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arXiv 2006.08230astro-ph.SRphysics.flu-dyn
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稳定分层恒星辐射带中磁场和差旋的相互作用

Interplay between magnetic fields and differential rotation in a stably stratified stellar radiative zone

L. Jouve, F. Lignières, M. Gaurat

摘要:

本研究的目的是研究恒星辐射区产生的流场和场,该辐射区最初是在大尺度极向磁场贯穿整个区域的情况下差分旋转的。我们集中在轴对称配置所产生的初始绕组的磁场线和这些配置上可能的不稳定性。我们的目标,特别是在评估稳定系统的分层的作用。我们进行2D和3D的全球Boussinesq数值模拟开始从一个初始的径向或圆柱形的差分旋转和一个大规模的极向磁场。在与Alfvén频率相比大的旋转频率的条件下,建立了由其环形分量强烈主导的磁位形。模拟的参数选择尊重一个典型的恒星辐射带的时间尺度的顺序。在此框架下,轴对称演化研究通过改变热扩散,Brünt-Väisälä频率,旋转和初始极向场强度的相对影响。我们发现轴对称状态只依赖于$t_{es}/t_{Ap}$,即Eddington-Sweet环流时间尺度与Alfvén时间尺度之比. Boussinesq方程的尺度分析使我们能够恢复这一结果。在圆柱形的情况下,磁旋转不稳定性的发展时,热扩散率是足够高的,使有利的波数是不敏感的稳定分层的影响。在径向情况下,磁旋转不稳定性是由横向剪切驱动的,横向剪切是由洛伦兹力对流动的反作用产生的。增加层结水平,则不稳定性的增长率基本上不受影响,而其水平长度尺度则增长。

英文摘要:

The present study aims at studying the flow and field produced by a stellar radiative zone which is initially made to rotate differentially in the presence of a large-scale poloidal magnetic field threading the whole domain. We focus both on the axisymmetric configurations produced by the initial winding-up of the magnetic field lines and on the possible instabilities of those configurations. We aim in particular at assessing the role of the stratification at stabilising the system. We perform 2D and 3D global Boussinesq numerical simulations started from an initial radial or cylindrical differential rotation and a large-scale poloidal magnetic field. Under the conditions of a large rotation frequency compared to the Alfvén frequency, a magnetic configuration strongly dominated by its toroidal component is built. The parameters of the simulations are chosen to respect the ordering of time scales of a typical stellar radiative zone. In this framework, the axisymmetric evolution is studied by varying the relative effects of the thermal diffusion, the Brünt-Väisälä frequency, the rotation and the initial poloidal field strength. We find that the axisymmetric state only depends on $t_{es}/t_{Ap}$, the ratio between the Eddington-Sweet circulation time scale and the Alfvén time scale. A scale analysis of the Boussinesq equations allows us to recover this result. In the cylindrical case, a magneto-rotational instability develops when the thermal diffusivity is sufficiently high to enable the favored wavenumbers to be insensitive to the effects of the stable stratification. In the radial case, the magneto-rotational instability is driven by the latitudinal shear created by the back-reaction of the Lorentz force on the flow. Increasing the level of stratification then leaves the growth rate of the instability mainly unaffected while its horizontal length scale grows.

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