Does the Babcock-Leighton mechanism operate on the Sun?

作者：Kitchatinov L L^*; Olemskoy S V

来源：Astronomy Letters, 2011, 37(9): 656-658.

DOI：10.1134/S0320010811080031

• Sun: magnetic fields
• sunspots
• dynamo

The contribution of the Babcock-Leighton mechanism to the generation of the Sun's poloidal magnetic field is estimated from sunspot data for three solar cycles. Comparison of the derived quantities with the A-index of the large-scale magnetic field suggests a positive answer to the question posed in the title of this paper.

• 出版日期2011-9