Space Science Reviews - Solar and Stellar Dynamos: a New Era

Space Science Reviews Topical Collection completed 

21 December 2023

Large-scale and small-scale dynamos generating magnetic flux are fundamental processes in astrophysics, for which solar and stellar dynamos provide crucial paradigms. During the last two decades, a wealth of new observational results, together with a new generation of large-scale numerical simulations, gave important insights in the complex interactions of turbulent convection, rotation, and magnetic fields by self-excited dynamo action in the Sun and other stars. 

This open-access collection (this opens in a new tab), edited by Manfred Schüssler, Robert Cameron, Paul Charbonneau, Mausumi Dikpati, Hideyuki Hotta and Leonid Kitchatinov, presents results from the ISSI Workhop "Solar and Stellar Dynamos: a New Era" (this opens in a new tab), held 13–17 June 2022, which reviewed and put into perspective the results from observations, simulations, and simplified models. It covers the whole range of topics discussed during the meeting: solar and stellar observations from space and ground, numerical simulations, turbulence theory, and dynamo models.

Please, start reading the editors' introduction: Schüssler, M., Cameron, R., Charbonneau, P. et al. Editorial to the Topical Collection: Solar and Stellar Dynamos: a New Era (this opens in a new tab). Space Sci Rev 220, 2 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-023-01037-y