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Distributions of the tachocline version of the absolute values of phase velocity Vt of waves, modulating the stellar activity pattern, estimated with Eq. (5) for the drift rates D1 and D2 from Table A.1, versus the log of the stellar effective temperature T. (a) the negative drifts (rhombi); (b) the positive drifts (squares). The tachocline radius Rt, as well as other stellar parameters, are taken from the models of the main sequence fast rotators in Amard et al. (2019) with maximal surface gravity. The labeled curves depict the theoretic predictions for the different waves in tachoclines of the main sequence stars, according to the dispersion relations from Zaqarashvili (2018) and Gachechiladze et al. (2019), taking the most observable lowest-number spherical harmonics (n = m = 1). The numbers near the theoretical curves for the equatorial magneto-Kelvin waves in panel (a) indicate the assumed thicknesses of the tachocline in units of R*. Blue lines of the Alfvén velocity VA in panels (a) and (b) are calculated for B = 50 kG (solid), B = 100 kG (dashed, upper), and B = 25 kG (dashed, lower). Panel (c) shows the range of the actual values (grey) of the small parameter β = VA/(ΩRt)≪1 used for the solving of the dispersion equations for the considered wave modes in the shallow-fluid approximation.

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