Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-11-02
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
6 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Magnetorotational instability (MRI) has been suggested to lead a rapid growth of the magnetic field in core collapse supernovae and produce departures from spherical syymmetry that can be important in determining the explosion mechanism. We address the problem of stability in differentially rotating magnetized proto-neutron stars at the beginning of their evolution. Criteria for MRI in proto-neutron stars are derived without simplying assumptions about a weak magnetic field and are substantially different from the standard condition. If the magnetic field is strong, MRI can occur only in the neighbourhood of the region where the spherical radial component of the magnetic field vanishes. The growth rate of MRI is relatively low except for perturbations with very small scales which usually are not detected in numerical simulations. We find that MRI in proto-neutron stars grows more slowly than than the double diffusive instability analogous the Goldreich-Schubert-Fricke instability in ordinary stars.
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