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As an open cluster orbits the Milky Way, gravitational fields distort it, stripping stars from the core and forming tidal tails. Recent work has identified tidal tails of the Praesepe cluster; we explore rotation periods as a way to confirm…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-13 Jessica McDivitt , Stephanie T. Douglas , Jason Lee Curtis , Mark Popinchalk , Alejandro Núñez

Using data from the HATNet survey for transiting exoplanets we measure photometric rotation periods for 368 Pleiades stars with 0.4 Msun < M < 1.3 Msun. We detect periodic variability for 74% of the cluster members in this mass range that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-07 Joel D. Hartman , Gáspár Á Bakos , Géza Kovács , Robert W. Noyes

We present an analysis of K2 light curves (LCs) for candidate members of the young Upper Sco (USco) association $\sim$8 Myr) and the neighboring Rho Oph embedded cluster ($\sim$1 Myr). We establish $\sim$1300 stars as probable members,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 L. M. Rebull , J. R. Stuaffer , A. M. Cody , L. A. Hillenbrand , T. J. David , M. Pinsonneault

Over the past decades open clusters have been the subject of many studies. Such studies are crucial considering that the universality of the Initial Mass Function is still a subject of current investigations. Praesepe is an interesting open…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 S. Boudreault , N. Lodieu , N. R. Deacon , N. C. Hambly

Studies using asteroseismic ages and rotation rates from star-spot rotation have indicated that standard age-rotation relations may break down roughly half-way through the main sequence lifetime, a phenomenon referred to as weakened…

Stellar rotation is a crucial parameter driving stellar magnetism, activity and mixing of chemical elements. Furthermore, the evolution of stellar rotation is coupled to the evolution of circumstellar disks. Disk-braking mechanisms are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Patrick Weise , Ralf Launhardt , Johny Setiawan , Thomas Henning

Rotation is a directly-observable stellar property, and drives magnetic field generation and activity through a magnetic dynamo. Main sequence stars with masses below approximately 0.35Msun (mid-to-late M dwarfs) are fully-convective, and…

We use TESS full-frame imaging data to investigate the angular momentum evolution of young stars in Orion Complex. We confirm recent findings that stars with rotation periods faster than 2 d are overwhelmingly binaries, with typical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Marina Kounkel , Keivan G. Stassun , Lynne A. Hillenbrand , Jesús Hernández , Javier Serna , Jason Lee Curtis

We present the results of a monitoring campaign aimed at deriving rotation periods for a representative sample of stars in the young (30 Myr) open cluster IC 2602. Rotation periods were derived for 29 of 33 stars monitored. The periods…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sydney A. Barnes , Sabatino Sofia , Charles F. Prosser , John R. Stauffer

The rotational evolution of a young stellar population can give informations about the rotation pattern of more evolved clusters. Combined with rotational period values of thousands of young stars and theoretical propositions about the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-18 Maria Jaqueline Vasconcelos , Jérôme Bouvier , Florian Gallet , Edson A. Luz Filho

We present the results of a photometric survey of rotation rates in the Coma Berenices (Melotte 111) open cluster, using data obtained as part of the SuperWASP exoplanetary transit-search programme. The goal of the Coma survey was to…

We compute the evolution and rotational periods of young stars, using the MESA code, starting from a stellar seed, and take protostellar accretion, stellar winds, and the magnetic star-disk interaction into account. Furthermore, we add a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 L. Gehrig , E. I. Vorobyov

We use high quality K2 light curves for hundreds of stars in the Pleiades to understand better the angular momentum evolution and magnetic dynamos of young, low mass stars. The K2 light curves provide not only rotational periods but also…

We present 75 new stellar rotation periods in the young cluster IC348. Stars estimated to be less massive than 0.25 Mo show a unimodal distribution with a peak at P ~1-2 d) and a tail of slower rotators, while stars estimated to be more…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Lucas Cieza , Nairn Baliber

Rotational studies at a variety of ages and masses are important for constraining the angular momentum evolution of young stellar objects (YSO). Of particular interest are the very low mass (VLM) stars and brown dwarfs (BDs), because of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Maria Victoria Rodriguez-Ledesma , Reinhard Mundt , Jochen Eislöffel

The rotation rates of main-sequence stars slow over time as they gradually lose angular momentum to their magnetized stellar winds. The rate of angular momentum loss depends on the strength and morphology of the magnetic field, the…

We present results from a 5-month photometric survey for stellar rotation periods combined with a 4-year radial-velocity survey for membership and binarity in the 220Myr open cluster M34. We report surface rotation periods for 120 stars, 83…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Søren Meibom , Robert D. Mathieu , Keivan G. Stassun , Paul Liebesny , Steven H. Saar

Two magnetic braking models are implemented in MESA for use in the MIST stellar model grids. Stars less than about 1.3 $M_{\odot}$ are observed to spin down over time through interaction with their magnetized stellar winds (i.e., magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-24 Seth Gossage , Aaron Dotter , Cecilia Garraffo , Jeremy J. Drake , Stephanie Douglas , Charlie Conroy

We present stellar rotation rates derived from Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) light curves for stars in Upper Centaurus-Lupus (UCL; ~136 pc, ~16 Myr) and Lower Centaurus-Crux (LCC; ~115 pc, ~17 Myr). We find spot-modulated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 L. M. Rebull , J. R. Stauffer , L. A. Hillenbrand , A. M. Cody , Ethan Kruse , Brian P. Powell

The observed mass-age-rotation relationship in open clusters shows the progressive development of a slow-rotators sequence. The observed clustering on this sequence suggests that it corresponds to some equilibrium or asymptotic condition…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 Alessandro C. Lanzafame , Federico Spada