arXivDaily arXiv每日学术速递 周一至周五更新
北美退伍军人节(Veterans Day),12 日无更新
arXiv 0812.2836astro-ph
收藏

磁性大质量恒星中的Angular Momentum损失和恒星自旋下降

Angular Momentum Loss and Stellar spin-down in Magnetic Massive Stars

Asif ud-Doula, Stanley P. Owocki, Richard H. D. Townsend

摘要:

我们研究了具有线驱动恒星风和旋转排列的偶极磁场的磁热星的角动量损失和相关的旋转自旋下降。我们的分析是基于我们以前的2-D数值MHD模拟研究,研究风,场和旋转之间的相互作用,作为两个无量纲参数的函数,W(=Vrot/Vorb)和“风磁约束”,$η_\ast$定义如下。我们比较和对比的2-D,时变的角动量损失的热星风的偶极子模型与经典的1-D稳态分析的韦伯和戴维斯(WD),谁使用了一个理想化的电磁场模型的角动量损失的太阳风。尽管存在差异,我们发现,总的角动量损失的平均立体角和时间密切遵循一般WD缩放$\dot {J} \sim \dot {M} ΩR_A^2$。关键的区别在于,对于偶极场,阿尔芬半径$R_A$明显小于他们分析中使用的偶极场WD。这导致了一个较慢的恒星自旋下降的偶极场与典型的自旋下降时间的顺序为100万年的几个已知的磁性大质量恒星。

英文摘要:

We examine the angular momentum loss and associated rotational spin-down for magnetic hot stars with a line-driven stellar wind and a rotation-aligned dipole magnetic field. Our analysis here is based on our previous 2-D numerical MHD simulation study that examines the interplay among wind, field, and rotation as a function of two dimensionless parameters, W(=Vrot/Vorb) and 'wind magnetic confinement', $η_\ast$ defined below. We compare and contrast the 2-D, time variable angular momentum loss of this dipole model of a hot-star wind with the classical 1-D steady-state analysis by Weber and Davis (WD), who used an idealized monopole field to model the angular momentum loss in the solar wind. Despite the differences, we find that the total angular momentum loss averaged over both solid angle and time follows closely the general WD scaling $\dot {J} \sim \dot {M} ΩR_A^2$. The key distinction is that for a dipole field Alfvèn radius $R_A$ is significantly smaller than for the monopole field WD used in their analyses. This leads to a slower stellar spin-down for the dipole field with typical spin-down times of order 1 Myr for several known magnetic massive stars.

机构、总结、中文摘要均由AI分析而来,可能存在错误,请以论文正文为准。

↑