Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2000
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000mnras.319..457c&link_type=abstract
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 319, Issue 2, pp. 457-466.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Stars: Magnetic Fields, Stars: Pre-Main-Sequence, Stars: Rotation
Scientific paper
We analyse the distribution of projected equatorial velocities (vsini) for a magnitude-limited sample of stars in Taurus, in order to assess whether this sample can contain a population of fast rotators (missed in previous photometric monitoring campaigns) similar to those recently discovered in Orion by Stassun et al. We find strong evidence, in line with the results of photometric monitoring campaigns in Taurus, that there is no such population of stars in Taurus that rotate at a large fraction of breakup velocity. We thus demonstrate that the stellar rotation distributions in the two star-forming regions are intrinsically different (with a statistical significance of this discrepancy in excess of 3σ), and discuss possible origins for this difference.
Bouvier Jerome
Clarke Catherine J.
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