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[Abridged] We map the stellar age distribution ($\lesssim 1$ Gyr) across a 6kpc$\,\times\,$6kpc area of the Galactic disc to constrain our Galaxy's recent star-formation history. Our modelling draws on the sample of Zari et al. (2021) that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-21 E. Zari , N. Frankel , H. -W. Rix

The colour-magnitude diagrams of resolved single stellar populations, such as open and globular clusters, have provided the best natural laboratories to test stellar evolution theory. Whilst a variety of techniques have been used to infer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 X. Hernandez , D. Valls-Gabaud

Observational tests of stellar and Galactic chemical evolution call for the joint knowledge of a star's physical parameters, detailed element abundances, and precise age. For cool main-sequence (MS) stars the abundances of many elements can…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 M. Fouesneau , H. -W. Rix , T. von Hippel , D. W. Hogg , H. Tian

M dwarf stars are exciting targets for exoplanet investigations; however, their fundamental stellar properties are difficult to measure. Perhaps the most challenging property to measure is stellar age. Once on the main sequence, M dwarfs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 Mark J. Veyette , Philip S. Muirhead

We investigate the performance of grid-based techniques in estimating the age of stars in detached eclipsing binary systems. We evaluate the precision of the estimates due to the uncertainty in the observational constraints, and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-01 G. Valle , M. Dell'Omodarme , P. G. Prada Moroni , S. Degl'Innocenti

We present the results of age determination for galactic B-type main sequence stars which are components of double-lined eclipsing binaries. Only detached systems are considered. We analyze 38 binary systems that meet such criteria. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 J. Daszyńska-Daszkiewicz , A. Miszuda

We provide a status report on the determination of stellar ages from asteroseismology for stars of various masses and evolutionary stages. The ability to deduce the ages of stars with a relative precision of typically 10 to 20% is a unique…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Conny Aerts

Results of photometric surveys have brought to light the existence of a population of giant planets orbiting their host stars even closer than the hot Jupiters (HJ), with orbital periods below 3 days. The reason why radial velocity surveys…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Melo , N. C. Santos , F. Pont , T. Guillot , G. Israelian , M. Mayor , D. Queloz , S. Udry

We propose a novel method for determining the ages of low-mass, pre-main sequence stellar systems using the apsidal motion of low-mass detached eclipsing binaries. The apsidal motion of a binary system with an eccentric orbit provides…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-22 Gregory A. Feiden , Aaron Dotter

We have investigated a group of stars known to have low chromospheric ages, but high kinematical ages. Isochrone, chemical and lithium ages are estimated for them. The majority of stars in this group show lithium abundances much smaller…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. J. Rocha-Pinto , B. V. Castilho , W. J. Maciel

A major source of uncertainty in the age determination of old ($\sim10$ Gyr) integrated stellar populations is the presence of hot horizontal branch (HB) stars. Here, we describe a simple approach to tackle this problem, and show the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-19 Ivan Cabrera-Ziri , Charlie Conroy

The upcoming new generation of optical spectrographs on four-meter-class telescopes will provide invaluable information for reconstructing the history of star formation in individual galaxies up to redshifts of about 0.7. We aim at defining…

Precise stellar ages (uncertainties $\lesssim 1$ Gyr, or $\sim 20\%$ at solar age) are required to discern evolutionary trends in atmospheric biosignatures of terrestrial habitable zone exoplanets surveyed by the Habitable Worlds…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-14 Austin T. Ware , Katelyn Ruppert , Patrick A. Young

We derive stellar metallicities, light-weighted ages and stellar masses for a magnitude-limited sample of 175,128 galaxies drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release Two (SDSS DR2). We compute median-likelihood estimates of these…

The age-metallicity relation of the solar neighbourhood is studied using a sample of 552 late-type dwarfs. This sample was built from the intersection of photometric catalogues with chromospheric activity surveys of the Mount Wilson group.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. J. Rocha-Pinto , W. J. Maciel , John Scalo , Chris Flynn

(abridged) We present a new tool for building synthetic colour-magnitude diagrams of coeval stellar populations. We study, from a theoretical point of view, the impact of axial rotation of stars on various observed properties of single-aged…

We combine recently computed models of stellar evolution using a new treatment of rotation with a Bayesian statistical framework to constrain the ages and other properties of early-type stars. We find good agreement for early-type stars and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-02 Timothy D. Brandt , Chelsea X. Huang

We infer the ages of three young stellar clusters, NGC 2004, NGC 7419, and NGC 2100, using Stellar Ages, a statistical algorithm designed to infer stellar population properties from color magnitude diagrams. Recent studies have revealed…

The dominant systematic uncertainty in the age determination of galactic globular clusters is the depth of the convection envelope of the stars. This parameter is partially degenerate with metallicity which is in turn degenerate with age.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-24 David Valcin , Raul Jimenez , Licia Verde , Jose Luis Bernal , Benjamin D. Wandelt

Stellar ages are critical building blocks of evolutionary models, but challenging to measure for low mass main sequence stars. An unexplored solution in this regime is the application of probabilistic machine learning methods to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 Phil Van-Lane , Joshua S. Speagle , Stephanie Douglas