Angular momentum transport in stars

Nicholas Rui, TAPIR / Caltech

Observations from asteroseismology suggest that stellar cores rotate more slowly than predicted by standard physics. This implies an additional mechanism of angular momentum transport, still highly uncertain. I summarize a few key works on the problem, namely Zahn, et al. (1997), on transport by gravity waves, and Fuller, et al. (2019), on the modified Tayler–Spruit instability.

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