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Cool stars like the Sun harbor convection zones capable of producing substantial surface magnetic fields leading to stellar magnetic activity. The influence of stellar parameters like rotation, radius, and age on cool-star magnetism, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Ansgar Reiners

Understanding the stability of the magnetic field in radiation zones is of crucial importance for various processes in stellar interior like mixing, circulation and angular momentum transport. The stability properties of a star containing a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Alfio Bonanno , Vadim Urpin

In this paper we first discuss observational evidence of longitudinal concentrations of magnetic activity in the Sun and rapidly rotating late-type stars with outer convective envelopes. Scenarios arising from the idea of rotationally…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 M. J. Mantere , Petri J. Käpylä , Jaan Pelt

While the presence of magnetic fields on low-mass stars is attributed to a dynamo process essentially driven by convective motions, the existence of magnetic fields on intermediate-mass stars has very likely other reasons. Presuming that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-30 Rainer Arlt

Observations of magnetism in very low mass stars recently made important progress, revealing characteristics that are now to be understood in the framework of dynamo theory. In parallel, there is growing evidence that dynamo processes in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 J. Morin , E. Dormy , M. Schrinner , J. -F. Donati

The extraordinary energetic activity of magnetars is usually explained in terms of dissipation of a huge internal magnetic field of the order of $10^{15-16}$G. How such a strong magnetic field can originate during the formation of a neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-26 A. G. Pili , N. Bucciantini , L. Del Zanna

Magnetic fields play an important role in producing and modifying the photospheric chemical peculiarities of intermediate-mass main sequence stars. This article discusses the basic theory and methods of measurement used to detect and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. A. Wade

The solar cycle is a complex phenomenon. To comprehensively understand it, we have to study various tracers. The most important component of this complex is the solar dynamo, which is understood as self-excitation of the solar magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-10 V. N. Obridko , A. S. Shibalova , D. D. Sokoloff

This review provides an introduction to the generation and evolution of the Sun's magnetic field, summarising both observational evidence and theoretical models. The eleven year solar cycle, which is well known from a variety of observed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-17 Alan W. Hood , David W. Hughes

Mean-field galactic dynamo theory is the leading theory to explain the prevalence of regular magnetic fields in spiral galaxies, but its systematic comparison with observations is still incomplete and fragmentary. Here we compare…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-14 Luke Chamandy , Anvar Shukurov , A. Russ Taylor

Magnetic fields are ubiquitous in the Universe. Extragalactic disks, halos and clusters have consistently been shown, via diffuse radio-synchrotron emission and Faraday rotation measurements, to exhibit magnetic field strengths ranging from…

We perform three-dimensional numerical simulations of stellar winds of early-M dwarf stars. Our simulations incorporate observationally reconstructed large-scale surface magnetic maps, suggesting that the complexity of the magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. A. Vidotto , M. Jardine , J. Morin , J. F. Donati , M. Opher , T. I. Gombosi

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

Ap star magnetism is often attributed to fossil magnetic fields which have not changed much since the pre-main-sequence epoch of the stars. Stable magnetic field configurations are known which could persist probably for the entire…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 R. Arlt , G. Ruediger

We discuss selected aspects regarding the magnetic field evolution of solar-type stars. Most of the stars with activity cycles are in the range where the normalized chromospheric Calcium emission increases linearly with the inverse Rossby…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Axel Brandenburg

In this review, I focus on the structure and evolution of the coronal magnetic fields modelled from observations. The development of instruments measuring the photospheric and chromospheric magnetic fields with a high spatial and time…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-18 Stephane Regnier

When magnetic field in the solar convection zone buoyantly rises to pierce the visible solar surface (photosphere), the atmosphere (corona) above this surface must respond in some way. One response of the coronal field to photospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-19 Lucas A. Tarr

We investigate the connections between the magnetic fields and the X-ray emission from massive stars. Our study shows that the X-ray properties of known strongly magnetic stars are diverse: while some comply to the predictions of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 L. M. Oskinova , W. -R. Hamann , J. P. Cassinelli , J. C. Brown , H. Todt

Initially, we present our original fast dynamo mechanism being potentially at work concerning the Sun and the solar type stars. Then, based on this new prototype model, a dynamo action model explaining the generation of the magnetic fields…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-21 D. V. Sarafopoulos

Increasing observations are becoming available about a relatively weak, but persistent, non-axisymmetric magnetic field co-existing with the dominant axisymmetric field on the Sun. It indicates that the non-axisymmetric magnetic field plays…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Jiang , J. X. Wang