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Using asteroseismic data and stellar evolution models we make the first detection of a convective core in a Kepler field main-sequence star, putting a stringent constraint on the total size of the mixed zone and showing that extra mixing…

Stars on the lower main sequence (F-type through M-type) have substantial convective envelopes beneath their stellar photospheres. Convection in these regions can couple with rotation to build global-scale structures that may be observable…

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Convection of an internally heated fluid, confined between top and bottom plates of equal temperature, is studied by direct numerical simulation in two and three dimensions. The unstably stratified upper region drives convection that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-06-30 David Goluskin , Erwin P. van der Poel

In this paper we describe our convective hydrocodes for radial stellar pulsation. We adopt the Kuhfuss (1986) model of convection, reformulated for the use in stellar pulsation hydrocodes. Physical as well as numerical assumptions of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-13 R. Smolec , P. Moskalik

Spectroscopic studies of Galactic O and B stars show that many stars with masses above 8 M$_{\odot}$ are observed in the HR diagram just beyond the Main-Sequence (MS) band predicted by stellar models computed with a moderate overshooting.…

Multidimensional hydrodynamic simulations of shell convection in massive stars suggest the development of aspherical perturbations that may be amplified during iron core-collapse. These perturbations have a crucial and qualitative impact on…

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We investigate the role of convection in the formation of atomic and molecular lines in the atmosphere of a red giant star. For this purpose we study the formation properties of spectral lines that belong to a number of astrophysically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-16 A. Kucinskas , M. Steffen , H. -G. Ludwig , V. Dobrovolskas , A. Ivanauskas , J. Klevas , D. Prakapavicius , E. Caffau , P. Bonifacio

Massive star formation requires the accretion of gas at high rate while the star is already bright. Its actual luminosity depends sensitively on the stellar structure. We compute pre-main-sequence tracks for massive and intermediate-mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Lionel Haemmerlé , Thomas Peters

The recent detection of a convective core in a main-sequence solar-type star is used here to test particular models of dark matter (DM) particles, those with masses and scattering cross sections in the range of interest for the DM…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jordi Casanellas , Isa M. Brandão , Yveline Lebreton

Context. Synthetic model atmosphere calculations are still the most commonly used tool when determining precise stellar parameters and stellar chemical compositions. Besides three-dimensional models that consistently solve for hydrodynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 X. S. Wu , S. Alexeeva , L. Mashonkina , L. Wang , G. Zhao , F. Grupp

Stellar convection is a non-local process responsible for the transport of heat and chemical species. It can lead to enhanced mixing through convective overshooting and excitation of internal gravity waves (IGWs) at convective boundaries.…

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Convective dissolution is the process by which CO$_2$ injected in deep geological formations dissolves into the aqueous phase, which allows storing it perennially by gravity. The process results from buoyancy-coupled Darcy flow and solute…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-06 Jayabrata Dhar , Patrice Meunier , François Nadal , Yves Méheust

The frequencies of gravity mode oscillations are determined by the chemical, thermal, and structural properties of stellar interiors, facilitating the study of internal mixing mechanisms in stars. We investigate the impact of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 Hamed Ghasemi , Murat Uzundag , Cole Johnston , Conny Aerts

Understanding the collapse of dense molecular cloud cores to stellar densities and the subsequent evolution of the protostar is of importance to model the feedback effects such an object has on its surrounding environment, as well as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-06 Adnan Ali Ahmad , Matthias González , Patrick Hennebelle , Benoît Commerçon

We explore the three-dimensional properties of convective, luminous ($L\approx10^{4.5}-10^{5}L_\odot$), Hydrogen-rich envelopes of Red Supergiants (RSGs) based on radiation hydrodynamic simulations in spherical geometry using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-04 Jared A. Goldberg , Yan-Fei Jiang , Lars Bildsten

Useful information from the inner layers of stellar pulsators may be derived from the study of their oscillations. In this paper we analyse three diagnostic tools suggested in the literature built from the oscillation frequencies computed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 I. M. Brandão , M. S. Cunha , O. L. Creevey , J. Christensen-Dalsgaard

We study the formation and evolution of a convective layer when a stably-stratified fluid with a composition gradient is cooled from above. We perform a series of 2D simulations using the Bousinessq approximation with Prandtl number ranging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-08 J. R. Fuentes , A. Cumming

Atmospheric convection behaves differently in hydrogen-rich atmospheres compared to higher mean molecular weight atmospheres due to compositional gradients of tracers. Previous 1D studies predict that when a condensible tracer exceeds a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 Namrah Habib , Raymond T. Pierrehumbert

We propose a methodological framework to perform forward asteroseismic modeling of stars with a convective core, based on gravity-mode oscillations. These probe the near-core region in the deep stellar interior. The modeling relies on a set…

We study the formation, evolution and collapse of dense cores by tracking structures in a magnetohydrodynamic simulation of a star-forming cloud. We identify cores using the dendrogram algorithm and utilize machine learning techniques,…