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EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 101, 2015
The Space Photometry Revolution – CoRoT Symposium 3, Kepler KASC-7 Joint Meeting
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Article Number | 01007 | |
Number of page(s) | 4 | |
Section | Session 1 - Probing stellar structure and evolution with asteroseismology | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201510101007 | |
Published online | 23 September 2015 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201510101007
Asteroseismic measurement of surface-to-core rotation in a main-sequence star*
1 Jeremiah Horrocks Institute of Astrophysics, University of Central Lancashire, Preston PR1 2HE, UK
2 Astronomical Institute, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8578, Japan
3 Department of Astronomy, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
4 Sydney Institute for Astronomy, School of Physics, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
5 National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan
a e-mail: kurtzdw@gmail.com
Published online: 23 September 2015
We have discovered rotationally split core g-mode triplets and surface p-mode triplets and quintuplets in a terminal age main-sequence A star, KIC 11145123, that shows both δ Sct p-mode pulsations and γ Dor g-mode pulsations. This gives the first robust determination of the rotation of the deep core and surface of a main-sequence star, essentially model-independently. We find its rotation to be nearly uniform with a period near 100 d, but we show with high confidence that the surface rotates slightly faster than the core. A strong angular momentum transfer mechanism must be operating to produce the nearly rigid rotation, and a mechanism other than viscosity must be operating to produce a more rapidly rotating surface than core. Our asteroseismic result, along with previous asteroseismic constraints on internal rotation in some B stars, and measurements of internal rotation in some subgiant, giant and white dwarf stars, has made angular momentum transport in stars throughout their lifetimes an observational science.
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