Probing the large-scale magnetic field inside the Sun from three decades of observed surface magnetograms

Soumyadeep Chatterjee, Gopal Hazra

公開日: 2025/9/28

Abstract

Space-weather and disturbances in the heliosphere are manifestations of the solar magnetic field, which is solely driven by the interior dynamo, and constraining the solar interior magnetic field and its oscillatory behavior is one of the major challenges in solar physics. Observationally, none of the techniques, including helioseismology, are able to provide an estimation of the interior magnetic field. We reconstruct, for the first time, the dynamics of the interior large-scale magnetic fields by assimilating observed line-of-sight photospheric magnetogram data from MDI/SOHO & HMI/SDO along with helioseismic differential rotation data for three decades (1996-2025) into a 3D dynamo model. Our data-driven model successfully reproduces key observational features such as the surface butterfly diagram, polar field evolution, and axial dipole moment. The reconstructed interior field dominated by toroidal component exhibits an equatorward migration and reproduces the realistic amplitude and modulation of cycles 23-25. The non-axisymmetric behaviour of the interior toroidal field becomes less prominent as we move deep towards the tachocline. A strong correlation between the simulated toroidal field and sunspot number/area establishes our 3D magnetogram-driven model as a robust predictive model of the solar cycle.

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