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We present a sample of local red giant stars observed using the New Mexico State University 1 m telescope with the APOGEE spectrograph, for which we estimate stellar ages and the age distribution from the high-resolution spectroscopic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-27 Diane K Feuillet , Jo Bovy , Jon Holtzman , Leo Girardi , Nick MacDonald , Steven R Majewski , David L Nidever

Globular clusters (GCs) provide statistically significant coeval populations of stars spanning various evolutionary stages, allowing robust constraints on stellar evolution model parameters and ages. We analyze eight old Milky Way GCs with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-07 Jiaqi , Ying , Brian Chaboyer , Michael Boylan-Kolchin , Daniel Weisz , Rowan Goebel-Bain

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

Young stars form in associations, meaning that young stellar associations provide an ideal environment to measure the age of a nominally coeval population. Isochrone fitting, which is the typical method for measuring the age of a coeval…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-09 Kendall Sullivan , Adam L. Kraus

Among the various methods used to age-date stars, methods based on stellar model predictions are widely used, for nearly all kind of stars in large ranges of masses, chemical compositions and evolutionary stages. The precision and accuracy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Yveline Lebreton , Marie-Jo Goupil , J. Montalban

Precise stellar ages are fundamental to Galactic archaeology. However, obtaining reliable age estimates and uncertainties for field stars has been a long-standing challenge. We test the fidelity of ages from recent catalogs of giants and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-28 Cheyanne Shariat , Kareem El-Badry , Soumyadeep Bhattacharjee

Using a sample of 68 planet-hosting stars I carry out a comparison of isochrone fitting and gyrochronology to investigate whether tidal interactions between the stars and their planets are leading to underestimated ages using the latter…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-24 D. J. A. Brown

We aim to develop a model-driven deep learning approach to age determination, by training neural networks on stellar evolutionary grids. Contrary to the usual data-driven deep learning approach of using prior age estimates as training data,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-15 T. Boin , L. Casamiquela , M. Haywood , P. Di Matteo , Y. Lebreton , M. Uddin , D. R. Reese

Context: Star clusters, composed of stars born from the same molecular cloud, serve as invaluable natural laboratories for understanding the fundamental processes governing stellar formation and evolution. Aims: This study aims to…

Red giant stars are perhaps the most important type of stars for Galactic and extra-galactic archaeology: they are luminous, occur in all stellar populations, and their surface temperatures allow precise abundance determinations for many…

Knowledge of ages for stars formed over a galaxy's lifetime is fundamental to understand its formation and evolution. However, stellar ages are difficult to obtain since they cannot be measured from observations, being comparison with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-30 Carme Gallart , Edouard J. Bernard , Chris B. Brook , Tomas Ruiz-Lara , Santi Cassisi , Vanessa Hill , Matteo Monelli

We present a catalog of ~100,000 periodic variable stars in TESS FFI data among members of widely distributed moving groups identified with Gaia in the previous papers in the series. By combining the periods from our catalog attributable to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Marina Kounkel , Keivan G. Stassun , Luke G. Bouma , Kevin Covey , Lynne A. Hillenbrand , Jason Lee Curtis

The Gaia benchmark stars (GBS) are very bright stars of different late spectral types, luminosities and metallicities. They are well-known in the Galactic archaeology community because they are widely used to calibrate and validate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-28 Paula Jofre , Ulrike Heiter , Sven Buder

In this article we summarise on-going work on the so-called Gaia FGK Benchmark Stars. This work consists of the determination of their atmospheric parameters and of the construction of a high-resolution spectral library. The definition of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-12-11 Paula Jofre , Ulrike Heiter , Sergi Blanco-Cuaresma , Caroline Soubiran

Accurately determining the age of H\,{ii} regions and the stars they host is as important as it is challenging. Historically the most popular method has been isochrone fitting to Hertzsprung-Russell Diagrams or Colour-Magnitude Diagrams.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-19 H. F. Stevance , J. J. Eldridge , A. McLeod , E. R. Stanway , A. A. Chrimes

Asteroseismology provides powerful means to probe stellar interiors. The oscillations frequencies are closely related to stellar interior properties via the density and sound speed profiles. Since these are tightly linked with the mass and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Yveline Lebreton , Josefina Montalban

We present the detailed spectroscopic analysis of 72 evolved stars, including the [Fe/H] determination for the whole sample. These metallicities, together with the Teff values and the absolute V magnitude derived from Hipparcos parallaxes,…

We have entered an era of large spectroscopic surveys in which we can measure, through automated pipelines, the atmospheric parameters and chemical abundances for large numbers of stars. Calibrating these survey pipelines using a set of…

There is growing evidence from stellar kinematics and galactic chemical evolution (GCE) suggesting that giant planets (M$_{P}\geq$0.3$M_{J}$) are relatively young compared to the most commonly occurring population of small planets (M$_{P}…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-23 C. Swastik , Ravinder K. Banyal , Mayank Narang , Athira Unni , T. Sivarani

A method of determining ages and masses of asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars between 0.8 and $\sim$6 M$_\odot$ is demonstrated, based on comparing the star's position in the period--absolute-magnitude diagram to theoretical evolutionary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 Iain McDonald