Magnetic perturbations to the acoustic modes of toAp stars.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Cunha, Margarida S.; Gough, Douglas
- Source
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 12/21/2000, Vol. 319 Issue 4, p1020. 19p. 7 Graphs.
- Subject
- *MAGNETIC fields
*STARS
*MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC waves
*SPHERICAL harmonics
- Language
- ISSN
- 0035-8711
Examines the effects of a large-scale surface magnetic field on the non-radial acoustic modes of roAp stars. Use of variational principle in determining the shifts in the frequencies; Loss of energy through Alfven waves; Components of spherical harmonics.