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The formation of (very) slowly rotating stars
H. C. Spruit
The slow rotation of some young stars and the extreme rotation periods of some Ap stars have so far defied explanation. The absence of sufficiently efficient braking mechanisms for…
Disruption of a planet spiralling into its host star
Shi Jia, H. C. Spruit
The processes leading deformation and destruction of planets spiraling into the convective envelope of their host stars are described. The planet is compressed by the ram pressure,…
Instability of mass transfer in a planet-star system
Shi Jia, H. C. Spruit
We show that the angular momentum exchange mechanism governing the evolution of mass transferring binary stars does not apply to Roche-lobe filling planets, because most of the ang…
Magnetic fields in non-convective regions of stars
J. Braithwaite, H. C. Spruit
We review the current state of knowledge of magnetic fields inside stars, concentrating on recent developments concerning magnetic fields in stably stratified (zones of) stars, lea…
The growth of helium burning cores
H. C. Spruit
Helium burning in the convective cores of horizontal branch and `red clump' stars appears to involve a process of `ingestion' of unburnt helium into the core, the physics of which…
Convective settling in main sequence stars: Li and Be depletion
R. Andrássy, H. C. Spruit
The process of convective settling is based on the assumption that a small fraction of the low-entropy downflows sink from the photosphere down to the bottom of the star's envelope…