Talk:Tachocline

Fossil Field?

There is a line in this about a "fossil field". What does this mean in terms of Solar Phenomenon? Can someone with an understanding of Solar Physics confirm that "fossil fields" are true solar phemomena? Would you please write a brief description? I am less than a novice in this field an the term is a bit confusing, and in this context (wikipedia) it looks like vandalism without further explanation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.110.232.186 (talk) 19:40, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

TBH, I don't know. I am only familiar with the term "fossil field" in terms of paleontology, and despite some background in solar physics I have never heard of it in any other context. The phrase was added with this edit by Rex the first (talk · contribs) who is still an occasional user here. Perhaps if you were to ask for further explanation on that user's talk page, he might eventually get back to you. Astronaut (talk) 17:46, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

A "fossil field" is a magnetic field that has survived from an earlier stage in the Sun's evolution. This is in contrast to a dynamo-generated field, that is permanently destroyed (by turbulent diffusion )and re-generated (by the dynamo mechaism).Turritus (talk) 13:26, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Question about the lead sentence

It currently starts "The tachocline is the transition region of the Sun..." Okay, don't ALL STARS, above a certain mass, have a tachocline? Geo Swan (talk) 21:54, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

You can see from your comment, that "all stars" would be an exaggeration. The properties and fates of stars depends on their masses; to say some stars above a certain mass may have a tachocline may make sense. But what mass would that be? And it would certainly not be all stars then. Then too, there are stellar remnants above the mass threshold without tachoclines, which would also prove confusing to readers. I would say the sentence as is seems good enough, given what we know about stellar magnetism.--Astroceltica (talk) 17:03, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

Don't all main sequence stars of more than 0.3 solar mass have a tachocline?

@Astroceltica:, no, the current sentence is completely inadequate, since the very first sentence incorrectly says only our Sun has a tachocline. Geo Swan (talk) 12:26, 14 March 2019 (UTC) 010140101 he first kills his prey

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