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Mixing zones in magnetized differentially rotating stars

Astrophysics 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

We study the secular instability of magnetized differentially rotating radiative zones taking account of viscosity and magnetic and thermal diffusivities. The considered instability generalizes the well-known Goldreich-Schubert-Fricke instability for the case of a sufficiently strong magnetic field. In magnetized stars, instability can lead to a formation of non-spherical unstable zones where weak turbulence mixes the material between the surface and interiors. Such unstable zones can manifest themselves by a non-spherical distribution of abundance anormalies on the stellar surface.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0509877,
  title  = {Mixing zones in magnetized differentially rotating stars},
  author = {V. Urpin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0509877},
  year   = {2009}
}

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8 pages, accepted by Astronomy and Astrophysics