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Since their formation, stars slow down their rotation rates by the removal of angular momentum from their surfaces, e.g. via stellar winds. Despite the complexity of the processes involved, a traditional model, where the removal of angular…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 Aditi Sood , Eun-jin Kim , Rainer Hollerbach

The surface rotation rates of young solar-type stars vary rapidly with age from the end of the pre-main sequence through the early main sequence. Important changes in the dynamos operating in these stars may result from this evolution,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 C. P. Folsom , P. Petit , J. Bouvier , A. Lèbre , L. Amard , A. Palacios , J. Morin , J. -F. Donati , S. V. Jeffers , S. C. Marsden , A. A. Vidotto

In recent years, ground- and space-based photometric surveys have characterized the rotational evolution of solar-like stars to an unprecedented level of detail. In this work we focus on the slow-rotator sequence, an emergent feature…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 F. Spada , A. C. Lanzafame

The basic mechanisms responsible for producing winds from cool, late-type stars are still largely unknown. We take inspiration from recent progress in understanding solar wind acceleration to develop a physically motivated model of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Steven R. Cranmer , Steven H. Saar

We study the predicted rotational evolution of solar-type stars from the pre-main sequence to the solar age with 1D rotating evolutionary models including physical ingredients. We computed rotating evolution models of solar-type stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-02 Louis Amard , Ana Palacios , Corinne Charbonnel , Florian Gallet , Jérôme Bouvier

Stellar winds from active solar type stars can play a crucial role in removal of stellar angular momentum and erosion of planetary atmospheres. However, major wind properties except for mass loss rates cannot be directly derived from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Vladimir S. Airapetian , Arcadi V. Usmanov

The surface rotation rates of young solar-type stars decrease rapidly with age from the end of the pre-main sequence though the early main sequence. This suggests that there is also an important change in the dynamos operating in these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 C. P. Folsom , P. Petit , J. Bouvier , J. -F. Donati , J. Morin

While magnetic fields have long been considered to be important for the evolution of magnetic non-degenerate stars and compact stars, it has become clear in recent years that actually all of the stars are deeply affected. This is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Koh Takahashi , Norbert Langer

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

Planets orbiting young, solar-type stars are embedded in a more energetic environment than that of the solar neighbourhood. They experience harsher conditions due to enhanced stellar magnetic activity and wind shaping the secular evolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-22 S. Bellotti , T. Lueftinger , S. Boro Saikia , C. P. Folsom , P. Petit , J. Morin , M. Gudel , J. -F. Donati , E. Alecian

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 a model for the rotational evolution of a young, solar mass star interacting with an accretion disk. The model incorporates a description of the angular momentum transfer between the star and disk due to a magnetic connection,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Sean P. Matt , Giovanni Pinzon , Ramiro de la Reza , Thomas P. Greene

Aims. We aim to describe the pre-main sequence and main-sequence evolution of X-ray and extreme-ultaviolet radiation of a solar mass star based on its rotational evolution starting with a realistic range of initial rotation rates. Methods.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Lin Tu , Colin P. Johnstone , Manuel Güdel , Helmut Lammer

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

The understanding of the rotational evolution of early-type stars is deeply related to that of anisotropic mass and angular momentum loss. In this paper, we aim to clarify the rotational evolution of rapidly rotating early-type stars along…

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

We investigate mass losses via stellar winds from sun-like main sequence stars with a wide range of activity levels. We perform forward-type magnetohydrodynamical numerical experiments for Alfven wave-driven stellar winds with a wide range…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Takeru K. Suzuki , Shinsuke Imada , Ryuho Kataoka , Yoshiaki Kato , Takuma Matsumoto , Hiroko Miyahara , Saku Tsuneta

The regulation of angular momentum is one of the key processes for our understanding of stellar evolution. The rotational evolution of solar-mass stars is mainly determined by the magnetic interaction with their circumstellar disk and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jochen Eisloeffel , Alexander Scholz

To better understand the observed distributions of rotation rate and magnetic activity of sun-like and low-mass stars, we derive a physically motivated scaling for the dependence of the stellar-wind torque on Rossby number. The torque also…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-30 Sean P. Matt , A. Sacha Brun , Isabelle Baraffe , Jérôme Bouvier , Gilles Chabrier

The rotational evolution of a young stellar population can give informations about the rotation pattern of more evolved clusters. Combined with rotational period values of thousands of young stars and theoretical propositions about the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-18 Maria Jaqueline Vasconcelos , Jérôme Bouvier , Florian Gallet , Edson A. Luz Filho

Rotation periods are now available for ~500 pre-main sequence and recently arrived main sequence stars of solar-like mass (0.4-1.2 M_sun) in five nearby young clusters: the Orion Nebula Cluster, NGC 2264, alpha Per, IC 2602 and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. Herbst , R. Mundt