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Driving magnetic activity: differential rotation, flow structures, and surface patterns

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2015

Klaus G. Strassmeier*
Affiliation:
Leibniz-Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP), An der Sternwarte 16, D-14482 Potsdam, Germany email: kstrassmeier@aip.de
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Abstract

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The interplay between stellar rotation and turbulent flows is a major ingredient for vertical angular momentum transport in stellar convection zone. Combined with the centrifugal force and the buoyancy force due to pole-equator temperature gradients one can expect a large-scale flow structure that is usually referred to as differential rotation and meridional flows. I review such observations for stars other than the Sun, mostly for stars significantly more active, and ask the question whether such observations can constrain the dynamo process.