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Stellar rotation is a crucial parameter driving stellar magnetism, activity and mixing of chemical elements. Furthermore, the evolution of stellar rotation is coupled to the evolution of circumstellar disks. Disk-braking mechanisms are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Patrick Weise , Ralf Launhardt , Johny Setiawan , Thomas Henning

We present a program designed to obtain age-rotation measurements of solar-type dwarfs to be used in the calibration of gyrochronology relations at ages of several Gyr. This is a region of parameter space crucial for the large-scale study…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Julio Chanamé , Iván Ramírez

We combine stellar surface rotation periods determined from NASA's Kepler mission with spectroscopic temperatures to demonstrate the existence of pileups at the long-period and short-period edges of the temperature-period distribution for…

Pulsars are rotating neutron stars that are observed to be slowing down, implying a loss of their rotational energy. There can be several different physical mechanisms involved in their spin-down process. The properties of fast-rotating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-30 Avishek Basu , Prasanta Char , Rana Nandi

Based on analysis of photometric observations of nearby M type stars obtained with ASAS, 31 periodic variables were detected. The determined periods are assumed to be related to rotation periods of the investigated stars. Among them 10 new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-16 M. Kiraga , K. Stepien

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

We present the results of a detailed kinematic analysis of a significant fraction of the known population of Galactic star clusters aimed at constraining the physical mechanisms driving the onset and evolution of cluster rotation. Our study…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-20 E. Dalessandro , A. Della Croce , E. Vesperini , M. Cadelano , S. Leanza , G. Ettorre , M. Hughes

Solar-type stars, which shed angular momentum via magnetised stellar winds, enter the main sequence with a wide range of rotational periods $P_\text{rot}$. This initially wide range of rotational periods contracts and has mostly vanished by…

Asteroseismology is a powerful tool to probe the structure of stars. Space-borne instruments like CoRoT, Kepler and TESS have observed the oscillations of numerous stars, among which {\delta} Scutis are particularly interesting owing to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-12 Subrata Kumar Panda , Siddharth Dhanpal , Simon J. Murphy , Shravan Hanasoge , Timothy R. Bedding

In this paper we present calculations of period distribution for old accreting isolated neutron stars (INSs). At the age about a few billions years low velocity INSs come to the stage of accretion. At that stage their period evolution is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. B. Popov , M. E. Prokhorov , A. V. Khoperskov , V. M. Lipunov

Recent low-redshift observations have attempted to determine the star formation histories of elliptical galaxies by tracking correlations between the stellar population parameters (age and metallicity) and the structural parameters that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-01-31 L. A. Porter , R. S. Somerville , D. J. Croton , M. D. Covington , G. J. Graves , S. M. Faber , J. R. Primack

Accurate stellar dating provides crucial information about the formation and development of planetary systems. Existing age-dating techniques are limited in terms of both the spectral type and age range they can accurately probe, and many…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Nadja Aldarondo Quiñones , Sydney Jenkins , Andrew Vanderburg , Melinda Soares-Furtado , Michael A. McDonald

Models of rapidly rotating massive stars at low metallicities show significantly different evolution and higher metal yields compared to non-rotating stars. We estimate the spin-down time-scale of rapid rotating non-convective stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Herbert Ho Bun Lau , Adrian T. Potter , Christopher A. Tout

We present revised stellar ages for 23 pre-main sequence K- and M-type stars in the Upper Scorpius star-forming region, derived by using stellar dynamical masses to constrain isochronal ages from five pre-main sequence stellar evolutionary…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-02 Allison P. M. Towner , Joshua A. Eisner , Patrick D. Sheehan , Lynne D. Hillenbrand , Ya-Lin Wu

Stellar surface rotation carries information about stellar parameters---particularly ages---and thus the large rotational datasets extracted from Kepler timeseries represent powerful probes of stellar populations. In this article, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 Jennifer L. van Saders , Marc H. Pinsonneault , Mauro Barbieri

Magnetic cycles have been detected in tens of solar-like stars. The relationship between the cycle properties and global stellar parameters is not fully understood yet. We searched for activity cycles in 90 solar-like stars with ages…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-11 E. Distefano , A. C. Lanzafame , A. Lanza , S. Messina , F. Spada

We present a new age-dating technique that combines gyrochronology with isochrone fitting to infer ages for FGKM main-sequence and subgiant field stars. Gyrochronology and isochrone fitting are each capable of providing relatively precise…

Magnetic braking causes the spin-down of single stars as they evolve on the main sequence. Models of magnetic braking can also explain the evolution of close binary systems, including cataclysmic variables. The well-known period gap in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-24 G. A. J. Hussain

We review the theoretical efforts to understand why pre-main-sequence stars spin much more slowly than expected. The first idea put forward was that massive stellar winds may remove substantial angular momentum. Since then, it has become…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sean Matt , Ralph E. Pudritz

When determining absolute ages of identifiably young stellar populations, results strongly depend on which stars are studied. Cooler (K, M) stars typically yield ages that are systematically younger than warmer (A, F, G) stars by a factor…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 Gregory A. Feiden