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差动旋转辐射区中磁场的演化

Evolution of a magnetic field in a differentially rotating radiative zone

Mathieu Gaurat, Laurène Jouve, François Lignières, Thomas Gastine

摘要:

最近对主序星中等质量恒星进行的分光偏振测量显示,在观测到的磁场分布中,Ap/Bp星的kG偶极子与织女星和天狼星的亚高斯磁场之间存在二分法。我们想测试这种二分法是否与差分旋转辐射区中大尺度磁配置的稳定性与不稳定性有关。本文计算了偶极场穿过差动旋转壳体时的轴对称磁场。一个完整的参数研究,包括各种密度分布和初始和边界条件进行了二维数值代码。然后,我们专注于之间的比率的环形和极向分量的磁场和讨论的稳定性的配置占主导地位的环形分量使用本地的稳定性标准和见解,从最近的三维数值模拟。数值结果和一个简单的模型表明,在初始极向场的阿尔文交叉时间之后,环向和极向磁场之间的比率最高。对于高密度的对比度,这个比例收敛到一个渐近值,因此可以外推到现实的恒星情况。然后,我们考虑非轴对称扰动的磁位形的稳定性,并发现,占主导地位的环向分量的配置很可能是不稳定的,如果剪切强度显着高于极向Alfvén频率。一个表达式的临界极向场以下的磁场可能是不稳定的,发现和比较的下限Ap/Bp磁场。

英文摘要:

Recent spectropolarimetric surveys of main-sequence intermediate-mass stars have exhibited a dichotomy in the distribution of the observed magnetic field between the kG dipoles of Ap/Bp stars and the sub-Gauss magnetism of Vega and Sirius. We would like to test whether this dichotomy is linked to the stability versus instability of large-scale magnetic configurations in differentially rotating radiative zones. We computed the axisymmetric magnetic field obtained from the evolution of a dipolar field threading a differentially rotating shell. A full parameter study including various density profiles and initial and boundary conditions was performed with a 2D numerical code. We then focused on the ratio between the toroidal and poloidal components of the magnetic field and discuss the stability of the configurations dominated by the toroidal component using local stability criteria and insights from recent 3D numerical simulations. The numerical results and a simple model show that the ratio between the toroidal and the poloidal magnetic fields is highest after an Alfvén crossing time of the initial poloidal field. For high density contrasts, this ratio converges towards an asymptotic value that can thus be extrapolated to realistic stellar cases. We then consider the stability of the magnetic configurations to non-axisymmetric perturbations and find that configurations dominated by the toroidal component are likely to be unstable if the shear strength is significantly higher than the poloidal Alfvén frequency. An expression for the critical poloidal field below which magnetic fields are likely to be unstable is found and is compared to the lower bound of Ap/Bp magnetic fields.

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