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How Anti-Solar Rotation Laws can be produced






Leonid Kitchatinov (Inst. Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Irkutsk)

Guenther Ruediger (Astrophysical Institute Potsdam)





There are observational claims of detecting anti-solar differential rotation laws with the stellar equator rotating slower than the poles. We thus discuss the theoretical possibilities for the origin of equatorial deceleration. The standard hydrodynamical models for global circulation in convection zones do always produce solar-like differential rotation with equatorial acceleration. We argue that the antisolar rotation can be produced though if the meridional flow is amplified by any additional driver which is not included in the standard formulation. Both magnetic polar spots or tidal forcing from a close companion are possible amplifiers of the meridional circulation. Theoretical estimations and first results of numerical simulations for polar spots as the reason for the equatorial deceleration are reported. Observers should be motivated to find the peculiarities of the stars with anti-solar rotation laws.





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