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Like the Earth and planets, stars rotate. Understanding how stars rotate is central to modelling their structure, formation and evolution, and how they interact with their environment and companion stars. This authoritative volume, first published in 2000, provides a lucid introduction to stellar rotation and the definitive reference to the subject. It combines theory and observation in a comprehensive survey of how the rotation of stars affects the structure and evolution of the Sun, single stars and close binaries. This book will be of primary interest to graduate students and researchers studying solar and stellar rotation and close binary systems. It will also appeal to those with a more general interest in solar and stellar physics, star formation, binary stars and the hydrodynamics of rotating fluids - including geophysicists, planetary scientists and plasma physicists.

Stars --- Rotation of stars --- Stellar rotation --- Rotational motion --- Rotation. --- Etoiles --- Rotation

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The masses of neutron stars are limited by an instability to gravitational collapse and an instability driven by gravitational waves limits their spin. Their oscillations are relevant to x-ray observations of accreting binaries and to gravitational wave observations of neutron stars formed during the coalescence of double neutron-star systems. This volume includes more than forty years of research to provide graduate students and researchers in astrophysics, gravitational physics and astronomy with the first self-contained treatment of the structure, stability and oscillations of rotating neutron stars. This monograph treats the equations of stellar equilibrium; key approximations, including slow rotation and perturbations of spherical and rotating stars; stability theory and its applications, from convective stability to the r-mode instability; and numerical methods for computing equilibrium configurations and the nonlinear evolution of their oscillations. The presentation of fundamental equations, results and applications is accessible to readers who do not need the detailed derivations.

Neutron stars. --- Stellar oscillations. --- Gravitational waves. --- Stars --- Rotation of stars --- Stellar rotation --- Rotational motion --- Gravitational radiation --- Gravity waves (Astrophysics) --- General relativity (Physics) --- Gravitational fields --- Radiation --- Waves --- Pulsations of stars --- Stellar pulsations --- Oscillations --- Astroseismology --- Pulsating stars --- Compact objects (Astronomy) --- Pulsars --- Rotation. --- Pulsations

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Rotation is ubiquitous at each step of stellar evolution, from star formation to the final stages, and it affects the course of evolution, the timescales and nucleosynthesis. Stellar rotation is also an essential prerequisite for the occurrence of Gamma-Ray Bursts. In this book the author thoroughly examines the basic mechanical and thermal effects of rotation, their influence on mass loss by stellar winds, the effects of differential rotation and its associated instabilities, the relation with magnetic fields and the evolution of the internal and surface rotation. Further, he discusses the numerous observational signatures of rotational effects obtained from spectroscopy and interferometric observations, as well as from chemical abundance determinations, helioseismology and asteroseismology, etc. On an introductory level, this book presents in a didactical way the basic concepts of stellar structure and evolution in "track 1" chapters. The other more specialized chapters form an advanced course on the graduate level and will further serve as a valuable reference work for professional astrophysicists.

Stars. --- Stars --- Astronomy & Astrophysics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Astrophysics --- Evolution --- Rotation --- Rotational motion. --- Rotation. --- Gyrodynamics --- Revolving systems --- Rotating systems --- Spin (Dynamics) --- Rotation of stars --- Stellar rotation --- Physics. --- Observations, Astronomical. --- Astronomy --- Astrophysics. --- Space sciences. --- Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences. --- Astrophysics and Astroparticles. --- Astronomy, Observations and Techniques. --- Observations. --- Dynamics --- Motion --- Rotational motion --- Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics). --- Astronomical physics --- Cosmic physics --- Physics --- Astronomy—Observations. --- Astronomical observations --- Observations, Astronomical --- Science and space --- Space research --- Cosmology --- Science