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Late-type stars rotate differentially owing to anisotropic turbulence in their outer convection zones. The rotation is called solar-like (SL) when the equator rotates fastest and anti-solar (AS) otherwise. Hydrodynamic simulations show a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-25 Bidya Binay Karak , Petri J. Kapyla , Maarit J. Kapyla , Axel Brandenburg , N. Olspert , J. Pelt

Neutron stars can harbor extremely strong magnetic fields, yet the structure and stability of their magnetic field configuration remain poorly understood. Observations of pulsars indicate that the large-scale external field is predominantly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-25 Aurora Capobianco , William Cook , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Brynmor Haskell , Jacob Fields

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 numerically model evolution of magnetic fields inside a neutron star under the influence of ambipolar diffusion in the weak-coupling mode in the one-fluid MHD approximation. Our simulations are three-dimensional and performed in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-09 Andrei P. Igoshev , Rainer Hollerbach

The paper considers dynamo generated by a shallow fluid layer in a celestial body (planet or star). This dynamo is based on the extra invariant for interacting magnetic Rossby waves. The magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is linearized on the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 Alexander M. Balk

The role of magnetic fields in the early stages of star formation is not well constrained. In order to discriminate between different star formation models, we analyze 3D magnetohydrodynamic simulations of low-mass cores and explore the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-18 Joyce W. Y. Lee , Charles L. H. Hull , Stella S. R. Offner

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

Observations in polarized emission reveal the existence of large-scale coherent magnetic fields in a wide range of spiral galaxies. Radio-polarization data show that these fields are strongly inclined towards the radial direction, with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Oliver Gressel , Udo Ziegler , Detlef Elstner , Günther Rüdiger

The aim of this article is to study how the differential rotation of solar-like stars is influenced by rotation rate and mass in presence of magnetic fields generated by a convective dynamo. We use the ASH code to model the convective…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 J. Varela , A. Strugarek , A. S. Brun

Observations of young open clusters have revealed a bimodal distribution of fast and slower rotation rates that has proven difficult to explain with predictive models of spin down that depend on rotation rates alone. The Metastable Dynamo…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-08 Cecilia Garraffo , Jeremy J. Drake , Ofer Cohen

The dynamics of stably stratified stellar radiative zones is of considerable interest due to the availability of increasingly detailed observations of Solar and stellar interiors. This article reports the first non-axisymmetric and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-13 Radostin D. Simitev , Friedrich H. Busse

The geomagnetic field has undergone hundreds of polarity reversals over Earth's history, at a variable pace. In numerical models of Earth's core dynamics, reversals occur with increasing frequency when the convective forcing is increased…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-05-09 Julien Aubert , Maylis Landeau , Alexandre Fournier , Thomas Gastine

Magnetic fields have been observed in massive Ap/Bp stars and presumably are also present in the radiative zone of solar-like stars. Yet, to date there is no clear understanding of the dynamics of the magnetic field in stably stratified…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-27 G. Monteiro , G. Guerrero , F. Del Sordo , A. Bonanno , P. K. Smolarkiewicz

The magnetic fields of terrestrial planets are generated in their liquid cores through dynamo action driven by thermal and compositional convection. The coexistence of these two buoyancy sources gives rise to double-diffusive convection…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-14 Wei Fan , Yufeng Lin

Planetary magnetic fields could impact the evolution of planetary atmospheres and have a role in the determination of the required conditions for the emergence and evolution of life (planetary habitability). We study here the role of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Jorge I. Zuluaga , Pablo A. Cuartas-Restrepo

Rotational scaling relationships are examined for the degree of equipartition between magnetic and kinetic energies in stellar convection zones. These scaling relationships are approached from two paradigms, with first a glance at scaling…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 K. ~C. Augustson , A. ~S. Brun , J. Toomre

Convection in the liquid outer core of the Earth is driven by thermal and chemical perturbations. The main purpose of this study is to examine the impact of double-diffusive convection on magnetic field generation by means of 3D global…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Théo Tassin , Thomas Gastine , Alexandre Fournier

Core convection and dynamo activity deep within rotating A-type stars of 2 solar masses are studied with 3--D nonlinear simulations. Our modeling considers the inner 30% by radius of such stars, thus capturing within a spherical domain the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Allan Sacha Brun , Matthew K. Browning , Juri Toomre

Strongly stratified hydromagnetic turbulence has previously been found to produce magnetic flux concentrations if the domain is large enough compared with the size of turbulent eddies. Mean-field simulations (MFS) using parameterizations of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-06 A. Brandenburg , O. Gressel , S. Jabbari , N. Kleeorin , I. Rogachevskii

We investigate the build-up of the galactic dynamo and subsequently the origin of a magnetic driven outflow. We use a setup of an isolated disc galaxy with a realistic circum-galactic medium (CGM). We find good agreement of the galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-01 Ulrich P. Steinwandel , Klaus Dolag , Harald Lesch , Benjamin P. Moster , Andreas Burkert , Almudena Prieto