Conveners
W-MEDAL2 CAP Medal Talk - Gilles Fontaine, U. de Montréal (Achievement Medal Recipient / Récipiendaire de la médaille pour contributions exceptionnelles)
- Adam Sarty (Saint Mary's University)
Prof.
Gilles Fontaine
(Université de Montréal)
15/06/2016, 11:30
Herzberg Public, Plenary, and Medal Talks / Conférenciers des sessions Herzberg, plénières et médaillés (CAP-ACP)
Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité
Have stars that end up as isolated white dwarfs lost their initial angular momentum as suggested by the relatively long rotation periods measured at their surfaces through spectroscopy? Could it be instead that a large fraction of that angular momentum is bound in a fast rotating core, hidden from direct observations, as proposed by some theories favouring a weak rotational coupling between...
