Seismic evidence for the loss of stellar angular momentum before the white-dwarf stage

Nature

Volumn 461, Issue 7263, 2009, Pages 501-503

  Charpinet, S ^a   Fontaine, G ^b   Brassard, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; ASTROPHYSICS; PARTICLE MOTION; ROTATION; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMOLOGY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; EVOLUTION; MASS; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SOLID; THEORY;

EID: 70349472877     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08307     Document Type: Article

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