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A circularly polarized plane-wave is known to have no angular momentum when examined through Maxwell's equations. This, however, contradicts the experimentally observed facts, where finite segments of plane waves are known to be capable of…

Optics · Physics 2014-01-29 Masud Mansuripur

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

We present a novel mechanism in which plasma electrons and ions optically acquire angular momentum during local pump depletion of an azimuthally polarized laser, despite the laser carrying none. Using theoretical considerations and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Camilla Willim , Thales Silva , Luís Oliveira Silva , Jorge Vieira

Force-free neutron star magnetospheres are nowadays well known and found through numerical simulations. Even extension to general relativity has recently been achieved. However, those solutions are by definition dissipationless, meaning…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Jérôme Pétri

We calculate the excitation of low frequency gravity waves by turbulent convection in the sun and the effect of the angular momentum carried by these waves on the rotation profile of the sun's radiative interior. We find that the gravity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Pawan Kumar , Eliot J. Quataert

We present theoretical models of the angular momentum evolution of very low mass stars (0.1 - 0.5 M_sun) and solar analogues (0.6 - 1.1 M_sun). We investigate the effect of rotation on the effective temperature and luminosity of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-28 Alison Sills , M. H. Pinsonneault , D. M. Terndrup

Magnetic braking can drive angular momentum loss in star formation and influence disk evolution. A previous study of HH 111 VLA1 suggested a decrease in rotation velocity in a region between the infalling envelope and rotating disk. Using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-09 Jyun-Heng Lin , Chin-Fei Lee , Zhi-Yun Li , Yueh-Ning Lee , Ya-Lin Wu , J. A. López-Vázquez

We investigate the launching of outflows from the disk-magnetosphere boundary of slowly and rapidly rotating magnetized stars using axisymmetric and exploratory 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations. We find long-lasting outflows in both…

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

The surface brightness distribution in the majority of stellar galactic discs falls off exponentially. Often what lies beyond such a stellar disc is the neutral hydrogen gas whose distribution also follows a nearly exponential profile at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Kanak Saha , Chanda J. Jog

Violation of the axial synnetry of a magnetic field essentially modifies the physics of the plasma outflow in the magnetosphere of rotating objects. In comparison to the axisymmetric outflow, two new affects appear: more efficient…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. V. Bogovalov

This work presents a global solution for the internal and the external field of an axisymmetric rotating neutron star. It is shown that the twist of the internal field affects the external field, by increasing the number of open field lines…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-13 D. Ntotsikas , K. N. Gourgouliatos

The topology of the electromagnetic field around neutron stars severely impacts pulsar physics. While most of the works assume a standard centred dipolar magnetic field model, recently some efforts have been made to explain how inclusion of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-27 Anu Kundu , Jerome Petri

Electromagnetic waves carry energy as well as linear and angular momenta. When a light pulse is reflected from, transmitted through, or absorbed by a material medium, energy and momentum (both linear and angular) are generally exchanged,…

Optics · Physics 2013-12-12 Masud Mansuripur

Ideal axisymmetric pulsar magnetosphere is calculated from the standard stationary force-free equation but with a new boundary condition at the equator. The new solution predicts Ohmic heating. About 50% of the Poynting power is dissipated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-01 Andrei Gruzinov

Small levels of turbulence can be present in stellar radiative interiors due to, e.g., instability of rotational shear. In this paper we estimate turbulent transport coefficients for stably stratified rotating stellar radiation zones.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-23 L. L. Kitchatinov , A. Brandenburg

The purpose of this work was to obtain diffusion coefficient for the magnetic angular momentum transport and material transport in a rotating solar model. We assumed that the transport of both angular momentum and chemical elements caused…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-05-26 W. M. Yang , S. L. Bi

Many types of stars have strong magnetic fields that can dynamically influence the flow of circumstellar matter. In stars with accretion disks, the stellar magnetic field can truncate the inner disk and determine the paths that matter can…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-18 M. M. Romanova , S. P. Owocki

When a vortex electron with an orbital angular momentum (OAM) enters a magnetic field, its quantum state is described with a nonstationary Laguerre-Gaussian (NSLG) state rather than with a stationary Landau state. A key feature of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 G. V. Zmaga , G. K. Sizykh , D. V. Grosman , Qi Meng , Liping Zou , Pengming Zhang , D. V. Karlovets

This study examines the relationship between magnetic field complexity and mass and angular momentum losses. Observations of open clusters have revealed a bimodal distribution of the rotation periods of solar-like stars that has proven…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Cecilia Garraffo , Jeremy J. Drake , Ofer Cohen

Neutron stars such as pulsars and magnetars lose angular momentum primarily through electromagnetic dipole radiation, gravitational waves, $r$-mode oscillation, and also affected by fallback accretion processes. However, anomalous spin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-29 Indra Kumar Banerjee , Sandeep Chatterjee , Biswarup Das , Ujjal Kumar Dey