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恒星磁场的能量收支

The energy budget of stellar magnetic fields

V. See, M. Jardine, A. A. Vidotto, J. -F. Donati, C. P. Folsom, S. Boro Saikia, J. Bouvier, R. Fares, S. G. Gregory, G. Hussain, S. V. Jeffers, S. C. Marsden, J… 展开作者

V. See, M. Jardine, A. A. Vidotto, J. -F. Donati, C. P. Folsom, S. Boro Saikia, J. Bouvier, R. Fares, S. G. Gregory, G. Hussain, S. V. Jeffers, S. C. Marsden, J. Morin, C. Moutou, J. D. do Nascimento, P. Petit, L. Rosen, I. A. Waite

摘要:

光谱偏振观测已被用于绘制恒星磁场图,其中许多显示出环形的方位场的强带。已经提出了许多解释来解释这些字段可能是如何产生的,尽管没有一个是确定的。在本文中,我们研究了55颗恒星的样本的磁地图,质量范围为0.1-1.5 $\,{\rm M}_\odot$的环向场。我们发现环向场的能量与极向场的能量呈幂律关系。然而,在我们的样本中,功率指数并不是恒定的,质量小于和大于0.5 $\,{\rm M}_\odot$的恒星的功率指数分别为0.72 $\pm$ 0.08和1.25 $\pm$ 0.06。有一些证据表明,这两个幂律对应于饱和和不饱和状态的旋转活动关系的恒星。此外,我们的例子表明,强环向场必须产生轴对称。这些波段出现的纬度取决于恒星的自转周期,快速自转的恒星比慢速自转的恒星显示出更高的纬度波段。本文的结果提出了新的限制,为未来的发电机研究。

英文摘要:

Spectropolarimetric observations have been used to map stellar magnetic fields, many of which display strong bands of azimuthal fields that are toroidal. A number of explanations have been proposed to explain how such fields might be generated though none are definitive. In this paper, we examine the toroidal fields of a sample of 55 stars with magnetic maps, with masses in the range 0.1-1.5$\,{\rm M}_\odot$. We find that the energy contained in toroidal fields has a power law dependence on the energy contained in poloidal fields. However the power index is not constant across our sample, with stars less and more massive than 0.5$\,{\rm M}_\odot$ having power indices of 0.72$\pm$0.08 and 1.25$\pm$0.06 respectively. There is some evidence that these two power laws correspond to stars in the saturated and unsaturated regimes of the rotation-activity relation. Additionally, our sample shows that strong toroidal fields must be generated axisymmetrically. The latitudes at which these bands appear depend on the stellar rotation period with fast rotators displaying higher latitude bands than slow rotators. The results in this paper present new constraints for future dynamo studies.

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