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Does the Babcock-Leighton mechanism operate on the Sun?

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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.

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  1. Institute for Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, P.O. Box 4026, Irkutsk, 664033, Russia

    L. L. Kitchatinov & S. V. Olemskoy

  2. Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pulkovskoe sh. 65, St. Petersburg, 196140, Russia

    L. L. Kitchatinov

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Original Russian Text © L.L. Kitchatinov, S.V. Olemskoy, 2011, published in Pis’ma v Astronomicheskiĭ Zhurnal, 2011, Vol. 37, No. 9, pp. 713–715.

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Kitchatinov, L.L., Olemskoy, S.V. Does the Babcock-Leighton mechanism operate on the Sun?. Astron. Lett. 37, 656–658 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0320010811080031

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