• Title of article

    Rotational mixing and Lithium depletion

  • Author/Authors

    M. H. Pinsonneault، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2009
  • Pages
    6
  • From page
    375
  • To page
    380
  • Abstract
    I review basic observational features in Population I stars which strongly implicate rotation as a mixing agent; these include dispersion at fixed temperature in coeval populations and main sequence lithium depletion for a range of masses at a rate which decays with time. New developments related to the possible suppression of mixing at late ages, close binary mergers and their lithium signature, and an alternate origin for dispersion in young cool stars tied to radius anomalies observed in active young stars are discussed. I highlight uncertainties in models of Population II lithium depletion and dispersion related to the treatment of angular momentum loss. Finally, the origins of rotation are tied to conditions in the pre-main sequence, and there is thus some evidence that environment and planet formation could impact stellar rotational properties. This may be related to recent observational evidence for cluster to cluster variations in lithium depletion and a connection between the presence of planets and stellar lithium depletion.
  • Keywords
    Hydrodynamics , Rotation , stars: abundances , SPOTS
  • Journal title
    Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
  • Serial Year
    2009
  • Journal title
    Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
  • Record number

    675152