Stellar evolution with rotation and magnetic fields II: General equations for the transport by Tayler--Spruit dynamo

Details Stellar evolution with rotation and magnetic fields II: General equations for the transport by Tayler--Spruit dynamo Stellar evolution with rotation and magnetic fields II: General equations for the transport by Tayler--Spruit dynamo

2004-04-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0404417v1

Astron.Astrophys. 422 (2004) 225-237

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20034583

We further develop the Tayler--Spruit dynamo theory, based on the most efficient instability for generating magnetic fields in radiative layers of differentially rotating stars. We avoid the simplifying assumptions that either the $\mu$-- or the $T$--gradient dominates, but we treat the general case and we also account for the nonadiabatic effects, which favour the growth of the magnetic field. Stars with a magnetic field rotate almost as a solid body. Several of their properties (size of the core, MS lifetimes, tracks, abundances) are closer to those of models without rotation than with rotation only. In particular, the observed N/C or N/H excesses in OB stars are better explained by our previous models with rotation only than by the present models with magnetic fields that predict no nitrogen excesses. We show that there is a complex feedback loop between the magnetic instability and the thermal instability driving meridional circulation. This opens the possibility for further magnetic models, but at this stage we do not know the relative importance of the magnetic fields due to the Tayler instability in stellar interiors.

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