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Internal gravity waves (IGWs) are naturally produced by convection in stellar envelopes, and they could be an important mechanism for transporting angular momentum in the radiative interiors of stars. Prior work has established that they…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pavel A. Denissenkov , Marc Pinsonneault , Keith B. MacGregor

Context: We study the impact of two-dimensional spherical shells on compressible convection. Realistic profiles for density and temperature from a one-dimensional stellar evolution code are used to produce a model of a large stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 J. Pratt , I. Baraffe , T. Goffrey , C. Geroux , M. Viallet , D. Folini , T. Constantino , M. Popov , R. Walder

Internal gravity waves propagate in stellar radiative zones and transport angular momentum throughout the evolution of stars, shaping the internal rotation pro le of these regions. We use the analytical study of Andre\'e et al. (2018) to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Q. André , S. Mathis , L. Amard

Sub-stellar objects exhibit photometric variability, which is believed to be caused by a number of processes, such as magnetically-driven spots or inhomogeneous cloud coverage. Recent models have shown that turbulent flows and waves,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-04 Amy Parent , Ruth E. Falconer , Elspeth K. H. Lee , Karen A. Meyer , Craig R. Stark

In binaries composed of either early-type stars or white dwarfs, the dominant tidal process involves the excitation of internal gravity waves (IGWs), which propagate towards the stellar surface, and their dissipation via nonlinear wave…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-24 Yubo Su , Daniel Lecoanet , Dong Lai

We propose, for the first time, a two-dimensional model for the nonlinear coupling of internal gravity and thermal waves in the presence of temperature-dependent density inhomogeneity due to thermal expansion and thermal feedback in…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 S. Das Adhikary , A. P. Misra

The problem of radiation by the charged particles of the intergalactic medium (IGM) when a passing gravitational wave (GW) accelerate them is investigated. The largest acceleration (taking a charge from rest to a maximum speed which remains…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-13 Richard Lieu , Kristen Lackeos , Bing Zhang

Primordial isocurvature perturbations, which can arise from various sources in the early Universe, have the potential to leave observable imprints on the gravitational-wave background and provide insights into the nature of primordial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-08 Chen Yuan , Zu-Cheng Chen , Lang Liu

Atmospheric gravity waves (AGWs) are low-frequency, buoyancy-driven waves that are generated by turbulent convection and propagate obliquely throughout the solar atmosphere. Their proposed energy contribution to the lower solar atmosphere…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-20 Oana Vesa , Jason Jackiewicz , Kevin Reardon

There is strong observational evidence that the convective cores of intermediate-mass and massive main sequence stars are substantially larger than those predicted by standard stellar-evolution models. However, it is unclear what physical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-20 R. Andrassy , G. Leidi , J. Higl , P. V. F. Edelmann , F. R. N. Schneider , F. K. Roepke

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

The seismic data provided by the satellites CoRoT and Kepler enabled us to probe the internal rotation of thousands of evolved low-mass stars. Subsequently, several studies showed that current stellar evolution codes are unable to reproduce…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-06 C. Pinçon , K. Belkacem , M. J. Goupil , J. P. Marques

Recent photometric observations of massive stars have identified a low-frequency power excess which appears as stochastic low-frequency variability in light curve observations. We present the oscillation properties of high resolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-01 William Thompson , Falk Herwig , Paul R. Woodward , Huaqing Mao , Pavel Denissenkov , Dominic M. Bowman , Simon Blouin

It has been known that gravitational waves (GWs) transfer energy to viscous matter through which they propagate, but the effect is too weak to be astrophysically significant. Using linearized perturbations about a Minkowski background, we…

The expansion history and content of the Universe between the end of inflation and the onset of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis is mostly unknown. In this paper, we study gravitational waves (GWs) induced by matter isocurvature fluctuations in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-22 Guillem Domènech , Jan Tränkle

We present multidimensional modeling of convection and oscillations in main-sequence stars somewhat more massive than the Sun, using three separate approaches: 1) Using the 3-D planar StellarBox radiation hydrodynamics code to model the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-17 Joyce A. Guzik , T. H. Morgan , N. J. Nelson , C. Lovekin , K. Kosak , I. N. Kitiashvili , N. N. Mansour , A. Kosovichev

We perform 2D, fully compressible, time-implicit simulations of convection in a solar-like model with the MUSIC code. Our main motivation is to explore the impact of a common tactic adopted in numerical simulations of convection that use…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-27 I. Baraffe , J. Pratt , D. G. Vlaykov , T. Guillet , T. Goffrey , A. Le Saux , T. Constantino

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

We study the induced primordial gravitational waves (GW) coming from the effect of scalar perturbation on the tensor perturbation at the second order of cosmological perturbation theory. We use the evolution of the standard model degrees of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-19 Fazlollah Hajkarim , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

The gravitational waves (GW) background generated in a double inflationary model, with two scalar fields mutually interacting through gravity only, and its relative contribution $T/S$ to large-angle temperature fluctuations of the relic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 David Polarski , Alexei A. Starobinsky