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Search for Stable Magnetohydrodynamic Equilibria in Barotropic Stars.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

J. P. Mitchell
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica, Facultad de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860 7820436 Macul, Santiago - Chile email: [email protected] Argelander Institut, University of Bonn, Auf dem Huegel 71, 53121 Bonn - Germany
J. Braithwaite
Affiliation:
Argelander Institut, University of Bonn, Auf dem Huegel 71, 53121 Bonn - Germany
N. Langer
Affiliation:
Argelander Institut, University of Bonn, Auf dem Huegel 71, 53121 Bonn - Germany
A. Reisenegger
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica, Facultad de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860 7820436 Macul, Santiago - Chile email: [email protected]
H. Spruit
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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Abstract

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It is now believed that magnetohydrodynamic equilibria can exist in stably stratified stars due to the seminal works of Braithwaite & Spruit (2004) and Braithwaite & Nordlund (2006). What is still not known is whether magnetohydrodynamic equilibria can exist in a barotropic star, in which stable stratification is not present. It has been conjectured by Reisenegger (2009) that there will likely not exist any magnetohydrodynamical equilibria in barotropic stars. We aim to test this claim by presenting preliminary MHD simulations of barotropic stars using the three dimensional stagger code of Nordlund & Galsgaard (1995).

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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2014 

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