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场链与磁螺旋度密度

Field linkage and magnetic helicity density

K. Lund, M. Jardine, A. J. B. Russell, J. -F. Donati, R. Fares, C. P. Folsom

摘要:

磁场的螺旋度是理想MHD中守恒的基本性质。可以通过塞曼-多普勒成像绘制恒星表面的大尺度磁场图,在恒星背景下探索磁场。最近对质量范围为0.1-1.34 M $_\odot$的51颗恒星的研究表明,光球磁螺旋度密度在与环向场能量作图时遵循单一幂律,但在与极向场能量作图时分裂为两个分支。这两个分支将$\sim$ 0.5 M $_\odot$之上和之下的恒星分开。我们在这里提出了一种新的方法可视化螺旋度密度的链接的环形和极向场,映射在整个恒星表面。这种方法使我们能够对提供不同质量和旋转速率的恒星螺旋度密度的场联系进行分类。我们发现,在低质量分支的恒星往往有环形场,是非轴对称的,因此通过正负极向场的区域链接。一颗质量较低的恒星可能与质量较高的恒星有相同的螺旋度密度,尽管它们有更强的极向场。因此,质量较低的恒星在产生大尺度螺旋度方面效率较低。

英文摘要:

The helicity of a magnetic field is a fundamental property that is conserved in ideal MHD. It can be explored in the stellar context by mapping large-scale magnetic fields across stellar surfaces using Zeeman-Doppler imaging. A recent study of 51 stars in the mass range 0.1-1.34 M$_\odot$ showed that the photospheric magnetic helicity density follows a single power law when plotted against the toroidal field energy, but splits into two branches when plotted against the poloidal field energy. These two branches divide stars above and below $\sim$ 0.5 M$_\odot$. We present here a novel method of visualising the helicity density in terms of the linkage of the toroidal and poloidal fields that are mapped across the stellar surface. This approach allows us to classify the field linkages that provide the helicity density for stars of different masses and rotation rates. We find that stars on the lower-mass branch tend to have toroidal fields that are non-axisymmetric and so link through regions of positive and negative poloidal field. A lower-mass star may have the same helicity density as a higher-mass star, despite having a stronger poloidal field. Lower-mass stars are therefore less efficient at generating large-scale helicity.

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