Journal
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 751, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/751/1/47
Keywords
magnetohydrodynamics (MHD); Sun: activity; Sun: dynamo; Sun: interior; Sun: magnetic topology; sunspots
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Funding
- NBRPC [2006CB806301]
- CAS [KLCX2-EW-T07]
- NNSF-RBFR [10911120051]
- National Astronomical Observatories of China
- NNSF of China
- RFBR of Russia [08-02-92211]
- [NSFC 10733020]
- [10921303]
- [41174153]
- [11103037]
- [10-02-00960]
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We demonstrate that the current helicity observed in solar active regions traces the magnetic helicity of the large-scale dynamo generated field. We use an advanced two-dimensional mean-field dynamo model with dynamo saturation based on the evolution of the magnetic helicity and algebraic quenching. For comparison, we also studied a more basic two-dimensional mean-field dynamo model with simple algebraic alpha-quenching only. Using these numerical models we obtained butterfly diagrams both for the small-scale current helicity and also for the large-scale magnetic helicity, and compared them with the butterfly diagram for the current helicity in active regions obtained from observations. This comparison shows that the current helicity of active regions, as estimated by - A . B evaluated at the depth from which the active region arises, resembles the observational data much better than the small-scale current helicity calculated directly from the helicity evolution equation. Here B and A are, respectively, the dynamo generated mean magnetic field and its vector potential. A theoretical interpretation of these results is given.
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