Pith. sign in

REVIEW 5 cited by

Differential rotation and magnetic fields in stellar interiors

Not yet reviewed by Pith; the record is open.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet. Machine review is queued; the pith claim, tier, and objections will appear here once it completes.

SPECIMEN: schema-true, not a live event

T0 review · schema-true

One-sentence machine reading of the paper's core claim.

pith:XXXXXXXX · record.json · timestamp

arxiv astro-ph/9907138 v1 pith:4PEOZWEH submitted 1999-07-12 astro-ph

Differential rotation and magnetic fields in stellar interiors

classification astro-ph
keywords magneticinstabilitiesinstabilityfieldevolutionimportantinitiallypinch-type
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal T4 reserved
0 comments
read the original 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.

discussion (0)

Sign in with ORCID, Apple, or X to comment. Anyone can read and Pith papers without signing in.

Forward citations

Cited by 5 Pith papers

Reviewed papers in the Pith corpus that reference this work. Sorted by Pith novelty score.

  1. A Transport Theory of Turbulent Coronal Heating in General Geometry

    astro-ph.SR 2026-07 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.

  2. Extending asteroseismic magnetometry across the diverse landscape of magnetic structures

    astro-ph.SR 2026-06 unverdicted novelty 7.0

    Extends magnetogravity polarization formalism to arbitrary magnetic field geometries, revealing avoided crossings and mode conversion below a local field threshold.

  3. A grid of fast-rotating, chemically-homogeneous, supernova and/or long-GRB progenitors

    astro-ph.HE 2026-06 unverdicted novelty 6.0

    Presents a grid of 113 fast-rotating, chemically-homogeneous massive star models at Z=0.001 reaching core collapse with high angular momentum for use as supernova and GRB progenitors.

  4. Mass-Ratio Reversal as an Alternative to Hierarchical Mergers for GW241011

    astro-ph.HE 2026-06 unverdicted novelty 5.0

    Mass-ratio reversal in isolated binaries offers a viable formation path for GW241011-like events under specific stellar-evolution and interaction conditions.

  5. Modern tidal interaction models for rapid binary population synthesis: II. Binary black hole formation, mergers, and spins

    astro-ph.HE 2026-06 unverdicted novelty 4.0

    Simulations with a new tidal model in COMPAS predict that merging binary black holes from isolated evolution are strongly biased to low effective spins, with one third below 0.05 and only 3% above 0.5, but the high-sp...