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Stability of an Idealised Equilibrium Model of Prominences in Rapidly-Rotating Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Miguel Ferreira*
Affiliation:
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife KY16 9SS, Scotland

Abstract

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We study the stability of an idealised model of stellar prominences. We find that surface fields of a few hundred gauss are required to hold them in a stable equilibrium.

Type
Stellar Filaments
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1998

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