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As the article describes, most star's magnetic field is rather steak. For example, the sun's magnetic field is only double the strength of Earth's. We have defi
by samus 3y ago
As the article describes, most star's magnetic field is rather steak. For example, the sun's magnetic field is only double the strength of Earth's. We have definitely built much stronger ones.
While it is not unusual for stellar objects to be magnetic, these are usually neutron stars. It is interesting to find something like this.
- V1ndaar 3y agoJust as an interesting bit: Inside of the Sun there are regions with significantly stronger fields. In particular the solar tachochline, a region at around 70% of the Sun's radius has fields of up to sometimes assumed 10 T. It's the region where the interior goes over to the convective zone. Due to differential rotation strong fields are produced. I'm a bit doubtful of the 10 T number, having looked into literature about solar models ~5 years ago. More likely seems maybe 1-3 T, but maybe things are more clear now and I'm not an expert on solar magnetohydrodynamics (the strength there was just important for my work back then; but hey, if someone reads this who _is_ an expert, I'm still interested in details there haha).