The Rotation of Sun and Stars

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rozelot, Jean-Pierre. (Editor), Neiner, Coralie. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 765
• Subjects: Physics.; Physical geography.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87831-5

The Sun and stars rotate in different ways and at different rates of velocity, and knowledge of how they rotate is important in understanding the formation and evolution of stars and their structure. The wide variety of stars offers an equally wide variety of rotation rates and rotational evolution....

Table of Contents:

• The Sun: a Slowly Rotating Star
• What's Coming: Issues Raised From Observation of the Shape of the Sun
• Effects of Rotation on Stellar P-Mode Frequencies
• Approaching the Low-Frequency Spectrum of Rotating Stars
• The Rotation of the Solar Core
• Physics of Rotation in Stellar Models
• Long Baseline Interferometry of Rotating Stars Across the HR Diagram: Flattening, Gravity Darkening, Differential Rotation
• Is the Critical Rotation of Be Stars Really Critical for the Be Phenomena?- On the Rotation of A-type Stars
• The Solar Magnetic Field: Surface and Upper Layers, Network and Internetwork Field.