Wednesday 12
Session II-2.1 Prominence destabilization, CMEs, 3D reconstructions
Chairman: Nandita Srivastava
› 18:00 - 18:15 (15min)
Dynamo driven coronal ejections
Joern Warnecke  1, 2@  , Petri Kapyla  1, 3@  , Maarit Mantere  3, 4@  , Axel Brandenburg  1, 2@  
1 : Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics  (Nordita)  -  Website
Albanova University Center Roslagstullsbacken 23 106 91 Stockholm Sweden -  Sweden
2 : Department of Astronomy, Stockholm University  -  Website
Department of Astronomy, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm -  Sweden
3 : Physics Department, Helsinki University  -  Website
Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2a, PO Box 64, FI-00014 University of Helsinki -  Finland
4 : Department of Information and Computer Science  -  Website
Aalto University School of Science Department of Information and Computer Science Aalto University School of Science P.O. Box 11000 00076 Aalto FINLAND -  Finland

Observations show that the Sun sheds mass through twisted magnetic flux configurations, like Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). Conventionally, CMEs are modeled by adopting a given distribution of magnetic flux at the solar surface and letting it evolve by shearing and twisting the magnetic field at its footpoints at the surface. Of course, ultimately such velocity and magnetic field
patterns must come from a realistic simulation of the Sun's convection zone, where the field is generated by dynamo action. Therefore a unified treatment of convection zone and CMEs is needed. We combine a convectively driven dynamo with a polytropic layer that extends to 1.6 solar radii. The temperature increases in this region to about 8 times the value at the surface, corresponding to about 1.2 times the value at the bottom of the spherical shell. We associate this region with the solar corona. Magnetic fields are found to emerge at the surface and are ejected to the coronal part of the domain. These ejections occur in irregular intervals and are weaker than in earlier work. We tentatively associate these events with coronal mass ejections on the Sun. We find a solar-like differential rotation with radial contours of constant rotation rate, together with a solar-like meridional circulation and a near-surface shear layer. This spoke-like rotation profile is caused by a non-zero latitudinal entropy gradient which violates the Taylor-Proudman balance via the baroclinic term. The lower density stratification compared with the Sun leads to an equatorward return flow above the surface. The mean magnetic field is in most of the cases oscillatory with equatorward migration in one case. In other cases the equatorward migration is overlaid by stationary or even poleward migrating mean fields.


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