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Anomalously fast core and envelope rotation in red giants

Anomalously fast core and envelope rotation in red giants

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英文摘要

Red giants undergo dramatic and complex structural transformations as they evolve. Angular momentum is transported between the core and envelope during this epoch, a poorly understood process. Here, we infer envelope and core rotation rates from Kepler observations of $\sim$1517 red giants. While many measurements are consistent with the existing studies, our investigation reveals systematic changes in the envelope-to-core rotation ratio and we report the discovery of anomalies such as clump stars with rapidly rotating cores, and red giants with envelopes rotating faster than their cores. We propose binary interactions as a possible mechanism by which some of these cores and envelopes are spun up. These results pose challenges to current theoretical expectations and can have major implications for compact remnants born from stellar cores.

Siddharth Dhanpal、Othman Benomar、Shravan Hanasoge、Jim Fuller

天文学

Siddharth Dhanpal,Othman Benomar,Shravan Hanasoge,Jim Fuller.Anomalously fast core and envelope rotation in red giants[EB/OL].(2025-06-06)[2025-07-16].https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06415.点此复制

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