Thermohaline convection in main sequence stars

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Jul 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009coast.158...51v&link_type=abstract

"Communications in Asteroseismology, Vol.158, p. 51 Proceedings of "38th Liege International Astrophysical Colloquium: Evolutio

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Thermohaline convection is a well-known process in oceanography, which has long been put aside in stellar physics. In the ocean, it occurs when warm salted layers sit on top of cool and less salted ones. Then the salted water rapidly diffuses downwards even in the presence of stabilizing temperature gradients, due to double diffusion between the falling blobs and their surroundings. A similar process may occur in stars in case of inverse μ-gradients in a thermally stabilized medium. This process has important consequences in stellar physics.

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