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In this work we examine M dwarf rotation rates at a range of ages to establish benchmarks for Mdwarf gyrochronology. This work includes a sample of 713 spectroscopically-classified M0-M8 dwarfs with new rotation rates measured from K2 light…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-11 Mark Popinchalk , Jacqueline K. Faherty , Rocio Kiman , Jonathan Gagné , Jason L. Curtis , Ruth Angus , Kelle L. Cruz , Emily L. Rice

We review the current state of our knowledge concerning the rotation and angular momentum evolution of young stellar objects and brown dwarfs from a primarily observational view point. Periods are typically accurate to 1% and available for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Herbst , J. Eisloeffel , R. Mundt , A. Scholz

We report rotation periods for 20 cool (FGK) main sequence member stars of the 4 Gyr-old open cluster M 67 (= NGC 2682), obtained by analysing data from Campaign 5 of the K2 mission with the Kepler Space Telescope. The rotation periods…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Sydney A. Barnes , Joerg Weingrill , Dario Fritzewski , Klaus G. Strassmeier

M dwarfs remain active over longer timescales than their Sunlike counterparts, with potentially devastating implications for the atmospheres of their planets. However, the age at which fully-convective M dwarfs transition from active and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Emily K. Pass , David Charbonneau , Jonathan M. Irwin , Jennifer G. Winters

Gyrochronology and recent theoretical findings are used to reduce the number of input parameters of differential rotation models. This eventually leads to a theoretical prediction for the surface differential rotation as a function of only…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 L. L. Kitchatinov , S. V. Olemskoy

A knowledge of stellar ages is crucial for our understanding of many astrophysical phenomena, and yet ages can be difficult to determine. As they become older, stars lose mass and angular momentum, resulting in an observed slowdown in…

We examine how the fraction $f$ of stars for which rotational modulation has been detected in Kepler light curves depends on the stellar mass $M_\star$ and age $t_\star$. Our sample consists of $\approx 850$ FGK stars hosting transiting…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Kento Masuda

Rotational light modulation in Kepler photometry of K - A stars is used to estimate the absolute rotational shear. The rotation frequency spread in 2562 carefully selected stars with known rotation periods is measured using time-frequency…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 Luis A. Balona , Oyirwoth P. Abedigamba

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

Features of the development of activity cycles in the solar-type stars and fast-rotating cool dwarfs have been considered for 65 stars observed in some decades. Cycles with duration of 7-18 years compared to the solar cycle were found for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-25 N. I. Bondar , M. M. Katsova , M. A. Livshits

We study the dependence of the coronal activity index on the star's rotation rate. This question was considered earlier for 824 late-type stars on the basis of a consolidated catalogue of the soft X-ray fluxes. We carry out a more refined…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-22 B. A. Nizamov , M. M. Katsova , M. A. Livshits

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…

The existence of high-$\alpha$ stars with inferred ages < 6 Gyr has been confirmed recently with large spectroscopic and photometric surveys. However, stellar mergers or binary interactions can induce properties associated with young ages,…

Surprisingly, current atmospheric models suggest that the coolest T dwarfs (T8.5 to T10) are young and very low mass (0.06-2Gyr, 5-20Mjup, Leggett et al.2009, 2010, 2012). Studies of population kinematics offer an independent constraint on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-22 Leigh Smith , Philip Lucas , Ben Burningham , Hugh Jones , Ricky Smart , David Pinfield , Federico Marocco , James Clarke

The stellar Rotation $vs.$ Age relation is commonly considered as a useful tool to derive reliable ages for Sun-like stars. However, in the light of \kepler\ data, the presence of apparently old and fast rotators that do not obey the usual…

Using spectroscopic observations and photometric light curves of 238 nearby M dwarfs from the MEarth exoplanet transit survey, we examine the relationships between magnetic activity (quantified by H-alpha emission), rotation period, and…

We report multi-epoch radial velocities, rotational velocities, and atmospheric parameters for 37 T-type brown dwarfs observed with Keck/NIRSPEC. Using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo forward-modeling method, we achieve median precisions of 0.5…

The promise of gyrochronology is that given a star's rotation period and mass, its age can be inferred. The reality of gyrochronology is complicated by effects other than ordinary magnetized braking that alter stellar rotation periods. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-19 Luke G. Bouma , Elsa K. Palumbo , Lynne A. Hillenbrand

Magnetic activity and rotation are related to the age of low-mass main sequence stars. To further constrain these relations, we study a sample of 574 main sequence stars members of common proper motion pairs with white dwarfs, identified…

We report rotation periods, variability characteristics, gyrochronological ages for ~950 of the Kepler Object of Interest host stars. We find a wide dispersion in the amplitude of the photometric variability as a function of rotation,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Lucianne M. Walkowicz , Gibor S. Basri