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Thermohaline mixing and fossil magnetic fields in red giant stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2008

Corinne Charbonnel  and
Jean-Paul Zahn
Corinne Charbonnel
Affiliation:
Geneva Observatory, University of Geneva, ch. des Maillettes 51, 1290 Versoix, Switzerland email: Corinne.Charbonnel@obs.unige.ch Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes, Université de Toulouse, CNRS UMR 5572, 14 Av. E. Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France
Jean-Paul Zahn
Affiliation:
LUTH, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, Université Paris-Diderot, France email: Jean-Paul.Zahn@obspm.fr
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Abstract

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We discuss the occurence and consequences of thermohaline mixing in RGB stars, as well as the possible inhibition of this process by a fossil magnetic field in Ap star descendants.

Keywords

hydrodynamics - instabilities - stars: abundances- stars: evolution - stars: interiors - stars: rotation
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 4 , Symposium S252: The Art of Modeling Stars in the 21st Century , April 2008 , pp. 245 - 246
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2008

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