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A new method is presented to compute age estimates from theoretical isochrones using temperature, luminosity and metallicity data for individual stars. Based on Bayesian probability theory, this method avoids the systematic biases affecting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Frederic Pont , Laurent Eyer

The rotation-mass-age relationship offers a promising avenue for measuring the ages of field stars, assuming the attendant uncertainties to this technique can be well characterized. We model stellar angular momentum evolution starting with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-31 Courtney R. Epstein , Marc H. Pinsonneault

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

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

Nearly half a century has passed since the initial indications that stellar rotation slows while chromospheric activity weakens with a power-law dependence on age, the so-called Skumanich relations. Subsequent characterization of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-01 Travis S. Metcalfe , Ricky Egeland

Gyrochronology, a valuable tool for determining ages of low-mass stars where other techniques fail, relies on accurate calibration. We present a sample of 185 wide ($>$$100$ au) white dwarf + main sequence (WD + MS) binaries. Total ages of…

Current spectroscopic surveys are producing large catalogs of chemical abundances for stars of all types. The yttrium to magnesium ratio, [Y/Mg], has emerged as a candidate age indicator for solar twins in the local stellar neighborhood.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Travis A. Berger , Jennifer L. van Saders , Daniel Huber , Eric Gaidos , Joshua E. Schlieder , Zachary R. Claytor

Age estimation techniques such as gyrochronology and magnetochronology can't be applied to stars that exchanged angular momentum with their close environment. This is especially true for massive close-in planetary companion (with a periods…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-26 Florian Gallet , Philippe Delorme

We use models of stellar angular momentum evolution to determine ages for $\sim500$ stars in the APOGEE-\textit{Kepler} Cool Dwarfs sample. We focus on lower main-sequence stars, where other age-dating tools become ineffective. Our age…

The ages of the most common stars - low-mass (cool) stars like the Sun, and smaller - are difficult to derive because traditional dating methods use stellar properties that either change little as the stars age or are hard to measure. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Soren Meibom , Sydney A. Barnes , Imants Platais , Ronald L. Gilliland , David W. Latham , Robert D. Mathieu

Previous studies suggest that tidal interactions may be responsible for discrepancies between the ages of exoplanet host stars estimated using stellar models (isochronal ages) and age estimates based on the stars' rotation periods…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 P. F. L. Maxted , A. M. Serenelli , J. Southworth

We present a new method to compute stellar ages in Globular Clusters (GC) that is ten times more precise than the traditional isochrone fitting procedure. The method relies on accurate stellar evolutionary tracks and on photometry for GCs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Raul Jimenez , Paolo Padoan

Age is the most difficult fundamental stellar parameter to infer for isolated stars. While isochrone-based ages are in general imprecise for both main sequence dwarfs and red giants, precise isochrone-based ages can be obtained for stars on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-29 David M. Nataf , Kevin C. Schlaufman , Henrique Reggiani , Isabel Hahn

We consider the procedure of isochrone fitting and its application to the study of red giant branch (RGB) photometry in old stellar populations. This is extended to consider the problems introduced by the inclusion of lower-magnitude…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. M. Frayn , G. F. Gilmore

The ages of star clusters and co-moving stellar groups contain essential information about the Milky Way. Their special properties make them excellent tracers of galactic structure and key components to unlocking its star formation history.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-02 Alena Rottensteiner , Stefan Meingast

Age is one of the most fundamental parameters of stars, yet it is one of the hardest to determine as it requires modelling various aspects of stellar formation and evolution. When we compare the ages derived from isochronal and dynamical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-23 Núria Miret Roig , João Alves , David Barrado , Andreas Burkert , Sebastian Ratzenböck , Ralf Konietzka

We present a Bayesian implementation of isochrone fitting in deriving stellar ages and masses, incorporating absolute K magnitude ($\rm M_K$) derived from 2MASS photometry and Gaia DR1 parallax and differentiation between initial bulk…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-30 Jane Lin , Aaron Dotter , Yuan-Sen Ting , Martin Asplund

UBC 1 is an open cluster discovered in Gaia data and located near the edge of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite's (TESS) continuous viewing zone. We aim to provide age constraints for this poorly studied open cluster from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-10 D. J. Fritzewski , T. Van Reeth , C. Aerts , J. Van Beeck , S. Gossage , G. Li

We investigate how isochrones computed with different input physics and initial conditions affect the age dating of the open cluster NGC 6866, and compare the results with asteroseismic ages derived from Kepler photometry. Using Gaia DR3…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-06 Haotian Wang , Gang Li , Dario J. Fritzewski , Timothy Van Reeth , Conny Aerts

The ages of pulsating stars in clusters can be determined by isochrone fitting and it can be further improved by asteroseismic modelling. We analyse the intermediate-age open cluster NGC2477, known to suffer from differential extinction, to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-21 D. B. Palakkatharappil , O. L. Creevey