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太阳型恒星自旋下降的随机模型

On a stochastic model for the spin-down of solar type stars

Nicolas Leprovost, Eun-Jin Kim

摘要:

太阳型恒星自转历史的模拟是现代天体物理学中尚未解决的问题。主要的挑战之一是解释年轻恒星自转速率分布的色散。以前的工作主张发电机饱和或磁场本地化,以解释存在的快速旋转和星盘耦合的前主序列,以占慢旋转的存在。在这里,我们提出了一个新的模型,可以说明存在的两种类型的转子纳入波动的太阳风。这使得自旋下降问题在本质上是概率性的,一些恒星平均比其他恒星经历更多的制动。我们表明,随机波动的角动量的损失,提高人口的快速和缓慢的旋转相比,确定性的情况下。此外,旋转速度的分布严重偏向大值与观察一致。

英文摘要:

Modeling the rotation history of solar-type stars is still an unsolved problem in modern astrophysics. One of the main challenges is to explain the dispersion in the distribution of stellar rotation rate for young stars. Previous works have advocated dynamo saturation or magnetic field localization to explain the presence of fast rotators and star-disk coupling in pre-main sequence to account for the existence of slow rotators. Here, we present a new model that can account for the presence of both types of rotators by incorporating fluctuations in the solar wind. This renders the spin-down problem probabilistic in nature, some stars experiencing more braking on average than others. We show that random fluctuations in the loss of angular momentum enhance the population of both fast and slow rotators compared to the deterministic case. Furthermore, the distribution of rotational speed is severely skewed towards large values in agreement with observations.

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