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The inertial dip as a window on the convective core dynamics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2025-10-08 v1

Abstract

Gamma Dor stars are ideal targets for studies of the innermost dynamical properties of stars, due to their rich frequency spectrum of gravito-inertial modes propagating in the radiative envelope. Recent studies found that these modes could couple at the core-to-envelope interface with pure inertial modes in their sub-inertial regime, forming the so-called inertial dip in the period-spacing pattern of these stars. The inertial dip, as formed by core modes, stands out as a unique probe of core properties. We aim in this work to explore the effect of core magnetism on its structure, property of key relevance in modern stellar physics. We describe the outlines of our model and the geometry of the considered field. We give the coupling equation and the variation of the dip shape and location with increasing magnetic contrast between the core and the envelope. We compare our findings to the ones obtained in a hydrodynamical, differentially-rotating case. We show hints at potentially lifting the degeneracy between the signatures of core-to-envelope differential rotation and core magnetic fields. Together, these two cases can be considered as an exploration of different magnetic regimes potentially reached in the core of gamma Dor stars.

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@article{arxiv.2510.05983,
  title  = {The inertial dip as a window on the convective core dynamics},
  author = {Lucas Barrault and Lisa Bugnet and Stéphane Mathis and Joey S. G. Mombarg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.05983},
  year   = {2025}
}

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4 pages, 2 figures. Proceeding of the Annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics (Journ\'ees SF2A 2025)

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