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Asteroseismology has become a powerful tool to study the internal rotation of stars, and its study allows to constrain the internal AM transport processes and better understand their physical nature. In this context, we compared the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 Jérôme Bétrisey , Patrick Eggenberger , Gaël Buldgen , Othman Benomar , Michaël Bazot

Tens of thousands of red giant stars in the Kepler data exhibit solar-like oscillations. Their oscillations enable us to study the internal physics from core to surface, such as differential rotation. However, envelope rotation rates have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-21 Gang Li , Sebastien Deheuvels , Jerome Ballot

Core rotation rates of red-giant stars inferred from asteroseismic observations are substantially lower than predicted by current stellar models. This indicates the lack of an efficient angular momentum transport mechanism in radiative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-23 Beatriz Bordadágua , Felix Ahlborn , Quentin Coppée , João P. Marques , Kévin Belkacem , Saskia Hekker

Transport of angular momentum has been a challenging topic within the stellar evolution community, even more since the recent asteroseismic surveys. All published studies on rotation using asteroseismic observations show a discrepancy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 J. W. den Hartogh , P. Eggenberger , R. Hirschi

Context : We still do not know which mechanisms are responsible for the transport of angular momentum inside stars. The recent detection of mixed modes that contain the signature of rotation in the spectra of Kepler subgiants and red giants…

We present theoretical models of the angular momentum evolution of very low mass stars (0.1 - 0.5 M_sun) and solar analogues (0.6 - 1.1 M_sun). We investigate the effect of rotation on the effective temperature and luminosity of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-28 Alison Sills , M. H. Pinsonneault , D. M. Terndrup

Recent asteroseismic advances have allowed for direct measurements of the internal rotation rates of many sub-giant and red giant stars. Unlike the nearly rigidly rotating Sun, these evolved stars contain radiative cores that spin faster…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-30 Jim Fuller , Daniel Lecoanet , Matteo Cantiello , Ben Brown

Asteroseismic measurements of the internal rotation of subgiants and red giants all show the need for invoking a more efficient transport of angular momentum than theoretically predicted. Constraints on the core rotation rate are available…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-23 S. Deheuvels , J. Ballot , P. Eggenberger , F. Spada , A. Noll , J. W. den Hartogh

During the past 10 years the unprecedented quality and frequency resolution of asteroseismic data provided by space photometry has revolutionized the study of red-giant stars providing us with the possibility to probe the interior of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 F. P. Pijpers , M. P. Di Mauro , R. Ventura

Stellar evolution calculations have had great success reproducing the observed atmospheric properties of different classes of stars. Recent detections of g-mode pulsations in evolved He burning stars allow a rare comparison of their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jan-Torge Schindler , Elizabeth M. Green , W. David Arnett

Context: Asteroseismic measurements of the internal rotation of evolved stars indicate that at least one unknown efficient angular momentum (AM) transport mechanism is needed in stellar radiative zones. Aims: We investigate the impact of AM…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-02 P. Eggenberger , F. D. Moyano , J. W. den Hartogh

Motivated by recent interest in the phenomenon of waves transport in massive stars, we examine whether the heat-driven gravity (g) modes excited in slowly-pulsating B (SPB) stars can significantly modify the stars' internal rotation. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-31 R. H. D. Townsend , J. Goldstein , E. G. Zweibel

Context. Asteroseismic studies showed that cores of post main-sequence stars rotate slower than theoretically predicted by stellar models with purely hydrodynamical transport processes. Recent studies on main sequence stars, particularly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-30 F. D. Moyano , P. Eggenberger , S. J. A. J. Salmon , J. S. G. Mombarg , S. Ekström

One of the largest uncertainties in stellar structure and evolution theory is the transport of angular momentum in the stellar interiors. Asteroseismology offers a powerful tool for measuring the internal rotation frequencies of pulsating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 May G. Pedersen

Asteroseismology enabled measuring the rotation rate in the deep stellar interiors of stars across several evolutionary phases, advancing the theory of angular momentum transport in single stars from the main sequence to the white dwarf…

The observations of global stellar oscillations of post main-sequence stars by space-based photometry missions allowed to directly determine their internal rotation. These constraints have pointed towards the existence of angular momentum…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-27 L. Fellay , G. Buldgen , P. Eggenberger , S. Khan , S. J. A. J. Salmon , A. Miglio , J. Montalbán

A major uncertainty in the theory of stellar evolution is the angular momentum distribution inside stars and its change during stellar life. We compose a sample of 67 stars in the core-hydrogen burning phase with a $\log\,g$ value from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-27 C. Aerts , T. Van Reeth , A. Tkachenko

Rotation plays a key role in stellar structure and its evolution. Through transport processes which induce rotational mixing of chemical species and the redistribution of angular momentum, internal stellar rotation influences the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 P. G. Beck , J. De Ridder , C. Aerts , T. Kallinger , S. Hekker , R. A. Garcia , B. Mosser , G. R. Davies

To explain the origin of Herbig Ae/Be stars activity, it has been recently proposed that strong mass-losses trigger rotational instabilities in the envelope of fast rotating stars. The kinetic energy transferred to turbulent motions would…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Lignieres , C. Catala , A. Mangeney

Context: Recent asteroseismic observations have led to the determination of rotational frequency splittings for l=1 mixed modes in red giants. Aims: We investigate how these observed splittings can constrain the modelling of the physical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 P. Eggenberger , J. Montalbán , A. Miglio