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Observational Constraints on Dynamos in Cool Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

C.J. Schrijver
C.J. Schrijver*
Affiliation:
Astronomical Institute Utrecht, P.O. Box 80000, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Abstract

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Non-radiatively heated outer atmospheres are common among stars on the cool side of the HR diagram. These atmospheres resemble that of the Sun in which the bulk of the heating is associated with magnetic fields. Consequently it is assumed that other cool stars also generate and maintain an internal magnetic field through a dynamo action. This field gives rise to a wide spectrum of phenomena in the stellar atmosphere. The dynamo process that sustains the field thrives on the interaction of rotation and turbulent convection. In this review I formulate a set of propositions outlining our present knowledge of this interaction as distilled from stellar observations. In doing so, I outline the effects of stellar evolution on rotation rate, discuss some of the proposed “dividing lines” in the HR-diagram, and comment on the possible role of the convective turnover time in dynamo efficiency and on dynamo activity for extremely slowly and rapidly rotating stars.

Type
VII. Activity, a break of spherical symmetry
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 137: Inside the Stars , 1993 , pp. 591 - 604
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1993

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