Angular Momentum Evolution of Young Stars (Nato Science Series C:) by S. Catalano
Angular Momentum Evolution of Young Stars (Nato Science Series C:) by S. Catalano
English | 1991 | ISBN: 9401055874 | 461 Pages | PDF | 37 MB
English | 1991 | ISBN: 9401055874 | 461 Pages | PDF | 37 MB
This book reports the Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "An gular Momentum Evolution of Young Stars" held from 17 to 21 September 1990 at Noto, Italy. The workshop had its immediate origin in a discussion about the availability of stel lar rotation data, that took place in 1987 at Viana do Castelo Portugal during the NATO meeting, Formation and Evolution of Low Mass Stars. We recognized that nearly 20 years had passed since the last meeting on stellar rotation and that significant progress in the observation of rotation rates in low mass stars had been made. During the last 20 years, new efficient instrumentation (CCD and photon counting de tectors and echelle spectrographs) and new analysis techniques (profile Fourier analysis) have allowed us to measure rotational velocities as low as 1-2 km/s and to reach low mass stars in young clusters.