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Context. Results from global magnetoconvection simulations of solar-like stars are at odds with observations in many respects: They show a surplus of energy in the kinetic power spectrum at large scales, anti-solar differential rotation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-27 M. Viviani , M. J. Käpylä

The amplitude and morphology of light curves of solar-like stars change substantially with increasing rotation rate: brightness variations get amplified and become more regular, which has so far not been explained. We develop a modelling…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-19 N. -E. Nèmec , A. I. Shapiro , E. Işik , S. K. Solanki , T. Reinhold

We investigate the effect of helium abundance and $\alpha$-element enhancement on the properties of convection in envelopes of solar-like main-sequence stars stars using a grid of 3D radiation hydrodynamic simulations. Helium abundance…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Joel D. Tanner , Sarbani Basu , Pierre Demarque

A high-precision two-dimensional stellar evolution code has been developed for studying solar variability due to structural changes produced by varying internal magnetic fields of arbitrary configurations. Specifically, we are interested in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. H. Li , P. Ventura , S. Basu , S. Sofia , P. Demarque

We investigate the impact of resonant gravitational waves on quadrupole acoustic modes of Sun-like stars located nearby stellar black hole binary systems (such as GW150914 and GW151226). We find that the stimulation of the low-overtone…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-26 Ilídio Lopes , Joseph Silk

Solar-type stars exhibit a rich variety of magnetic activity. Seeking to explore the convective origins of this activity, we have carried out a series of global 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations with the anelastic spherical harmonic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Nicholas J. Nelson , Benjamin P. Brown , A. Sacha Brun , Mark S. Miesch , Juri Toomre

We are developing 3 dimensional simulation codes for coalescing binary neutron stars. A code using the maximal slicing condition is obtained. To evaluate the gravitational radiation, we implemented a gauge-invariant wave extraction and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mari Kawamura , Ken-ichi Oohara , Takashi Nakamura

Although the occurrence of solar irradiance variations induced by magnetic surface features (e.g., sunspots, faculae, magnetic network) is generally accepted, the existence of intrinsic luminosity changes due to the internal magnetic fields…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 F. Spada , R. Arlt , M. Kueker , S. Sofia

High-resolution images of the solar surface show a granulation pattern of hot rising and cooler downward-sinking material -- the top of the deep-reaching solar convection zone. Convection plays a role for the thermal structure of the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-14 Bernd Freytag , Matthias Steffen , Hans-Günter Ludwig , Sven Wedemeyer-Böhm , Werner Schaffenberger , Oskar Steiner

The impressive development of global numerical simulations of turbulent stellar interiors unveiled a variety of possible differential rotation (solar or anti-solar), meridional circulation (single or multi-cellular), and dynamo states…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 A. Strugarek , P. Beaudoin , A. S. Brun , P. Charbonneau , S. Mathis , P. K. Smolarkiewicz

The oscillation frequencies observed in Sun-like stars are susceptible to being shifted by magnetic activity effects. The measured shifts depend on a complex relationship involving the mode type, the field strength and spatial distribution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-17 Alexandra E. L. Thomas , William J. Chaplin , Sarbani Basu , Ben Rendle , Guy Davies , Andrea Miglio

The power spectrum of light curves from satellites like CoRoT and TESS of massive main-sequence stars show stochastic low-frequency (SLF) variability. To investigate the origin of this phenomenon, we conducted high-resolution 3D…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-16 Praneet Pathak , Simon Blouin , Falk Herwig , Paul R. Woodward

We consider a differentially rotating, 2D stellar disk perturbed by two steady state spiral density waves moving at different patterns speeds. Our investigation is based on direct numerical integration of initially circular test-particle…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 I. Minchev , A. C. Quillen

Context: Observations of asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars with increasing spatial resolution reveal new layers of complexity of atmospheric processes on a variety of scales. Aim: To analyze the physical mechanisms that cause asymmetries…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 Bernd Freytag , Sofie Liljegren , Susanne Höfner

We present results from numerical simulations of the interaction of internal gravity waves (IGW) with magnetic fields in the radiative interior of the Sun. In this second paper, the waves are forced self-consistently by an overlying…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 T. M. Rogers , K. B. MacGregor

Tidal dissipation in stars is one of the key physical mechanisms that drive the evolution of binary and multiple stars. As in the Earth oceans, it corresponds to the resonant excitation of their eigenmodes of oscillation and their damping.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 P. Auclair-Desrotour , S. Mathis , C. Le Poncin-Lafitte

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

Winds of AGB stars are thought to be driven by a combination of pulsation-induced shock waves and radiation pressure on dust. In dynamic atmosphere and wind models, the stellar pulsation is often simulated by prescribing a simple sinusoidal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 S. Liljegren , S. Höfner , W. Nowotny , K. Eriksson

The rich harvest of seismic observations over the past decade provides evidence of angular momentum redistribution in stellar interiors that is not reproduced by current evolution codes. In this context, transport by internal gravity waves…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-30 C. Pinçon , K. Belkacem , M. J. Goupil

We present the first three-dimensional (3D), hydrodynamic simulations of the core convection zone (CZ) and extended radiative zone spanning from 1% to 90% of the stellar radius of an intermediate mass (3 $\mathrm{M}_\odot$) star. This…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-01 P. V. F. Edelmann , R. P. Ratnasingam , M. G. Pedersen , D. M. Bowman , V. Prat , T. M. Rogers