Evidence for global-scale magnetically modified Rossby waves in the Sun
摘要
Understanding and predicting solar magnetism is critical for safeguarding satellites, planning space missions and mitigating the effects of space weather on modern infrastructure. However, the physical processes governing the solar cycle remain elusive. Here, applying methods of helioseismology on observations taken by the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager, we report the possible detection of global magnetized inertial dispersions, a slow mode and a weaker, retrograde feature possibly consistent with the fast mode, whose dynamics are theorized to modulate the solar dynamo. These modes appear to be confined to layers r/R⊙ ≲ 0.98, exhibit amplitudes weaker than those of hydrodynamic Rossby waves and resonate at frequencies consistent with the presence of an effective large-scale toroidal magnetic field of strength