Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-12-13
Astron.Nachr.328:1150-1154,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages, 9 figures
Scientific paper
10.1002/asna.200710859
Stability of toroidal magnetic field in a stellar radiation zone is considered for the cases of uniform and differential rotation. In the rigidly rotating radiative core shortly below the tachocline, the critical magnetic field for instability is about 600 G. The unstable disturbances for slightly supercritical fields have short radial scales ~1 Mm. Radial mixing produced by the instability is estimated to conclude that the internal field of the sun can exceed the critical value of 600 G only marginally. Otherwise, the mixing is too strong and not compatible with the observed lithium abundance. Analysis of joint instability of differential rotation and toroidal field leads to the conclusion that axisymmetric models of the laminar solar tachocline are stable to nonaxisymmetric disturbances. The question of whether sun-like stars can posses tachoclines is addressed with positive answer for stars with rotation periods shorter than about two months.
Kitchatinov Leonid L.
Rudiger Günther
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