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The rotational evolution of low-mass stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2008

Jonathan Irwin  and
Jerome Bouvier
Jonathan Irwin
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street MS-16, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA email: [email protected]
Jerome Bouvier
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique, Observatoire de Grenoble, BP 53, F-38041 Grenoble Cédex 9, France
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Abstract

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We summarise recent progress in the understanding of the rotational evolution of low-mass stars (here defined as solar mass down to the hydrogen burning limit) both in terms of observations and modelling. Wide-field imaging surveys on moderate-size telescopes can now efficiently derive rotation periods for hundreds to thousands of open cluster members, providing unprecedented sample sizes which are ripe for exploration. We summarise the available measurements, and provide simple phenomenological and model-based interpretations of the presently-available data, while highlighting regions of parameter space where more observations are required, particularly at the lowest masses and ages ≳500 Myr.

Keywords

stars: late-typestars: low-massstars: pre–main-sequencestars: rotation
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 4 , Symposium S258: The Ages of Stars , October 2008 , pp. 363 - 374
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2009

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