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arXiv 1902.08227astro-ph.SR
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减缓恒星核心的旋转

Slowing the Spins of Stellar Cores

Jim Fuller, Anthony L. Piro, Adam S. Jermyn

摘要:

恒星内部的角动量(AM)演化,以及由此产生的恒星残骸的旋转速率,仍然知之甚少。对红巨星的天文地震测量显示,它们的核心旋转速度比表面快得多,但比理论预测的要慢得多,这表明在它们的辐射核心中有一个未知的AM传输源。受此启发,我们调查的磁泰勒不稳定性,并认为它饱和时的扰动磁场能量的湍流耗散等于通过绕组产生的磁能。这导致更大的磁场振幅,更有效的AM传输,和更小的剪切比经典泰勒-斯普鲁特发电机预测。我们提供了有效AM扩散率的处方,并将其纳入数值恒星模型,发现它们在很大程度上再现了(1)太阳和主序星的近刚性旋转,(2)氢壳和氦燃烧期间低质量红巨星的核心旋转速率,以及(3)白矮星的旋转速率。我们讨论恒星旋转演化,内部旋转配置文件,旋转混合,和紧凑的对象的自旋的影响。

英文摘要:

The angular momentum (AM) evolution of stellar interiors, along with the resulting rotation rates of stellar remnants, remains poorly understood. Asteroseismic measurements of red giant stars reveal that their cores rotate much faster than their surfaces, but much slower than theoretically predicted, indicating an unidentified source of AM transport operates in their radiative cores. Motivated by this, we investigate the magnetic Tayler instability and argue that it saturates when turbulent dissipation of the perturbed magnetic field energy is equal to magnetic energy generation via winding. This leads to larger magnetic field amplitudes, more efficient AM transport, and smaller shears than predicted by the classic Tayler-Spruit dynamo. We provide prescriptions for the effective AM diffusivity and incorporate them into numerical stellar models, finding they largely reproduce (1) the nearly rigid rotation of the Sun and main sequence stars, (2) the core rotation rates of low-mass red giants during hydrogen shell and helium burning, and (3) the rotation rates of white dwarfs. We discuss implications for stellar rotational evolution, internal rotation profiles, rotational mixing, and the spins of compact objects.

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