Can we detect deep axisymmetric toroidal magnetic fields in stars?
Abstract
The current angular momentum (AM) transport models fail to reproduce asterosieimic observations. One of the best candidates to explain this discrepancy is the magnetic field in radiative zones with its various possible topologies, for instance axisymmetric toroidal magnetic field. If such azimuthal field is strong enough, the Tayler's instability could occur which induces a magnetic torque that allows a very efficient transport of AM and could trigger dynamo action in radiative layers. If such important field does not emerge at the surface, spectropolarimetry is blind. In this case, the only way to detect and characterise the field is by using magneto-asteroseismology. It consists in searching for the characteristic signatures of magnetic field in the observed frequency spectra of stellar oscillations.
- Publication:
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IAU Symposium
- Pub Date:
- 2024
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921322002617
- Bibcode:
- 2024IAUS..361..238D
- Keywords:
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- stars: early-type;
- stars: interiors;
- stars: magnetic fields