Possibility of a Relativistic Explanation for Stellar Magnetic Fields

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Oct 1965

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1965phrv..140..236c&link_type=abstract

Physical Review, vol. 140, Issue 1B, pp. 236-238

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It is suggested that the magnetic fields observed in the stars result from the role of the field in producing hydrostatic equilibrium when general-relativistic effects are included in the equations of magnetohydro-dynamics. The effect of relativity, for a nonuniformly rotating body such as the sun, is to introduce a force with symmetry which cannot be balanced by a pressure gradient or by the gradient of a gravitational potential. If the average magnetic force is equated to the average relativistic force, the value obtained for the magnetic field is in good agreement with observation.

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