Initial conditions for reaching the critical velocity
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to determine the initial rotational velocities required on the ZAMS for single stars to reach the critical velocity, sometimes called the break-up velocity, during the Main-Sequence (MS) phase. Some useful relations between , ( is the velocity at the equator), the moments of inertia, the angular momenta, the kinetic energy in the rotation and various other basic physical quantities are obtained.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0601339,
title = {Initial conditions for reaching the critical velocity},
author = {Georges Meynet and Sylvia Ekström and André Maeder and Fabio Barblan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0601339},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
12 pages, 9 figures, in Active OB-stars: Laboratories for Stellar and Circumstellar Physics, S. Stefl, S. Owocki, A. Okazaki (eds), ASP Conf. Series