.R., & Deliyannis, C.P., 2000, ApJ, 529, 1026 CrossRef
Schmidt, W., & Schlichenmaier, R., 2000, A&A, 364, 829 PubMed
Schmitt, D., Schuessler, M., & Ferriz-Mas, A., 1998, in Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun, ed. R.A. Donahue & J.A. Bookbinder, PASP, 154, 1324
Schou, J., Howe, R., Basu, S., et al., 2002, ApJ, 567, 1234 CrossRef
Schrijver, C.J., 2001, ApJ, 547, 475 CrossRef
Schrijver, C.J., & Title, A.M., 2001, ApJ, 551, 1099 CrossRef
Schuessler, M., & Solanki, S.K., 1992, A&A, 264, L13
Simon, G., & Leighton, R., 1964, ApJ, 140, 1120 CrossRef
Snodgrass, H.B., & Ulrich, R.K., 1990, ApJ, 351, 309 CrossRef
Socas-Navarro, H., & Sánchez Almeida, J., 2003, ApJ, 593, 581 CrossRef
Solanki, S.K., & Unruh, Y.C., 2004, MNRAS, 348, 307 CrossRef
Tobias, S.M., 1998, MNRAS, 296, 653 CrossRef
Usoskin, I.G., Schüssler, M., Solanki, S.K., & Mursula, K. 2005, J. Geophys. Res. (Space Phy.), 110, 10102
Usoskin, I.G., Solanki, S.K., & Kovaltsov, G.A., 2007, A&A, 471, 301
Valenti, J.A., Marcy, G.W., & Basri, G., 1995, ApJ, 439, 939 CrossRef
van den Oord, G.H.J., 1999, in Solar and Stellar Activity: Similarities and Differences, ed. C.J. Butler & J.G. Doyle, PASP, 158, 189
Vaughan, A.H., & Preston, G.W., 1980, PASP, 92, 385 CrossRef
Vögler, A., & Schüssler, M., 2007, A&A, 465, L43
Weber, E.J., & Davis, L.J., 1967, ApJ, 148, 217 CrossRef
Wenzler, T., Solanki, S.K., Krivova, N.A., & Fröhlich, C., 2006, A&A, 460, 583
Wilson, O.C., 1978, ApJ, 226, 379 CrossRef
Wright, J.T., 2004, AJ, 128, 1273 CrossRef