Magnetohydrostatic modelling of stellar coronae

We introduce to the stellar physics community a method of modelling stellar coronae that can be considered to be an extension of the potential field. In this approach, the magnetic field is coupled to the background atmosphere. The model is magnetohydrostatic and is a balance between the Lorentz force, the pressure gradient and gravity. Analytical solutions are possible and we consider a particular class of equilibria in this paper. The model contains two free parameters and the effects of these on both the geometry and topology of the coronal magnetic field are investigated. A demonstration of the approach is given using a magnetogram derived from Zeeman–Doppler imaging of the 0.75 M⊙ M-dwarf star GJ 182.

Citation

MacTaggart , D , Gregory , S , Neukirch , T & Donati , J-F 2016 , ' Magnetohydrostatic modelling of stellar coronae ' , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , vol. 456 , no. 1 , pp. 767-774 . https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2714

Publication

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Status

Peer reviewed

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2714

ISSN

0035-8711

Type

Journal article

Rights

© 2016, Publisher / the Author(s). This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at mnras.oxfordjournals.org / https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2714

Collections

University of St Andrews Research

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10023/8067