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In previous works of this series, we have shown that late B- and early A-type stars have genuine bimodal distributions of rotational velocities and that late A-type stars lack slow rotators. The distributions of the surface angular velocity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 J. Zorec , F. Royer

Gyrochronology is a technique for constraining stellar ages using rotation periods, which change over a star's main sequence lifetime due to magnetic braking. This technique shows promise for main sequence FGKM stars, where other methods…

Gyrochronology, a valuable tool for determining ages of low-mass stars where other techniques fail, relies on accurate calibration. We present a sample of 185 wide ($>$$100$ au) white dwarf + main sequence (WD + MS) binaries. Total ages of…

We present the results of a 5 month photometric time-series survey for stellar rotation over a 40'x40' field on the 150 Myr open cluster M35. We report rotation periods for 441 stars and determine their cluster membership and binarity based…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Søren Meibom , Robert D. Mathieu , Keivan G. Stassun

Gyrochronology enables the derivation of ages of late-type main sequence stars based on their rotation periods and a mass proxy, such as color. It has been explored in open clusters, but a connection to field stars has yet to be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-21 David Gruner , Sydney A. Barnes , Kenneth A. Janes

The spin evolution of stars in close binary systems can be strongly affected by tides. We investigate the rotational synchronisation of the stellar components for 69 SB1 systems and 14 SB2 B-type systems in the 30 Doradus region of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-14 D. J. Lennon , P. L. Dufton , J. I. Villaseñor , N. Langer , C. J. Evans , H. Sana , W. D. Taylor

Previous studies suggest that tidal interactions may be responsible for discrepancies between the ages of exoplanet host stars estimated using stellar models (isochronal ages) and age estimates based on the stars' rotation periods…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 P. F. L. Maxted , A. M. Serenelli , J. Southworth

There is a large change in surface rotation rates of sun-like stars on the pre-main sequence and early main sequence. Since these stars have dynamo driven magnetic fields, this implies a strong evolution of their magnetic properties over…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 C. P. Folsom , J. Bouvier , P. Petit , A. Lèbre , L. Amard , A. Palacios , J. Morin , J. -F. Donati , A. A. Vidotto

Stellar magnetic activity decays over the main-sequence life of cool stars due to the stellar spin-down driven by magnetic braking. The evolution of chromospheric emission is well-studied for younger stars, but difficulties in determining…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 R S Booth , K. Poppenhaeger , C. A. Watson , V. Silva Aguirre , D. Stello , H. Bruntt

Understanding differential rotation of Sun-like stars is of great importance for insight into the angular momentum transport in these stars. One means of gaining such information is that of asteroseismology. By a forward modeling approach…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-22 Mikkel N. Lund , Mark S. Miesch , Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard

It is still unclear how common the Sun is when compared to other similar stars in regards to some of its physical properties, such as rotation. Considering that gyrochronology relations are widely used today to estimate ages of stars in the…

We present recent progress on quantitative estimation of stellar ages using ind icators such as theoretical evolutionary tracks, rotation, rotation-driven chrom ospheric and coronal activity, and lithium depletion. Our focus is on roughly…

Detailed modelling of stellar oscillations is able to give precise estimates for stellar ages, but the inferred results typically depend on the adopted model parameters used for the age inference. High-quality asteroseismic data with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-02 Tanda Li , Timothy R. Bedding , Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard , Dennis Stello , Yaguang Li , Matthew A. Keen

Asteroseismology, as a tool to use the indirect information contained in stellar oscillations to probe the stellar interiors, is an active field of research presently. Stellar age, as a fundamental property of star apart from its mass, is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. K. Tang , S. L. Bi , N. Gai

Oxygen and carbon are important elements in stellar populations. Their behavior refers to the formation history of the stellar populations. C and O abundances would also obviously influence stellar opacities and the overall metal abundance…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 Z. S. Ge , S. L. Bi , Y. Q. Chen , T. D. Li , J. K. Zhao , K. Liu , Fergusion J. W. , Y. Q. Wu

We determine which are the mechanisms accelerating the surface of single stars during the Main Sequence evolution. We have computed 112 stellar models of four different initial masses between 3 and 60 M_sun, at four different metallicities…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 S. Ekström , G. Meynet , A. Maeder , F. Barblan

We compare the current effects of rotation in stellar evolution to those of the magnetic field created by the Tayler instability. In stellar regions, where magnetic field can be generated by the dynamo due to differential rotation (Spruit…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Andre Maeder , Georges Meynet

Stellar rotation periods are valuable both for constraining models of angular momentum loss and for under- standing how magnetic features impact inferences of exoplanet parameters. Building on our previous work in the northern hemisphere,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 Elisabeth R. Newton , Nicholas Mondrik , Jonathan Irwin , Jennifer G. Winters , David Charbonneau

When they first appear in the HR diagram, young stars rotate at a mere 10\% of their break-up velocity. They must have lost most of the angular momentum initially contained in the parental cloud, the so-called angular momentum problem. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 J. Bouvier , D. Cébron

Context. We need to understand the spin evolution of massive stars to compute their internal rotationally induced mixing processes, isolate effects of close binary evolution, and predict the rotation rates of white dwarfs, neutron stars and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-22 K. Nathaniel , N. Langer , S. Simón-Díaz , G. Holgado , A. de Burgos , B. Hastings