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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 777, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/777/2/153
Keywords
convection; magnetohydrodynamics (MHD); stars: late-type; stars: magnetic field; stars: rotation; turbulence
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Funding
- NASA [NNX08AI57G, NNX11AJ36G]
- NASA NESSF [NNX10AM74H]
- ERC [207430 STARS2]
- CNRS/INSU
- SMD [g26133, s0943]
- NSF award [CNS-0821794]
- University of Colorado Boulder
- NASA [143045, NNX11AJ36G, 129664, NNX10AM74H] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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Magnetic activity and differential rotation are commonly observed features on main-sequence F-type stars. We seek to make contact with such observations and to provide a self-consistent picture of how differential rotation and magnetic fields arise in the interiors of these stars. The three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic anelastic spherical harmonic code is employed to simulate global-scale convection and dynamo processes in a 1.2M(circle dot) F-type star at two rotation rates. The simulations are carried out in spherical shells that encompass most of the convection zone and a portion of the stably stratified radiative zone below it, allowing us to explore the effects a stable zone has upon the morphology of the global-scale magnetic fields. We find that dynamo action with a high degree of time variation occurs in the star rotating more rapidly at 20 Omega(circle dot), with the polarity of the mean field reversing on a timescale of about 1600 days. Between reversals, the magnetic energy rises and falls with a fairly regular period, with three magnetic energy cycles required to complete a reversal. The magnetic energy cycles and polarity reversals arise due to a linking of the polar-slip instability in the stable region and dynamo action present in the convection zone. For the more slowly rotating case (10 Omega(circle dot)), persistent wreaths of magnetism are established and maintained by dynamo action. Compared to their hydrodynamic progenitors, the dynamo states here involve a marked reduction in the exhibited latitudinal differential rotation, which also vary during the course of a cycle.
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