Speaker
Jon Braithwaite
(Argelander Institut für Astronomie, Universität Bonn)
Description
The Tayler instability appears in stars with predominantly toroidal magnetic fields.
It is thought to be particularly relevant in the case of differentially-rotating
radiative zones where the toroidal component of any seed field will be amplified. I
shall present results from numerical simulations where the effects of magnetic
diffusivity, rotation, and a weak poloidal field are investigated. I shall then
discuss the importance of these results in the context of angular momentum transport.
Primary authors
Jon Braithwaite
(Argelander Institut für Astronomie, Universität Bonn)
Juan C. Ibañez-Mejía
(Institut f. Theoret. Astrophysik, Heidelberg)
