Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-10-29
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
3 pages, talk given at the 5th Potsdam Thinkshop, accepted by AN
Scientific paper
10.1002/asna.200710871
The study of rotation and activity in low-mass stars or brown dwarfs of spectral classes M and L has seen enormous progress during the last years. I summarize the results from different works that measured activity, rotation, and sometimes magnetic fields. The generation of magnetic activity seems to be unchanged at the threshold to completely convective stars, i.e. no change in the efficiency of the magnetic dynamos is observed. On the other hand, a sudden change in the strength of rotational braking appears at the threshold mass to full convection, and strong evidence exists for rotational braking weakening with lower mass. A probable explanation is that the field topology changes from dipolar to small scale structure as the objects become fully convective.
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