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Magnetic field is playing an important role at all stages of star evolution from star formation to the endpoints. The main effects are briefly reviewed. We also show that O-type stars have large convective envelopes, where convective dynamo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 André Maeder , Georges Meynet , Cyril Georgy , Sylvia Ekström

Magnetic fields play an important role in star formation by regulating the removal of angular momentum from collapsing molecular cloud cores. Hall diffusion is known to be important to the magnetic field behaviour at many of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-12 Catherine Braiding

Apparent variability of the longitudinal magnetic fields in most stars is caused by rotation, which quantitavely changes projection of the magnetic field configuration on the line of sight. This is a purely geometrical effect and is not…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-22 V. D. Bychkov , L. V. Bychkova , J Madej

Stellar Magnetism affects all spectral types and exists and varies throughout the evolution of stars. Magnetic fields can affect not only the interior of stars, but also their circumstellar environments. In this chapter, we concentrate on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-02 Veronique Petit , Mary E. Oksala

The magnetic field in stellar radiation zones can play an important role in phenomena such as mixing, angular momentum transport, etc. We study the effect of rotation on the stability of a predominantly toroidal magnetic field in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Alfio Bonanno , Vadim Urpin

Most of the baryonic matter in the Universe is permeated by magnetic fields which affect many, if not most, of astrophysical phenomena both, in compact sources and in diffuse gas. Recent years have been marked by a worldwide surge of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-23 Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

The formation of binary stars is highly influenced by magnetic fields, which play a crucial role in transporting angular momentum. We conducted three-dimensional numerical simulations of binary star accretion via a circumbinary disk, taking…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-06 Tomoaki Matsumoto

We review current understanding of star formation, outlining an overall theoretical framework and the observations that motivate it. A conception of star formation has emerged in which turbulence plays a dual role, both creating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Christopher F. McKee , Eve C. Ostriker

The magneto-rotational instability (MRI) is widely believed to play a central role in generating large-scale, poloidal magnetic fields during binary neutron star mergers. However, the few simulations that begin with a weak seed magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-28 T. Celora , C. Palenzuela , D. Viganò , R. Aguilera-Miret

We compare the current effects of rotation in stellar evolution to those of the magnetic field created by the Tayler instability. In stellar regions, where magnetic field can be generated by the dynamo due to differential rotation (Spruit…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Andre Maeder , Georges Meynet

Understanding the formation of stars in galaxies is central to much of modern astrophysics. For several decades it has been thought that stellar birth is primarily controlled by the interplay between gravity and magnetostatic support,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Ralf S. Klessen

While magnetic fields are important in contemporary star formation, their role in primordial star formation is unknown. Magnetic fields of order 10^-16 G are produced by the Biermann battery due to the curved shocks and turbulence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-15 Christopher F. McKee , Athena Stacy , Pak Shing Li

We investigate the chiral magnetic instability in the crust of a neutron star as a potential mechanism for amplifying magnetic fields. This instability may become active when small deviations from chemical equilibrium are sustained over…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-13 Clara Dehman , José A. Pons

Stellar 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…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Ansgar Reiners

Radio continuum and polarization observations of several nearby galaxies allowed to determine their vertical scaleheights, magnetic field strengths and large-scale magnetic field patterns. They all show a similar large-scale magnetic field…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-07-13 Marita Krause

As one of the prime contributors to the interstellar medium energy budget, magnetic fields naturally play a part in shaping the evolution of galaxies. Galactic magnetic fields can originate from strong primordial magnetic fields provided…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-03 Sergio Martin-Alvarez , Adrianne Slyz , Julien Devriendt , Carlos Gómez-Guijarro

Magnetic fields play an important role at all stages of stellar evolution. In Sun-like stars, they are generated in the outer convective layers. Studying the large-scale magnetic fields of these stars enlightens our understanding of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 R. Fares

We investigate the effects of magnetic fields and radiative protostellar feedback on the star formation process using self-gravitating radiation magnetohydrodynamical calculations. We present results from a series of calculations of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Daniel J. Price , Matthew R. Bate

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is of key importance in many high-energy astrophysical systems, where MHD instabilities can amplify local magnetic field over very short time scales. Specifically, the magnetorotational instability (MRI)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-30 Philipp Mösta , Christian D. Ott , David Radice , Luke F. Roberts , Erik Schnetter , Roland Haas

We review the role that magnetic field may have on the formation and evolution of molecular clouds. After a brief presentation and main assumptions leading to ideal MHD equations, their most important correction, namely the ion-neutral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-05 Patrick Hennebelle , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka