04-09-2021, 03:46 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-09-2021, 03:46 AM by AstroChara.)
(04-09-2021, 01:07 AM)selden Wrote: Mining some stars might be almost easy due to their extremely high rotational rates
See
https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2114/
and
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.01990
Brown dwarfs’ high surface gravity kind of cancels the benefit, as you can see with their rather low oblateness. In general, bigger stars tend to rotate faster, and a lot of A and B type stars can rotate so fast they’re close to breaking up, which means those are actually good candidates for ‘easy’ starlifting, unlike these brown dwarfs. See Dschubba in OA.