Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Aug 1994
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994pasau..11..194l&link_type=abstract
Astronomical Society of Australia, Proceedings, vol. 11, no. 2, p. 194-197
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
2
Binary Stars, High Temperature Plasmas, Late Stars, Magnetic Effects, Stellar Magnetic Fields, Stellar Rotation, Angular Momentum, Magnetohydrodynamics, Stellar Envelopes, Stellar Evolution
Scientific paper
We discuss the basic concept and the problems of magnetic braking via magnetically controlled hot plasmas in late-type stars. We investigate the magnetic braking process in special magnetic field structures in both single stars and binaries. We find that in single solar-type stars, the high-order component of the observed complicated fields can account for the braking rate of the present Sun. However, this component cannot account for the braking rate of young solar-type stars, even though this field is much stronger than the simple (monopolar or dipolar) field usually adopted in braking models. For magnetically interacting cataclysmic binaries, the magnetic fields of the white dwarf greatly change the magnetic fields on the main-sequence secondaries. In particular, in synchronously rotating magnetic CVs (AM Herculis systems) magnetic braking may even turn off if the white dwarf magnetic field is sufficiently strong. These results suggest that the magnetic field structure has a crucial effect on magnetic braking.
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