%0 Generic %1 jermyn2022atlas %A Jermyn, Adam S. %A Anders, Evan H. %A Lecoanet, Daniel %A Cantiello, Matteo %D 2022 %K atlas convection of stellar %T An Atlas of Convection in Main-Sequence Stars %U http://arxiv.org/abs/2206.00011 %X Convection is ubiquitous in stars and occurs under many different conditions. Here we explore convection in main-sequence stars through two lenses: dimensionless parameters arising from stellar structure and parameters which emerge from the application of mixing length theory. We first define each quantity in terms familiar both to the 1D stellar evolution community and the hydrodynamics community. We then explore the variation of these quantities across different convection zones, different masses, and different stages of main-sequence evolution. We find immense diversity across stellar convection zones. Convection occurs in thin shells, deep envelopes, and nearly-spherical cores; it can be efficient of inefficient, rotationally constrained or not, transsonic or deeply subsonic. This atlas serves as a guide for future theoretical and observational investigations by indicating which regimes of convection are active in a given star, and by describing appropriate model assumptions for numerical simulations.

@misc{jermyn2022atlas, abstract = {Convection is ubiquitous in stars and occurs under many different conditions. Here we explore convection in main-sequence stars through two lenses: dimensionless parameters arising from stellar structure and parameters which emerge from the application of mixing length theory. We first define each quantity in terms familiar both to the 1D stellar evolution community and the hydrodynamics community. We then explore the variation of these quantities across different convection zones, different masses, and different stages of main-sequence evolution. We find immense diversity across stellar convection zones. Convection occurs in thin shells, deep envelopes, and nearly-spherical cores; it can be efficient of inefficient, rotationally constrained or not, transsonic or deeply subsonic. This atlas serves as a guide for future theoretical and observational investigations by indicating which regimes of convection are active in a given star, and by describing appropriate model assumptions for numerical simulations.}, added-at = {2022-06-06T05:54:25.000+0200}, author = {Jermyn, Adam S. and Anders, Evan H. and Lecoanet, Daniel and Cantiello, Matteo}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2e914a3682afd63e59eff95ca7786006e/ericblackman}, description = {An Atlas of Convection in Main-Sequence Stars}, interhash = {b8cf1affcd47e60f32e79ab62fd1862e}, intrahash = {e914a3682afd63e59eff95ca7786006e}, keywords = {atlas convection of stellar}, note = {cite arxiv:2206.00011Comment: 62 pages, 76 figures. All your favorite dimensionless numbers and then some. Submitted to ApJS}, timestamp = {2022-06-06T05:54:25.000+0200}, title = {An Atlas of Convection in Main-Sequence Stars}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2206.00011}, year = 2022 }