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Differential rotation and magnetic fields in stellar interiors

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abstract

The processes contributing to the evolution of an initially weak magnetic field in a differentially rotating star are reviewed. These include rotational smoothing (akin to convective expulsion) and a list of about 5 instabilities, among them magnetorotational instability, byoyancy instability, and pinch-type instabilities. The important effects of thermal and magnetic diffusion on these instabilities are analyzed in some detail. The first instability to set in is a pinch-type instability. It becomes important in modifying the field configuration before magnetic buoyancy-driven instabilities set in. The evolution of an initially strong field remains a more open question, including the old problem whether dynamically stable magnetic equilibria exist in stars.

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2026 5

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A Transport Theory of Turbulent Coronal Heating in General Geometry

astro-ph.SR · 2026-07-09 · conditional · novelty 8.0

A controlled multiscale RMHD expansion in arbitrary magnetic geometry yields new geometry-driven turbulent heating and cross-field transport channels that can dominate standard reflection in structured coronal regions.

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