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We investigate the rotation velocity of the first stars by modelling the angular momentum transfer in the primordial accretion disc.Assessing the impact of magnetic braking, we consider the transition in angular momentum transport mode at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-14 Shingo Hirano , Volker Bromm

Rotation period measurements of low-mass stars show that the spin distributions in young clusters do not exhibit the spin-up expected due to contraction, during the phase when a large fraction of stars are still surrounded by accretion…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-24 Amard L. , Matt S. P

We develop new angular momentum evolution models for stars with masses of $0.5$ to $1.6~\rm M_\odot$ and from the pre-main-sequence (\rm PMS) through the end of their main-sequence (\rm MS) lifetime. The parametric models include magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-12 Leila Sadeghi Ardestani , Tristan Guillot , Pierre Morel

The importance of the existence of a radiative core in generating a solar-like magnetic dynamo is still unclear. Analytic models and magnetohydrodynamic simulations of stars suggest the thin layer between a star's radiative core and its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-16 Yuxi Lu , Victor See , Louis Amard , Ruth Angus , Sean P. Matt

This study examines the relationship between magnetic field complexity and mass and angular momentum losses. Observations of open clusters have revealed a bimodal distribution of the rotation periods of solar-like stars that has proven…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Cecilia Garraffo , Jeremy J. Drake , Ofer Cohen

The physical mechanisms that set the initial rotation rates in massive stars are a crucial unknown in current star formation theory. Observations of young, massive stars provide evidence that they form in a similar fashion to their low-mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Anna L. Rosen , Mark R. Krumholz , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Solar-type stars form with a wide range of rotation rates. A wide range persists until a stellar age of 0.6 Gyr, after which solar-type stars exhibit Skumanich spin-down. Rotational evolution models incorporating polytropic stellar winds…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-29 D. Evensberget , A. A. Vidotto

Stellar rotation significantly shapes the evolution of massive stars, yet the interplay of mass and metallicity remains elusive, limiting our capacity to construct accurate stellar evolution models and to better estimate the impact of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-11 Weijia Sun , Cristina Chiappini

We use TESS full-frame imaging data to investigate the angular momentum evolution of young stars in Orion Complex. We confirm recent findings that stars with rotation periods faster than 2 d are overwhelmingly binaries, with typical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Marina Kounkel , Keivan G. Stassun , Lynne A. Hillenbrand , Jesús Hernández , Javier Serna , Jason Lee Curtis

Magnetic activity is a ubiquitous feature of stars with convective outer layers, with implications from stellar evolution to planetary atmospheres. Investigating the mechanisms responsible for the observed stellar activity signals from days…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-17 Emre Işık , Jennifer L. van Saders , Ansgar Reiners , Travis S. Metcalfe

The understanding of the evolution of early-type stars is tightly related to that of the effects of rapid rotation. For massive stars, rapid rotation combines with their strong radiation-driven wind. The aim of this paper is to investigate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-22 D. Gagnier , M. Rieutord , C. Charbonnel , G. Putigny , F. Espinosa Lara

This chapter aims at providing the most complete review of both the emerging concepts and the latest observational results regarding the angular momentum evolution of young low-mass stars and brown dwarfs. In the time since Protostars &…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 J. Bouvier , S. P. Matt , S. Mohanty , A. Scholz , K. G. Stassun , C. Zanni

Angular momentum is a key property regulating star formation and evolution. However, the physics driving the distribution of the stellar rotation rates of early-type main-sequence stars is as yet poorly understood. Using our catalog of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-24 Weijia Sun , Xiao-Wei Duan , Licai Deng , Richard de Grijs

We investigate the rotational evolution of young stars through Monte Carlo simulations. We simulate 280,000 stars, each of which is assigned a mass, a rotational period, and a mass accretion rate. The mass accretion rate depends on mass and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. J. Vasconcelos , J. Bouvier

Magnetic fields play a crucial role at all stages of the formation of low mass stars and planetary systems. In the final stages, in particular, they control the kinematics of in-falling gas from circumstellar discs, and the launching and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 S. G. Gregory , M. Jardine , C. G. Gray , J. -F. Donati

As a massive star evolves through multiple stages of nuclear burning on its way to becoming a supernova, a complex, differentially rotating structure is set up. Angular momentum is transported by a variety of classic instabilities, and also…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Heger , S. E. Woosley , H. C. Spruit

The spin evolution of main sequence stars has long been of interest for basic stellar evolution, stellar aging, stellar activity, and consequent influence on companion planets. Observations of older than solar late-type main-sequence stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-12 Ketevan Kotorashvili , Eric G. Blackman , James E. Owen

While the presence of magnetic fields on low-mass stars is attributed to a dynamo process essentially driven by convective motions, the existence of magnetic fields on intermediate-mass stars has very likely other reasons. Presuming that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-30 Rainer Arlt

Rotation and magnetism are increasingly recognized as important phenomena in stellar evolution. Surface magnetic fields from a few to $20{,}000\,$G have been observed and models have suggested that magnetohydrodynamic transport of angular…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Leo G. Quentin , Christopher A. Tout

We study the four-dimensional relationships between magnetic activity, rotation, mass and age for solar-type stars in the age range 5-25Myr. This is the late-pre-main sequence (l-PMS) evolutionary phase when rapid changes in star's interior…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Konstantin V. Getman , Eric D. Feigelson , Gordon P. Garmire