期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 836, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa5c40
关键词
convection; hydrodynamics; stars: activity; stars: rotation; stars: solar-type
资金
- ERC [STARS2 207430]
- ANR Blanc Toupies [SIMI5-6 020 01]
- INSU/PNST
- CNES SolarOrbiter
- PLATO
- FP7 SpaceInn [312844]
- NASA [NNX11AJ36G, NNX13AG18G, NNX16AC92G]
- ERC SPIRE [647383]
- Canadian Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics
- Canada's Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
- CNES
- GOLF
- [1623]
- [RA1964]
- NASA [NNX16AC92G, 907117, 474072, NNX13AG18G] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
We seek to characterize how the change of global rotation rate influences the overall dynamics and large-scale flows arising in the convective envelopes of stars covering stellar spectral types from early G to late K. We do so through numerical simulations with the ASH code, where we consider stellar convective envelopes coupled to a radiative interior with various global properties. As solar-like stars spin down over the course of their main sequence evolution, such a change must have a direct impact on their dynamics and rotation state. We indeed find that three main states of rotation may exist for a given star: anti-solar-like (fast poles, slow equator), solar-like (fast equator, slow poles), or a cylindrical rotation profile. Under increasingly strict rotational constraints, the last profile can further evolve into a Jupiter-like profile, with alternating prograde and retrograde zonal jets. We have further assessed how far the convection and meridional flows overshoot into the radiative zone and investigated the morphology of the established tachocline. Using simple mixing length arguments, we are able to construct a scaling of the fluid Rossby number R-of = (omega) over tilde /2 Omega(*) similar to (v) over tilde2 Omega R-*(*), which we calibrate based on our 3D ASH simulations. We can use this scaling to map the behavior of differential rotation versus the global parameters of stellar mass and rotation rate. Finally, we isolate a region on this map (R-of greater than or similar to 1.5-2) where we posit that stars with an anti-solar differential rotation may exist in order to encourage observers to hunt for such targets.
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