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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 Ω/Ωcrit\Omega/\Omega_{\rm crit}, υ/υcrit\upsilon/\upsilon_{\rm crit} (υ\upsilon 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

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