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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
Volume 724, Issue 1, Pages L34-L38Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/724/1/L34
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magnetohydrodynamics (MHD); stars: interiors; stars: magnetic field; stars: neutron; Sun: magnetic topology; white dwarfs
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- French PNPS (CNRS/INSU)
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The existence of stable magnetic configurations in white dwarfs, neutron stars, and various non-convective stellar regions is now well recognized. It has recently been shown numerically that various families of equilibria, including axisymmetric mixed poloidal-toroidal configurations, are stable. Here we test the stability of an analytically derived non-force-free magnetic equilibrium resulting from an initial relaxation (self-organization) process, using three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations: the obtained mixed configuration is compared with the dynamical evolution of its purely poloidal and purely toroidal components, both known to be unstable. The mixed equilibrium shows no sign of instability under white noise perturbations. This configuration therefore provides a good description of magnetic equilibrium topology inside non-convective stellar objects and will be useful to initialize magneto-rotational transport in stellar evolution codes and in multi-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations.
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