On the Thermal Generation of Toroidal Magnetic Fields in Rotating Stars.

1962 ◽  
Vol 136 ◽  
pp. 615 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Mestel ◽  
I. W. Roxburgh
1973 ◽  
Vol 162 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-293
Author(s):  
M. Maheswaran ◽  
H. A. B. M. de Silva

2019 ◽  
Vol 82 ◽  
pp. 273-294
Author(s):  
J. Toomre

Rotating stars with convection zones are the great builders of magnetism in our universe. Seeking to understand how turbulent convection actually operates, and so too the dynamo action that it can achieve, has advanced through distinctive stages in which Jean-Paul Zahn was often a central player, or joined by his former students. Some of the opening steps in dealing with the basic nonlinearity in such dynamics involved modal equations (with specified horizontal structure) to study convective amplitudes and heat transports achieved as solutions equilibrated by feeding back on the mean stratification. These dealt in turn with laboratory convection, with penetrative convection in Boussinesq settings, then with compressible penetration via anelastic equations in simple geometries, and finally with stellar penetrative convection in A-type stars that coupled two convection zones. Advances in computation power allowed 2-D fully compressible simulations, and then 3-D modeling including rotation, to revisit some of these convection and penetration settings within planar layers. With externally imposed magnetic fields threading the 2-D layers, magnetoconvection could then be studied to see how the flows concentrated the fields into complex sheets, or how new classes of traveling waves could result. The era of considering turbulent convection in rotating spherical shells had also arrived, using 3-D MHD codes such as ASH to evaluate how the solar differential rotation is achieved and maintained. Similarly the manner in which global magnetic fields could be built by dynamo action within the solar convection zone took center stage, finding that coherent wreaths of strong magnetism could be built, and also cycling solutions with field reversals. The coupling of convection and magnetism continues as a vibrant research subject. It is also clear that stars like the Sun do not give up their dynamical mysteries readily when highly turbulent systems are at play.


2014 ◽  
Vol 90 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kōji Uryū ◽  
Eric Gourgoulhon ◽  
Charalampos M. Markakis ◽  
Kotaro Fujisawa ◽  
Antonios Tsokaros ◽  
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2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (S302) ◽  
pp. 156-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ansgar Reiners

AbstractStellar magnetic dynamos are driven by rotation, rapidly rotating stars produce stronger magnetic fields than slowly rotating stars do. The Zeeman effect is the most important indicator of magnetic fields, but Zeeman broadening must be disentangled from other broadening mechanisms, mainly rotation. The relations between rotation and magnetic field generation, between Doppler and Zeeman line broadening, and between rotation, stellar radius, and angular momentum evolution introduce several observational biases that affect our picture of stellar magnetism. In this overview, a few of these relations are explicitly shown, and the currently known distribution of field measurements is presented.


2019 ◽  
Vol 491 (3) ◽  
pp. 3155-3164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bidya Binay Karak ◽  
Aparna Tomar ◽  
Vindya Vashishth

ABSTRACT Simulations of magnetohydrodynamics convection in slowly rotating stars predict antisolar differential rotation (DR) in which the equator rotates slower than poles. This antisolar DR in the usual αΩ dynamo model does not produce polarity reversal. Thus, the features of large-scale magnetic fields in slowly rotating stars are expected to be different than stars having solar-like DR. In this study, we perform mean-field kinematic dynamo modelling of different stars at different rotation periods. We consider antisolar DR for the stars having rotation period larger than 30 d and solar-like DR otherwise. We show that with particular α profiles, the dynamo model produces magnetic cycles with polarity reversals even with the antisolar DR provided, the DR is quenched when the toroidal field grows considerably high and there is a sufficiently strong α for the generation of toroidal field. Due to the antisolar DR, the model produces an abrupt increase of magnetic field exactly when the DR profile is changed from solar-like to antisolar. This enhancement of magnetic field is in good agreement with the stellar observational data as well as some global convection simulations. In the solar-like DR branch, with the decreasing rotation period, we find the magnetic field strength increases while the cycle period shortens. Both of these trends are in general agreement with observations. Our study provides additional support for the possible existence of antisolar DR in slowly rotating stars and the presence of unusually enhanced magnetic fields and possibly cycles that are prone to production of superflare.


1988 ◽  
Vol 335 ◽  
pp. 931 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murugesapillai Maheswaran ◽  
Joseph P. Cassinelli

1971 ◽  
Vol 155 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. J. Monaghan ◽  
K. W. Robson

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