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Internal gravity waves (hereafter IGWs) are one of the mechanisms that can play a key role to redistribute efficiently angular momentum in stars along their evolution. The study of IGWs is thus of major importance since space-based…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-12 Stéphane Mathis

We present 3D full star simulations, reaching up to 90% of the total stellar radius, for three $7M_\odot$ stars of different ages (ZAMS, midMS and TAMS). A comparison with several theoretical prescriptions shows the generation spectra for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-26 R. Vanon , P. V. F. Edelmann , R. P. Ratnasingam , A. Varghese , T. M. Rogers

Stars between two and three solar masses rotate rapidly on the main sequence, and the detection of slow core and surface rotation in the core-helium burning phase for these stars places strong constraints on their angular momentum transport…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Jamie Tayar , Paul G. Beck , Marc H. Pinsonneault , Rafael A. García , Savita Mathur

Some contracting or expanding stars are thought to host a large-scale magnetic field in their radiative interior. By interacting with the contraction-induced flows, such fields may significantly alter the rotational history of the star.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 B. Gouhier , L. Jouve , F. Lignières

The nature of angular momentum transport in the boundary layers of accretion disks has been one of the central and long-standing issues of accretion disk theory. In this work we demonstrate that acoustic waves excited by supersonic shear in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Mikhail A. Belyaev , Roman R. Rafikov , James M. Stone

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

Seismic observations by the space-borne mission \emph{Kepler} have shown that the core of red giant stars slows down while evolving, requiring an efficient physical mechanism to extract angular momentum from the inner layers. Current…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 K. Belkacem , J. P. Marques , M. J. Goupil , T. Sonoi , R. M. Ouazzani , M. A. Dupret , S. Mathis , B. Mosser , M. Grosjean

Core convection and dynamo activity deep within rotating A-type stars of 2 solar masses are studied with 3--D nonlinear simulations. Our modeling considers the inner 30% by radius of such stars, thus capturing within a spherical domain the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Allan Sacha Brun , Matthew K. Browning , Juri Toomre

We estimate the amount of angular momentum transferred by the low-frequency oscillations detected in the rapidly rotating hot Be star HD 51452. Here, we assume that the oscillations detected are stochastically excited by convective motions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Umin Lee , Coralie Neiner , Stéphane Mathis

Angular momentum transport owing to hydrodynamic turbulent convection is studied using local three dimensional numerical simulations employing the shearing box approximation. We determine the turbulent viscosity from non-rotating runs over…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-07 Petri J. Käpylä , Axel Brandenburg , Maarit J. Korpi , Jan E. Snellman , Ramesh Narayan

Thanks to asteroseismology, constraints on the core rotation rate are available for hundreds of low- and intermediate-mass stars in evolved phases. Current physical processes tested in stellar evolution models cannot reproduce the evolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 F. D. Moyano , P. Eggenberger , G. Meynet , C. Gehan , B. Mosser , G. Buldgen , S. J. A. J. Salmon

The main instabilities induced by rotation in stellar interiors are described. We derive from first principles the general equation describing the transport of the angular momentum. The case of the transport of the chemical species is also…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Georges Meynet , Andre Maeder

We review the behavior of the oscillating shear layer produced by gravity waves below the surface convection zone of the Sun. We show that, under asymmetric filtering produced by this layer, gravity waves of low spherical order, which are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Suzanne Talon , Pawan Kumar , Jean-Paul Zahn

Intermediate-mass main sequence stars have large radiative envelopes overlying convective cores. This configuration allows internal gravity waves (IGWs) generated at the convective-radiative interface to propagate towards the stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 R. P. Ratnasingam , P. V. F. Edelmann , T. M. Rogers

Gravito-inertial waves are excited at the interface of convective and radiative regions and by the Reynolds stresses in the bulk of the convection zones of rotating stars and planets. Such waves have notable asteroseismic signatures in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-18 K. C. Augustson , S. Mathis , A. Astoul

Core rotation rates of red-giant stars inferred from asteroseismic observations are substantially lower than predicted by current stellar models. This indicates the lack of an efficient angular momentum transport mechanism in radiative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-23 Beatriz Bordadágua , Felix Ahlborn , Quentin Coppée , João P. Marques , Kévin Belkacem , Saskia Hekker

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

Asteroseismology of 1.0-2.0 Msun red giants by the Kepler satellite has enabled the first definitive measurements of interior rotation in both first ascent red giant branch (RGB) stars and those on the Helium burning clump. The inferred…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-26 Matteo Cantiello , Christopher Mankovich , Lars Bildsten , Joergen Christensen-Dalsgaard , Bill Paxton

(Abridged) We present a detailed analysis of the main physical processes responsible for the transport of angular momentum and chemical species in the radiative regions of rotating stars. We focus on cases where meridional circulation and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Decressin , S. Mathis , A. Palacios , L. Siess , S. Talon , C. Charbonnel , J. -P. Zahn

Context. The frequencies, lifetimes, and eigenfunctions of solar acoustic waves are affected by turbulent convection, which is random in space and in time. Since the correlation time of solar granulation and the periods of acoustic waves…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 P. -L. Poulier , D. Fournier , L. Gizon , T. L. Duvall