dc.contributor.author | Weber, MA | |
dc.contributor.author | Browning, MK | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-08-22T09:41:42Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-08-20 | |
dc.description.abstract | Many fully convective stars exhibit a wide variety of surface magnetism, including starspots and chromospheric activity. The manner by which bundles of magnetic field traverse portions of the convection zone to emerge at the stellar surface is not especially well understood. In the Solar context, some insight into this process has been gleaned by regarding the magnetism as consisting partly of idealized thin flux tubes (TFT). Here, we present the results of a large set of TFT simulations in a rotating spherical domain of convective flows representative of a 0.3 solar-mass, main-sequence star. This is the first study to investigate how individual flux tubes in such a star might rise under the combined influence of buoyancy, convection, and differential rotation. A time-dependent hydrodynamic convective flow field, taken from separate 3D simulations calculated with the anelastic equations, impacts the flux tube as it rises. Convective motions modulate the shape of the initially buoyant flux ring, promoting localized rising loops. Flux tubes in fully convective stars have a tendency to rise nearly parallel to the rotation axis. However, the presence of strong differential rotation allows some initially low latitude flux tubes of moderate strength to develop rising loops that emerge in the near-equatorial region. Magnetic pumping suppresses the global rise of the flux tube most efficiently in the deeper interior and at lower latitudes. The results of these simulations aim to provide a link between dynamo-generated magnetic fields, fluid motions, and observations of starspots for fully convective stars. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | This work was supported by the European Research Council
under ERC grant agreement no. 337705 (CHASM) and by a
Consolidated Grant from the UK STFC (ST/J001627/1).
Some of the calculations for this paper were performed on the
DiRAC Complexity machine, jointly funded by STFC and the
Large Facilities Capital Fund of BIS, and the University of
Exeter supercomputer, a DiRAC Facility jointly funded by
STFC, the Large Facilities Capital Fund of BIS, and the
University of Exeter. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol 827:95 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3847/0004-637X/827/2/95 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/23109 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | American Astronomical Society | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.00380v1 | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/25290 | en_GB |
dc.subject | astro-ph.SR | en_GB |
dc.subject | convection | en_GB |
dc.subject | magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) | en_GB |
dc.subject | stars | en_GB |
dc.subject | low-mass | en_GB |
dc.subject | magnetic field | en_GB |
dc.title | Modeling the rise of fibril magnetic fields in fully convective stars (article) | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2016-08-22T09:41:42Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0004-637X | |
dc.description | This is the final version of the article. Available from the publisher via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.description | The dataset associated with this article is available in ORE at: http://hdl.handle.net/10871/25290 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Astrophysical Journal | en_GB |