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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 886, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab3e07
Keywords
dynamo; magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)
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Funding
- EC Research Innovation Action under the H2020 Programme [INFRAIA-2016-1-730897]
- Academy of Finland ReSoLVE Centre of Excellence [307411]
- Max-Planck/Princeton Center for Plasma Physics
- DFG Heisenberg grant [KA 4825/1-1]
- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (project UniSDyn) [818665]
- Finnish ministry of education
- supercomputer at GWDG in Garching
- supercomputer at RZG in Garching
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Global and semi-global convective dynamo simulations of solar-like stars are known to show a transition from an antisolar (fast poles, slow equator) to solar-like (fast equator, slow poles) differential rotation (DR) for increasing rotation rate. The dynamo solutions in the latter regime can exhibit regular cyclic modes, whereas in the former one, only stationary or temporally irregular solutions have been obtained so far. In this paper we present a semi-global dynamo simulation in the transition region, exhibiting two coexisting dynamo modes, a cyclic and a stationary one, both being dynamically significant. We seek to understand how such a dynamo is driven by analyzing the large-scale flow properties (DR and meridional circulation) together with the turbulent transport coefficients obtained with the test-field method. Neither an ??dynamo wave nor an advection-dominated dynamo are able to explain the cycle period and the propagation direction of the mean magnetic field. Furthermore, we find that the ? effect is comparable or even larger than the ? effect in generating the toroidal magnetic field, and therefore, the dynamo seems to be of ?(2)? or ?(2) type. We further find that the effective large-scale flows are significantly altered by turbulent pumping.
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