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We examine the generation of gravity waves by the surface convection zone of low-mass main sequence stars with solar metallicity. It is found that the total momentum luminosity in waves rises with stellar mass, up to the quasi-disappearance…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-19 Suzanne Talon , Corinne Charbonnel

Transport of angular momentum is a long-standing problem in stellar physics which recently became more acute thanks to the observations of the space-borne mission \emph{Kepler}. Indeed, the need for an efficient mechanism able to explain…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-28 Kevin Belkacem

The evolution of rotating stars with zero-age main sequence (ZAMS) masses in the range 8 to 25 M_sun is followed through all stages of stable evolution. The initial angular momentum is chosen such that the star's equatorial rotational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Heger , N. Langer , S. E. Woosley

Internal gravity waves propagate in stellar radiative zones and transport angular momentum throughout the evolution of stars, shaping the internal rotation pro le of these regions. We use the analytical study of Andre\'e et al. (2018) to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Q. André , S. Mathis , L. Amard

To date, asteroseismology has provided core to surface differential rotation measurements in eight main-sequence stars. These stars, ranging in mass from $\sim$1.5-9$M_\odot$, show rotation profiles ranging from uniform to counter-rotation.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-23 T. M. Rogers

In order to explain the variance of the solar rotation law during the activity minima and maxima, the angular momentum transport by rotating magnetoconvection is simulated in a convective box penetrated by an inclined azimuthal magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-09 Günther Rüdiger , Manfred Küker

The aim of this work is to investigate rotation profile of solar-like stars with magnetic fields. A diffusion coefficient of magnetic angular momentum transport is deduced. Rotating stellar models with different mass are computed under the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-23 Wuming Yang , Shaolan Bi

In this paper, we develop a formalism in order to incorporate the contribution of internal gravity waves to the transport of angular momentum and chemicals over long time-scales in stars. We show that the development of a double peaked…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Talon , C. Charbonnel

Semi-analytic models of self-gravitating discs often approximate the angular momentum transport generated by the gravitational instability using the phenomenology of viscosity. This allows the employment of the standard viscous evolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Duncan Forgan , Ken Rice , Peter Cossins , Giuseppe Lodato

Rotation and magnetic fields in the cores of evolved massive stars in their final phase are thought to play an important role in the subsequent supernova explosion and the formation of a compact object, especially in hyperenergetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-30 Ryota Shimada , Lucy O. McNeill , Vishnu Varma , Keiichi Maeda , Takaaki Yokoyama , Bernhard Müller

This study focuses on stars with masses above the Kraft break in the \textit{Kepler} field. Their rotational angular momenta are essentially the same as those at the zero-age main sequence. The angular momentum dissipation experienced by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-22 Yu-Fu Shen , Yan Xu , Yi-Bo Wang , Xiu-Lin Huang , Xing-Xing Hu , Qi Yuan

The differential rotation of the sun, as deduced from helioseismology, exhibits a prominent radial shear layer near the top of the convection zone wherein negative radial gradients of angular velocity are evident in the low- and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. L. DeRosa , P. A. Gilman , J. Toomre

The rich harvest of seismic observations over the past decade provides evidence of angular momentum redistribution in stellar interiors that is not reproduced by current evolution codes. In this context, transport by internal gravity waves…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-30 C. Pinçon , K. Belkacem , M. J. Goupil

We calculate the angular momentum transport by gravito-inertial-Alfv\'en waves and show that, so long as prograde and retrograde gravity waves are excited to roughly the same amplitude, the sign of angular momentum deposit in the radiative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Pawan Kumar , Suzanne Talon , Jean-Paul Zahn

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

Astronomical observation of stellar rotation suggests that at least the surface layers of the Sun have lost a substantial amount of the angular momentum that they possessed at the beginning of the main-sequence phase of evolution; and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. O. Gough

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 study the impact of internal gravity waves (IGW), meridional circulation, shear turbulence, and stellar contraction on the internal rotation profile and surface velocity evolution of solar metallicity low-mass pre-main sequence stars. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 C. Charbonnel , T. Decressin , L. Amard , A. Palacios , S. Talon

The internal rotational dynamics of massive stars are poorly understood. If angular momentum (AM) transport between the core and the envelope is inefficient, the large core AM upon core-collapse will produce rapidly rotating neutron stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 Linhao Ma , Jim Fuller

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