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We report rotational periods for 16 young brown dwarfs in the nearby Upper Scorpius association, based on 72 days of high-cadence, high-precision photometry from the Kepler space telescope's K2 mission. The periods range from a few hours to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-26 Aleks Scholz , Veselin Kostov , Ray Jayawardhana , Koraljka Muzic

We present the results of a 5 month photometric time-series survey for stellar rotation over a 40'x40' field on the 150 Myr open cluster M35. We report rotation periods for 441 stars and determine their cluster membership and binarity based…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Søren Meibom , Robert D. Mathieu , Keivan G. Stassun

We analyse light curves covering four years of 39 fast-rotating ($P_\mathrm{rot}< 1d$) late-type active stars from the Kepler database. Using time-frequency analysis (Short-Term Fourier-Transform), we find hints for activity cycles of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-04 K. Vida , K. Oláh , R. Szabó

Over the past 40 years, observational surveys have established the existence of a tight relationship between a star's age, rotation period, and magnetic activity. This age-rotation-activity relation documents the interplay between a star's…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-02 Kevin R. Covey , Marcel A. Agueros , Jenna J. Lemonias , Nicholas M. Law , Adam L. Kraus

We determine rotation periods of a sample of 48 late F-type to mid-M dwarf stars using time-series high-resolution spectroscopy of the Ca II H&K and H-alpha chromospheric activity indicators. We find good agreement between the rotation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 A. Suárez Mascareño , R. Rebolo , J. I. González Hernández , M. Esposito

We study the relation between stellar rotation and magnetic activity for a sample of 134 bright, nearby M dwarfs observed in the Kepler Two-Wheel (K2) mission during campaigns C0 to C4. The K2 lightcurves yield photometrically derived…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 B. Stelzer , M. Damasso , A. Scholz , S. P. Matt , --

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 analyzed 3 years of data from the Kepler space mission to derive rotation periods of main-sequence stars below 6500 K. Our automated autocorrelation-based method detected rotation periods between 0.2 and 70 days for 34,030 (25.6%) of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Amy McQuillan , Tsevi Mazeh , Suzanne Aigrain

We derive the effective temperatures and gravities of 461 OB stars in 19 young clusters by fitting the H-gamma profile in their spectra. We use synthetic model profiles for rotating stars to develop a method to estimate the polar gravity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 W. Huang , D. R. Gies

From an examination of ~18,000 Kepler light curves of K- and M-stars we find some 500 which exhibit rotational periods of less than 2 days. Among such stars, approximately 50 show two or more incommensurate periodicities. We discuss the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-05 Katalin Oláh , Saul Rappaport , Matthew Joss

The prediction of the spins of the compact remnants is a fundamental goal of the theory of stellar evolution. Here, we confront the predictions for white dwarf spins from evolutionary models including rotation with observational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. P. L. Suijs , N. Langer , A. -J. Poelarends , S. -C. Yoon , A. Heger , F. Herwig

A cluster intermediate in age between the Pleiades (150 Myr) and the Hyades (600 Myr) is needed to probe the rotational evolution, especially the transition between fast and slow rotation that occurs between the two ages. We study the rich…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 D. J. Fritzewski , S. A. Barnes , D. J. James , K. G. Strassmeier

We have analysed 10 months of public data from the Kepler space mission to measure rotation periods of main-sequence stars with masses between 0.3 and 0.55 M_sun. To derive the rotational period we introduce the autocorrelation function and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-30 Amy McQuillan , Suzanne Aigrain , Tsevi Mazeh

The TESS mission delivers time-series photometry for millions of stars across the sky, offering a probe into stellar astrophysics, including rotation, on a population scale. However, light curve systematics related to the satellite's…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-12 Zachary R. Claytor , Jennifer L. van Saders , Lyra Cao , Marc H. Pinsonneault , Johanna Teske , Rachael L. Beaton

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…

Many magnetic white dwarfs exhibit a polarised spectrum that periodically varies as the star rotates because the magnetic field is not symmetric about the rotation axis. In this work, we report the discovery that while weakly magnetic white…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-18 S. Bagnulo , J. D. Landstreet

Major photometric monitoring campaigns of star-forming regions in the past decade have provided rich rotation period distributions of pre-main-sequence stars. The rotation periods span more than an order of magnitude in period, with most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert D. Mathieu

Age is a fundamental stellar property, yet for many stars it is difficult to reliably determine. For M dwarfs it has been notoriously so. Due to their lower masses, core hydrogen fusion proceeds at a much slower rate in M dwarfs than it…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-31 Scott G. Engle , Edward F. Guinan

We combine photometric metallicities with astrometry from Gaia DR3 to examine the chemodynamic structure of ~250,000 K dwarfs in the Solar Neighborhood (SN). In kinematics, we observe ridges/clumps of "kinematic groups", like studies of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-15 Ilija Medan , Sébastien Lépine

We have examined the relationship between rotation and activity in 14 late-type (M6-M7) M dwarfs, using high resolution spectra taken at the W.M. Keck Observatory and flux-calibrated spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Most were…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Andrew A. West , Gibor Basri