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Understanding the Spins of Young Stars
Sean Matt ; Ralph E. Pudritz ;
Date 23 Jan 2007
AbstractWe review the theoretical efforts to understand why pre-main-sequence stars spin much more slowly than expected. The first idea put forward was that massive stellar winds may remove substantial angular momentum. Since then, it has become clear that the magnetic interaction between the stars and their accretion disks explains many of the observed emission properties. The disk locking scenario, which assumes the magnetic star-disk interaction also solves the stellar spin problem, has received the most attention in the literature to date. However, recent considerations suggest that the torques in the star-disk interaction are insufficient for disk locking to explain the slow rotators. This prompts us to revisit stellar winds, and we conclude that stellar winds, working in conjunction with magnetospheric accretion, are a promising candidate for solving the angular momentum problem. We suggest future directions for both observations and theory, to help shed light on this issue.
Source arXiv, astro-ph/0701648
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