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Asteroseismology Can Reveal Strong Internal Magnetic Fields in Red Giant Stars

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arxiv 1510.06960 v1 pith:3TGJ7ZBD submitted 2015-10-23 astro-ph.SR

Asteroseismology Can Reveal Strong Internal Magnetic Fields in Red Giant Stars

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Internal stellar magnetic fields are inaccessible to direct observations and little is known about their amplitude, geometry and evolution. We demonstrate that strong magnetic fields in the cores of red giant stars can be identified with asteroseismology. The fields can manifest themselves via depressed dipole stellar oscillation modes, which arises from a magnetic greenhouse effect that scatters and traps oscillation mode energy within the core of the star. The Kepler satellite has observed a few dozen red giants with depressed dipole modes which we interpret as stars with strongly magnetized cores. We find field strengths larger than $\sim\! 10^5 \,{\rm G}$ may produce the observed depression, and in one case we infer a minimum core field strength of $\approx \! \! 10^7 \,{\rm G}$.

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