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Detecting axisymmetric magnetic fields using gravity modes in intermediate-mass stars

  • 1. Institute of Astronomy, KU Leuven
  • 2. AIM, CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Université Paris Diderot
  • 3. AIM, CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Université Paris Diderot; LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, PSL University, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Univ. Paris Diderot
  • 4. LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, PSL University, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Univ. Paris Diderot,
  • 5. Institute of Astronomy, KU Leuven; Dept. of Astrophysics, IMAPP, Radboud University Nijmegen; Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg
  • 1. Institute of Astronomy, KU Leuven

Description

Typical MESA and GYRE inlists associated with Van Beeck et al. (2020). MESA version 10398 and GYRE version 5.2.

Context: Angular momentum (AM) transport models of stellar interiors require improvements to explain the strong extraction of AM from stellar cores that is observed with asteroseismology. One of the often invoked mediators of AM transport are internal magnetic fields, even though their properties, observational signatures and influence on stellar evolution are largely unknown.

Aims: We study how a fossil, axisymmetric internal magnetic field affects period spacing patterns of dipolar gravity mode oscillations in main-sequence stars with masses of 1.3, 2.0 and 3.0 \(\mathrm{M}_{\odot}\) . We assess the influence of fundamental stellar parameters on the magnitude of pulsation mode frequency shifts.

Methods: We compute dipolar gravity mode frequency shifts due to a fossil, axisymmetric poloidal-toroidal internal magnetic field for a grid of stellar evolution models, varying stellar fundamental parameters. Rigid rotation is taken into account using the traditional approximation of rotation and the influence of the magnetic field is computed using a perturbative approach.

Results: We find magnetic signatures for dipolar gravity mode oscillations in terminal-age main-sequence stars that are measurable for a near-core field strength larger than 105 G. The predicted signatures differ appreciably from those due to rotation.

Conclusions: Our formalism demonstrates the potential for the future detection and characterization of strong fossil, axisymmetric internal magnetic fields in gravity-mode pulsators near the end of core-hydrogen burning from Kepler photometry, if such fields exist.

The publication date is the date of acceptance.

J. Van Beeck would like to thank researchers M. Michielsen, C. Johnston, and dr. M. G. Pedersen for their valuable input in the MESA and GYRE computations.

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Related works

Is supplement to
Preprint: arXiv:2005.02411 (arXiv)
Journal article: 10.1051/0004-6361/201937363 (DOI)

Funding

SPIRE – Stars: dynamical Processes driving tidal Interactions, Rotation and Evolution 647383
European Commission
MAMSIE – Mixing and Angular Momentum tranSport of massIvE stars 670519
European Commission