Papers: Buoyant Magnetic Loops in a Global Dynamo Simulation of a Young Sun

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• Nelson, Nicholas J., Brown, Benjamin P., Brun, Allan Sacha, Miesch, Mark S., & Toomre, Juri. 2011. "Buoyant Magnetic Loops in a Global Dynamo Simulation of a Young Sun", The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 739, Issue 2, L38

Longitudinal magnetic field as a function of radius and latitude at successive times. Two buoyant magnetic structures are captured here,

 This letter introduced a dynamo simulation of a sun-like star which produced buoyant magnetic loops.  The simulation, which we call case S3, uses an improved treatment of diffusion which allowing the simulation to be much more turbulent than was previously possible.