Convective dynamos for rotating stars.
Abstract
Global dynamo theory is applied to the problem of why some stars have field reversing dynamos, and others do not. It is argued that convectively driven dynamos are the most likely source of magnetic fields in stars that have convection zones.
- Publication:
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SAO Special Report
- Pub Date:
- February 1982
- Bibcode:
- 1982SAOSR.392A.165G
- Keywords:
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- Dynamo Theory:Stars;
- Dynamo Theory:Sun;
- Convective Flow;
- Dynamo Theory;
- Stellar Magnetic Fields;
- Stellar Rotation;
- Amplitudes;
- Baroclinic Instability;
- Computation;
- Magnetohydrodynamics;
- Stellar Structure;
- Astrophysics