Angular Momentum Loss and Stellar spin-down in Magnetic Massive Stars

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2008-12-15

arxiv.org/abs/0812.2836v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

2 pages, Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 259, 2009 Cosmic Magnetic Fields: From Planets, to Stars and Galaxies

Scientific paper

10.1017/S174392130903097X

We examine the angular momentum loss and associated rotational spin-down for magnetic hot stars with a line-driven stellar wind and a rotation-aligned dipole magnetic field. Our analysis here is based on our previous 2-D numerical MHD simulation study that examines the interplay among wind, field, and rotation as a function of two dimensionless parameters, W(=Vrot/Vorb) and 'wind magnetic confinement', $\eta_\ast$ defined below. We compare and contrast the 2-D, time variable angular momentum loss of this dipole model of a hot-star wind with the classical 1-D steady-state analysis by Weber and Davis (WD), who used an idealized monopole field to model the angular momentum loss in the solar wind. Despite the differences, we find that the total angular momentum loss averaged over both solid angle and time follows closely the general WD scaling $\dot {J} \sim \dot {M} \Omega R_A^2$. The key distinction is that for a dipole field Alfv\`en radius $R_A$ is significantly smaller than for the monopole field WD used in their analyses. This leads to a slower stellar spin-down for the dipole field with typical spin-down times of order 1 Myr for several known magnetic massive stars.

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