The spindown of solar-type stars
Aleks Scholz
10.6084/m9.figshare.95608.v1
https://figshare.com/articles/figure/The_spindown_of_solar-type_stars/95608
<p>Rotation periods of G-type stars as a function of their age, all data from the literature. Blue symbols: G-type field stars from the Mt. Wilson survey, as listed in Barnes (2007), size of the symbol scaled with spectral type (G9 smallest size, G0 largest size). Green symbol: Sun (spectral type G2). Red symbol: Average value for G2 stars in the Hyades (Radick et al. 1987). Overplotted is the empirical 'Skumanich law' (Skumanich 1972) - rotation period proportional to the squareroot of age - scaled to match the solar value. </p>
2012-08-31 22:24:25
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Stellar Astronomy
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