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We explore the question of whether the interior state of massive red supergiant supernova progenitors can be effectively probed with asteroseismology. We have computed a suite of ten models with ZAMS masses from 15 to 25 m_sun in intervals…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 S. Nance , J. M. Sullivan , M. Diaz , J. Craig Wheeler

We compute the evolution and rotational periods of young stars, using the MESA code, starting from a stellar seed, and take protostellar accretion, stellar winds, and the magnetic star-disk interaction into account. Furthermore, we add a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 L. Gehrig , E. I. Vorobyov

Observations of the rotation rates of horizontal branch (HB) stars show puzzling systematics. In particular, cooler HB stars often show rapid rotation (with velocities in excess of 10 km/s), while hotter HB stars typically show much smaller…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Steven D. Kawaler , Shelbi R. Hostler

We present a dense model grid with tailored input chemical composition appropriate for the Large Magellanic Cloud. We use a one-dimensional hydrodynamic stellar evolution code, which accounts for rotation, transport of angular momentum by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-16 K. Köhler , N. Langer , A. de Koter , S. E. de Mink , P. A. Crowther , C. J. Evans , G. Gräfener , H. Sana , D. Sanyal , F. R. N. Schneider , J. S. Vink

All evolved stars with masses M <2 solar masses undergo an initiating off-center helium core flash in their 0.48 solar mass He core as they ascend the red giant branch (RGB). This off-center flash is the first of a few successive helium…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Lars Bildsten , Bill Paxton , Kevin Moore , Phillip J. Macias

The rotation rates in the deep interior and at the surface of 22 main-sequence stars with masses between $1.0$ and $1.6\,{\rm M}_{\odot}$ are constrained by combining asteroseismological analysis with spectroscopic measurements. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 O. Benomar , M. Takata , H. Shibahashi , T. Ceillier , R. A. Garcia

We substantially update the capabilities of the open source software package Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA), and its one-dimensional stellar evolution module, MESA Star. Improvements in MESA Star's ability to model…

Small levels of turbulence can be present in stellar radiative interiors due to, e.g., instability of rotational shear. In this paper we estimate turbulent transport coefficients for stably stratified rotating stellar radiation zones.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-23 L. L. Kitchatinov , A. Brandenburg

We provide a status report on the determination of stellar ages from asteroseismology for stars of various masses and evolutionary stages. The ability to deduce the ages of stars with a relative precision of typically 10 to 20% is a unique…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Conny Aerts

Space missions like CoRoT, Kepler, and TESS have made asteroseismology a powerful probe of stellar interiors. Red giants are key targets thanks to their rich mixed-mode oscillation spectra, which reveal properties of both core and envelope.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-12 L. Panier , G. Buldgen , M. Matteuzzi , R. Scuflaire , M. A. Dupret , A. Noels , A. Miglio

We have performed the first three-dimensional non-linear simulation of the turbulent convective envelope of a rotating 0.8 Msun RGB star using the ASH code. Adopting a global typical rotation rate of a tenth of the solar rate, we have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. Palacios , A. S. Brun

We present a catalog of ~100,000 periodic variable stars in TESS FFI data among members of widely distributed moving groups identified with Gaia in the previous papers in the series. By combining the periods from our catalog attributable to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Marina Kounkel , Keivan G. Stassun , Luke G. Bouma , Kevin Covey , Lynne A. Hillenbrand , Jason Lee Curtis

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

Rotation and mass loss are crucially interlinked properties of massive stars, strongly affecting their evolution and ultimate fate. Massive stars rotating near their breakup limit shed mass centrifugally, creating Be stars with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Xihui Zhao , Jim Fuller

The internal rotation and magnetism of evolved massive stars are considered in response to i) the inward pumping of angular momentum through deep and slowly rotating convective layers; and ii) the winding up of a helical magnetic field in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Yevgeni Kissin , Christopher Thompson

B-type stars are known to rotate at various velocities, including very fast rotators near the critical velocity as the Be stars. In this paper, we provide stellar models covering the mass range between 1.7 to 15 Msun, which includes the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Cyril Georgy , Sylvia Ekström , Anahí Granada , Georges Meynet , Nami Mowlavi , Patrick Eggenberger , André Maeder

When low- and intermediate-mass stars evolve off the main sequence, they expand and cool into the red giant stages of evolution, which include those associated with shell H burning (the red giant branch), core He burning (the red clump),…

The evolutionary scenario of early-type nitrogen-sequence Wolf-Rayet (WNE) stars predicts a slowly rotating subclass that typically forms after the red supergiant (RSG) phase. Their slow rotation rates are attributed to stellar winds that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-25 Jijuan Si , Yan Li , Xue-Feng Li , Zhi Li

A red giant star is an evolved low- or intermediate-mass star that has exhausted its central hydrogen content, leaving a helium core and a hydrogen-burning shell. Oscillations of stars can be observed as periodic dimmings and brightenings…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Gang Li , Sébastien Deheuvels , Jérôme Ballot , François Lignières

If the angular momentum of the molecular cloud core were conserved during the star formation process, a new-born star would rotate much faster than its fission speed. This constitutes the angular momentum problem of new-born stars. In this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kohji Tomisaka