Comment on “The sunspot as a self-excited dynamo”
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A recent paper claims that the well known Cowling ‘anti-dynamo’ theorem is a “misconception”, and that a simple axisymmetric sunspot model constitutes a counter example. We do not believe these claims to have been substantiated.
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