Are there any stable magnetic fields in barotropic stars?

Details Are there any stable magnetic fields in barotropic stars? Are there any stable magnetic fields in barotropic stars?

2012-02-10

arxiv.org/abs/1202.2339v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

15 pages, 10 figures

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We construct barotropic stellar equilibria, containing magnetic fields with both poloidal and toroidal field components. We extend earlier results by exploring the effect of different magnetic field and current distributions. Our results suggest that the boundary treatment plays a major role in whether the poloidal or toroidal field component is globally dominant. Using time evolutions we provide the first stability test for mixed poloidal-toroidal fields in barotropic stars, finding that all these fields suffer instabilities due to one of the field components: these are localised around the pole for toroidal-dominated equilibria and in the closed-field line region for poloidal-dominated equilibria. Rotation provides only partial stabilisation. There appears to be very limited scope for the existence of stable magnetic fields in barotropic stars. We discuss what additional physics from real stars may allow for stable fields.

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