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The Earth's Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO) is a natural example of wave-mean flow interaction and corresponds to the alternating directions of winds in the equatorial stratosphere. It is due to internal gravity waves (IGW) generated in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 Florentin Daniel , Daniel Lecoanet

This is the third in a series of papers that deal with angular momentum transport by internal gravity waves. We concentrate on the waves excited by core convection in a 3Msun, Pop I main sequence star. Here, we want to examine the role of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Florian P. Pantillon , Suzanne Talon , Corinne Charbonnel

The high-temperature plasma in the solar interior generates stochastic gravitational waves (GWs). Due to its significance as the primary source of high-frequency GWs in the solar system, we reexamine this phenomenon highlighting some…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-07 Camilo García-Cely , Andreas Ringwald

Here we present a study of radial chemical mixing in non-rotating massive main-sequence stars driven by internal gravity waves (IGWs), based on multi-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations with the fully compressible code MUSIC. We examine…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-08 Jack Morton , Thomas Guillet , Isabelle Baraffe , Adrien Morison , Arthur Le Saux , Dimitar Vlaykov , Tom Goffrey , Jane Pratt

Magnetism is thought to play an important role in the evolution and dynamics of stars, though little is known about magnetic fields deep within stellar interiors. A promising avenue for probing these fields uses asteroseismic observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-01 Cy S. David , Daniel Lecoanet , Pascale Garaud

We demonstrate that induced gravitational waves (IGWs) can naturally emerge within the framework of thermal leptogenesis models, thereby providing a robust probe for exploring this theory at remarkably high energy scales. To illustrate this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-29 Marco Chianese , Guillem Domènech , Theodoros Papanikolaou , Rome Samanta , Ninetta Saviano

We review the behavior of the oscillating shear layer produced by gravity waves below the surface convection zone of the Sun. We show that, under asymmetric filtering produced by this layer, gravity waves of low spherical order, which are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Suzanne Talon , Pawan Kumar , Jean-Paul Zahn

Nonlinear two-dimensional internal gravity waves (IGWs) in the atmospheres of the Earth and the Sun are studied. The resulting two-dimensional nonlinear equation has the form of a generalized nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with nonlocal…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-08-23 Volodymyr M. Lashkin , Oleg K. Cheremnykh

Gravity waves (or their signatures) are detected in stars thanks to helio- and asteroseismology and they may play an important role in the evolution of stellar angular momentum. Moreover, the observational study of the CoRoT target HD51452…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-08 Stéphane Mathis , Coralie Neiner , Nguyet Tran Minh

Atmospheric gravity waves (AGWs) are low-frequency, buoyancy-driven waves that are generated by turbulent convection and propagate obliquely throughout the solar atmosphere. Their proposed energy contribution to the lower solar atmosphere…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-20 Oana Vesa , Jason Jackiewicz , Kevin Reardon

In this paper, we develop a formalism in order to incorporate the contribution of internal gravity waves to the transport of angular momentum and chemicals over long time-scales in stars. We show that the development of a double peaked…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Talon , C. Charbonnel

Externally driven interstellar turbulence plays an important role in shaping the density structure in molecular clouds. Here we study the dynamical role of internally driven turbulence in a self-gravitating molecular cloud core. Depending…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-04 Siyao Xu , Alex Lazarian

We study the properties of internal gravity waves (IGWs) detected in synthetic observations that are obtained from realistic numerical simulation of the solar atmosphere. We used four different simulations of the solar magneto-convection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 G. Vigeesh , M. Roth

Internal waves propagating in stellar radiative zones can lead to efficient angular momentum transport, that should occur throughout the whole lifetime of stars. They thus play a key role in shaping the internal rotation profile of these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-08 Q. André , S. Mathis , L. Amard

Recent work suggests that inwardly propagating internal gravity waves (IGWs) within a star can be fully converted to outward magnetic waves (MWs) if they encounter a sufficiently strong magnetic field. The resulting magnetic waves dissipate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-23 Craig D. Duguid , Nils B. de Vries , Daniel Lecoanet , Adrian J. Barker

Recent photometric observations of massive stars show ubiquitous low-frequency "red-noise" variability, which has been interpreted as internal gravity waves (IGWs). Simulations of IGWs generated by convection show smooth surface wave…

Internal gravity waves (IGWs) have been shown to contribute to the transport of chemical elements in stars with a convective core and radiative envelope. Recent 2D hydrodynamical simulations of convection in intermediate-mass stars have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-26 J. S. G. Mombarg , A. Varghese , R. P. Ratnasingam

Early-type stars are predicted to excite an entire spectrum of internal gravity waves (IGWs) at the interface of their convective cores and radiative envelopes. Numerical simulations of IGWs predict stochastic low-frequency variability in…

This is the fourth in a series of papers that deal with angular momentum transport by internal gravity waves in stellar interiors. Here, we want to examine the potential role of waves in other evolutionary phases than the main sequence. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Suzanne Talon , Corinne Charbonnel

To date, asteroseismology has provided core to surface differential rotation measurements in eight main-sequence stars. These stars, ranging in mass from $\sim$1.5-9$M_\odot$, show rotation profiles ranging from uniform to counter-rotation.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-23 T. M. Rogers