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Calculation similar to those of Mestel and Moss (1983) are performed to investigate the decay of a toroidal field through configurations satisfying the torque free condition, imposed by the presence of a poloidal field of dipolar form confined beneath the solar convection zone. It is found that initially stable field configurations diffuse into unstable configurations on time-scales of order a few x 108 yr. The results are similar to those of Tayler (1982) for a simpler field model without any dynamical constraints.
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Moss, D. The decay of torque free toroidal magnetic fields confined beneath the solar convection zone. Astrophys Space Sci 104, 253–258 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00650300
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