Hostname: page-component-84b7d79bbc-dwq4g Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-28T05:51:30.031Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Rotation and Magnetic Fields: the Evil Twins of Stellar Evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2006

G. Alecian ,
O. Richard ,
S. Vauclair  and
P. Charbonneau
P. Charbonneau*
Affiliation:
Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, CP. 6128 Centre-Ville, Montréal, Qc, H3C-3J7, Canada
*
paulchar@astro.umontreal.ca
Get access

Abstract

In this paper I give an overview of the numerous ways in which rotation and magnetic fields can interact under stellar interior conditions. I first provide “tutorial” examples of how magnetic fields can (1) alter existing stellar internal flows, (2) generate internal flows, and of how rotation can (3) amplify or (4) destroy magnetic fields. The upshot of all this is that treating rotation or magnetic fields in isolation of one another, as intermediate steps towards the “full picture”, may yield a situation that can only be applied meaningfully under very limited and specific astrophysical circumstances, if any.

Type
Research Article
Information
European Astronomical Society Publications Series , Volume 17: Element Stratification in Stars: 40 Years of Atomic Diffusion , 2005 , pp. 217 - 226
Copyright
© EAS, EDP Sciences, 2005

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)