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20. Theoretical problems of stellar magnetism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Lyman Spitzer Jr.
Lyman Spitzer Jr.*
Affiliation:
Princeton University Observatory, Princeton, N.J., U.S.A.

Abstract

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Relatively complete summaries of recent theoretical work in the field of stellar magnetism have been given by Cowling[1] and Elsasser[2, 3, 4]. For this reason the present survey does not aim at completeness, but is devoted instead to the following three outstanding problems in the field: (1) the formation of stars in the presence of an interstellar magnetic field; (2) the influence of convection currents on a stellar magnetic field; (3) the nature of magnetic variable stars. Study of these problems illustrates the type of difficulties encountered in theories of stellar magnetism.

Type
Part III: Stellar Magnetism
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 6: Electromagnetic Phenomena in Cosmical Physics , 1958 , pp. 169 - 181
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1958 

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