Friday, July 5 - Session 3 - 9:30

Outstanding Issues for Pre-Main Sequence Evolution

Francesco Palla
Observatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Largo E. Fermi, 5 - Firenze, Italy

 

After a brief review of the main results of pulsation studies of young stars, I will discuss some of the major open questions of PMS evolution: the impact of initial conditions from protostellar collapse models; the effect of binarity on the evolution; the problem of lithium depletion in low mass stars. Finally, the prospects for studying pulsations/oscillation in very low-mass stars and brown dwarfs will be presented.

 
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