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Nonlinear Nonaxisymmetric Dynamos for Active Stars
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
Abstract
Recent observations seem to have detected large scale nonaxisymmetric structures on active giant stars. These structures are plausibly associated with underlying, dynamo generated, nonaxisymmetric magnetic fields. Such developments have motivated the development of a computer code to solve the nonlinear mean field dynamo equation in spherical geometry with no imposed geometrical symmetries. The nonlinearity is a simple α-quenching. The nature of the stable solutions found depends quite sensitively on the assumed spatial distribution of both α-eflect and differential rotation, and also on the degree of supercriticality of the dynamo. Such a dynamo model with stable, purely nonaxisymmetric solutions is described in this paper.
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- Part II Current stellar dynamo theory
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