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ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
卷 384, 期 1, 页码 282-298出版社
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20011836
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hydrodynamics; Sun : activity; Sun : interior; Sun : oscillations; Sun : rotation
Retrograde waves with frequencies much lower than the rotation frequency become trapped in the solar radiative interior. The eigenfunctions of the compressible, nonadiabatic (epsilon-mechanism and radiative losses taken into account) Rossby-like modes are obtained by an asymptotic method assuming a very small latitudinal gradient of the rotation rate. An integral dispersion relation for the complex eigenfrequencies is derived as a solution of the boundary value problem. The discovered resonant cavity modes (called R-modes) are fundamentally different from the known r-modes: their frequencies are functions of the solar interior structure, and the reason for their existence is not related to geometrical effects. The most unstable R-modes are those with periods of approximate to1-3 yr, 18-30 yr, and 1500-20 000 yr; these three separate period ranges are known from solar and geophysical data. The growing times of those modes which are unstable with respect to the epsilon-mechanism are approximate to10(2); 10(3); and 10(5) years, respectively. The amplitudes of the R-modes are growing towards the center of the Sun. We discuss some prospects to develop the theory of R-modes as a driver of the dynamics in the convective zone which could explain, e.g., observed short-term fluctuations of rotation, a control of the solar magnetic cycle, and abrupt changes of terrestrial climate in the past.
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