Angular Momentum Transport in Stellar Interiors

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Angular Momentum Transport in Stellar Interiors
المؤلفون: Aerts, Conny, Mathis, Stephane, Rogers, Tamara
المصدر: Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 57:35-78 (2019)
سنة النشر: 2018
المجموعة: Astrophysics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
الوصف: Stars lose a significant amount of angular momentum between birth and death, implying that efficient processes transporting it from the core to the surface are active. Space asteroseismology delivered the interior rotation rates of more than a thousand low- and intermediate-mass stars, revealing that: 1) single stars rotate nearly uniformly during the core hydrogen and core helium burning phases; 2) stellar cores spin up to a factor 10 faster than the envelope during the red giant phase; 3) the angular momentum of the helium-burning core of stars is in agreement with the angular momentum of white dwarfs. Observations reveal a strong decrease of core angular momentum when stars have a convective core. Current theory of angular momentum transport fails to explain this. We propose improving the theory with a data-driven approach, whereby angular momentum prescriptions derived from multi-dimensional (magneto)hydrodynamical simulations and theoretical considerations are continously tested against modern observations. The TESS and PLATO space missions have the potential to derive the interior rotation of large samples of stars, including high-mass and metal-poor stars in binaries and clusters. This will provide the powerful observational constraints needed to improve theory and simulations.
Comment: Manuscript submitted to Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics for Volume 57. This is the authors' submitted version. Revisions and the final version will only become available from https://www.annualreviews.org/journal/astro
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-astro-091918-104359
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07779
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1809.07779
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
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DOI:10.1146/annurev-astro-091918-104359