Characterization of magneto-convection in sunspots The Gough-Tayler stability criterion in MURaM sunspot simulations

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202141607" target="_blank" >10.1051/0004-6361/202141607</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Characterization of magneto-convection in sunspots The Gough-Tayler stability criterion in MURaM sunspot simulations

Original language description

We analyse a sunspot simulation in an effort to understand the origin of the convective instabilities giving rise to the penumbral and umbral distinct regimes. We applied the criterion from Gough & Tayler (1966, MNRAS, 133, 85), accounting for the stabilising effect of the vertical magnetic field, to investigate the convective instabilities in a MURaM sunspot simulation. We find: (1) a highly unstable shallow layer right beneath the surface extending all over the simulation box in which convection is triggered by radiative cooling in the photosphere, (2) a deep umbral core (beneath -5 Mm) stabilised against overturning convection that underlies a region with stable background values permeated by slender instabilities coupled to umbral dots, (3) filamentary instabilities below the penumbra nearly parallel to the surface and undulating instabilities coupled to the penumbra which originate in the deep layers. These deep-rooted instabilities result in the vigorous magneto-convection regime characteristic of the penumbra, (4) convective downdrafts in the granulation, penumbra, and umbra develop at about 2 km s(-1), 1 km s(-1), and 0.1 km s(-1), respectively, indicating that the granular regime of convection is more vigorous than the penumbra convection regime, which, in turn, is more vigorous than the close-to-steady umbra, (5) the GT criterion outlines both the sunspot magnetopause and peripatopause, highlighting the tripartite nature of the sub-photospheric layers of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) sunspot models, and, finally, (6) the Jurcak criterion is the photospheric counterpart of the GT criterion in deep layers. The GT criterion as a diagnostic tool reveals the tripartite nature of sunspot structure with distinct regimes of magneto-convection in the umbra, penumbra, and granulation operating in realistic MHD simulations.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10308 - Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Astronomy & Astrophysics

ISSN

0004-6361

e-ISSN

1432-0746

Volume of the periodical

656

Issue of the periodical within the volume

December

Country of publishing house

FR - FRANCE

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

A92

UT code for WoS article

000728156800005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85121218925