Testing angular momentum transport processes with asteroseismology of solar-type main-sequence stars

Abstract

Asteroseismology has become a powerful tool to study the internal rotation of stars, and its study allows to constrain the internal AM transport processes and better understand their physical nature. In this context, we compared the rotation rates predicted by asteroseismology and by starspots measurements for four main-sequence stars from the Kepler LEGACY sample, considering different AM transport prescriptions, and investigated if some of these prescriptions could be ruled out. We decoupled the modelling of the structure and of the rotational profile, respectively obtained by an asteroseismic characterization and by using rotating models including a detailed treatment of the AM transport. We then compared the mean asteroseismic rotation rate with the surface rotation rate from starspots measurements for each of the AM transport prescriptions. In the hotter part of the HRD (M > ~ 1.2Msun), combining asteroseismic constraints from splittings of pressure modes and surface rotation rates does not allow to conclude on the need for an efficient AM transport in addition to the sole transport by meridional circulation and shear instability. Both prescriptions are indeed consistent with the quasi-solid rotation measured by Benomar et al. (2015) and Nielsen et al. (2017). In the colder part of the HRD, the situation is different due to the efficient braking of the stellar surface by magnetised winds. We find a clear disagreement between the rotational properties of models including only hydrodynamic processes and asteroseismic constraints, while models with magnetic fields correctly reproduce the observations, similarly to the solar case. This shows the existence of a mass regime corresponding to main-sequence stars around ~ 6000 - 6200 K for which it is difficult to constrain the AM transport processes, unlike for hotter, Gamma Dor stars or colder, less massive solar analogs.

arXiv commentAccepted for publication as a Letter in Astronomy and Astrophysics, section 1. Letters to the Editor

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