Does the Babcock--Leighton Mechanism Operate on the Sun?

Abstract

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.

5 pages, 2 figures, to apper in Astronomy Letters

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