Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-10-29
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 330 (2002) 160
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
7 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05100.x
From Zeeman Doppler images of the young, rapidly-rotating K0 dwarf AB Doradus, we have created a potential approximation to the observed radial magnetic field and have evolved it over 30 days due to the observed surface differential rotation, meridional flow and various diffusion rates. Assuming that the dark polar cap seen in Doppler images of this star is caused by the presence of a unipolar field, we have shown that the observed differential rotation will shear this field to produce the observed high-latitude band of unidirectional azimuthal field. By cross-correlating the evolved fields each day with the initial field we have followed the decay with time of the cross-correlation function. Over 30 days it decays by only 10 percent. This contrasts with the results of Barnes et al (1998), who show that on this timescale the spot distribution of He699 is uncorrelated. We propose that this is due to the effects of flux emergence changing the spot distributions.
Collier Cameron Andrew
Donati Jean-Francois
Jardine Moira M.
Pointer G. R.
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