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Scientific paper
Jan 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993aspc...40..591s&link_type=abstract
In: Inside the stars; Proceedings of the 137th IAU Colloquium, Univ. of Vienna, Austria, Apr. 13-18, 1992 (A93-53126 23-90), p.
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Cool Stars, Dynamo Theory, Stellar Atmospheres, Atmospheric Heating, Binary Stars, Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram, Stellar Activity, Stellar Convection, Stellar Magnetic Fields, Stellar Rotation
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Nonradiatively heated outer atmospheres are common among stars on the cool side of the HR diagram. These atmospheres resemble that of the sun in which the bulk of the heating is associated with magnetic fields. Consequently it is assumed that other cool stars also generate and maintain an internal magnetic field through a dynamo action. This field gives rise to a wide spectrum of phenomena in the stellar atmosphere. The dynamo process that sustains the field thrives on the interaction of rotation and turbulent convection. In this review I formulate a set of propositions outlining our present knowledge of this interaction as distilled from stellar observations. In doing so, I outline the effects of stellar evolution on rotation rate, discuss some of the proposed 'dividing lines' in the HR-diagram, and comment on the possible role of the convective turnover time in dynamo efficiency and on dynamo activity for extremely slowly and rapidly rotating stars.
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