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Stellar winds govern the spin-down of Solar-type stars as they age, and play an important role in determining planetary habitability, as powerful winds can lead to atmospheric erosion. We calculate three-dimensional stellar wind models for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Dag Evensberget , Bradley D. Carter , Stephen C. Marsden , Leigh Brookshaw , Colin P. Folsom

The regulation of angular momentum is one of the key processes for our understanding of stellar evolution. The rotational evolution of solar-mass stars is mainly determined by the magnetic interaction with their circumstellar disk and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jochen Eisloeffel , Alexander Scholz

Previous studies have related surface temperature maps, obtained with the Doppler imaging (DI) technique, of LQ Hya with long-term photometry. We compare surface magnetic field maps, obtained with the Zeeman Doppler imaging (ZDI) technique,…

Massive star winds are important contributors to the energy, momentum and chemical enrichment of the interstellar medium. Strong, organized and predominantly dipolar magnetic fields have been firmly detected in a small subset of massive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 Melissa Munoz , Gregg Wade , Daniel Faes , Alex Carciofi

Aims: We study the evolution of stellar rotation and wind properties for low-mass main-sequence stars. Our aim is to use rotational evolution models to constrain the mass loss rates in stellar winds and to predict how their properties…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-21 C. P. Johnstone , M. Güdel , I. Brott , T. Lüftinger

We develop new angular momentum evolution models for stars with masses of $0.5$ to $1.6~\rm M_\odot$ and from the pre-main-sequence (\rm PMS) through the end of their main-sequence (\rm MS) lifetime. The parametric models include magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-12 Leila Sadeghi Ardestani , Tristan Guillot , Pierre Morel

We examine the effects of the magnetic field created by the Tayler--Spruit dynamo in differentially rotating stars. Magnetic fields of the order of a few $10^4$ G are present through most of the stellar envelope, with the exception of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 André Maeder , Georges Meynet

We investigate outflows from the disk-magnetosphere boundary of rotating magnetized stars in cases where the magnetic field of a star is bunched into an X-type configuration using axisymmetric and full 3D MHD simulations. Such configuration…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. M. Romanova , G. V. Ustyugova , A. V. Koldoba , R. V. E. Lovelace

It is thought that magnetic fields must be present in the interiors of stars to resolve certain discrepancies between theory and observation (e.g. angular momentum transport), but such fields are difficult to detect and characterise.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 Shyeh Tjing Loi

We investigate the properties of magnetized stars in the propeller regime using axisymmetric numerical simulations. We modelled the propeller regime for stars with realistically large magnetospheres (5-7 stellar radii), so that our results…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-21 Marina M. Romanova , Alisa A. Blinova , Galina V. Ustyugova , Alexander V. Koldoba , Richard V. E. Lovelace

Stars are not perfectly spherically symmetric. They are deformed by rotation and magnetic fields. Until now, the study of stellar shapes has only been possible with optical interferometry for a few of the fastest-rotating nearby stars. We…

Solar-type stars are born with relatively rapid rotation and strong magnetic fields. Through a process known as magnetic braking, the rotation slows over time as stellar winds gradually remove angular momentum from the system. The rate of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-07 Travis S. Metcalfe , Oleg Kochukhov , Ilya V. Ilyin , Klaus G. Strassmeier , Diego Godoy-Rivera , Marc H. Pinsonneault

The aim of this work is to investigate rotation profile of solar-like stars with magnetic fields. A diffusion coefficient of magnetic angular momentum transport is deduced. Rotating stellar models with different mass are computed under the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-23 Wuming Yang , Shaolan Bi

Context. As a star evolves, the planet orbits change with time due to tidal interactions, stellar mass losses, friction and gravitational drag forces, mass accretion and evaporation on/by the planet. Stellar rotation modifies the structure…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 Giovanni Privitera , Georges Meynet , Patrick Eggenberger , Aline A. Vidotto , Eva Villaver , Michele Bianda

During the past decade the dynamical importance of magnetic fields in molecular clouds has been increasingly recognized, as observational evidence has accumulated. However, how a magnetic field affect star formation is still unclear.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-15 C. Y. Law , H. -b. Li , Z. Cao , C. -Y. Ng

Major photometric monitoring campaigns of star-forming regions in the past decade have provided rich rotation period distributions of pre-main-sequence stars. The rotation periods span more than an order of magnitude in period, with most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert D. Mathieu

Magnetic fields play a role in almost all stages of stellar evolution. Most low-mass stars, including the Sun, show surface fields that are generated by dynamo processes in their convective envelopes. Intermediate-mass stars do not have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-26 D. Stello , M. Cantiello , J. Fuller , D. Huber , R. A. Garcia , T. R. Bedding , L. Bildsten , V. Silva Aguirre

We investigate star formation from subparsec to kpc scales with magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) models of a cloud structure and a section of galactic spiral arm. We aim to understand how magnetic fields affect star formation, cloud formation and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-09 Nicholas P. Herrington , Clare L. Dobbs , Thomas J. R. Bending

M-type stars are the most common stars in the universe. They are ideal hosts for the search of exoplanets in the habitable zone (HZ), as their small size and low temperature make the HZ much closer in than their solar twins. Harboring very…

Surface magnetic fields have a strong impact on stellar mass loss and rotation and, as a consequence, on the evolution of massive stars. In this work we study the influence of an evolving dipolar surface fossil magnetic field with an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Z. Keszthelyi , G. Meynet , C. Georgy , G. A. Wade , V. Petit , A. David-Uraz