Stellar rotation in the Hyades and Praesepe: gyrochronology and braking timescale

Details Stellar rotation in the Hyades and Praesepe: gyrochronology and braking timescale Stellar rotation in the Hyades and Praesepe: gyrochronology and braking timescale

Dec 2010

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SF2A-2010: Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Eds.: S. Boissier, M. Heydari-

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Stars: Rotation, Stars: Open Clusters, Hyades, Praesepe

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We present the results of photometric surveys for stellar rotation in the Hyades and in Praesepe, using data obtained as part of the SuperWASP exoplanetary transit-search programme. We determined accurate rotation periods for more than 120 sources whose cluster membership was confirmed by common proper motion and colour-magnitude fits to the clusters' isochrones. This allowed us to determine the effect of magnetic braking on a wide range of spectral types for expected ages of ˜ 600 Myr for the Hyades and Praesepe. Both clusters show a tight and nearly linear relation between J-Ks colour and rotation period in the F,G and K spectral range. This confirms that loss of angular momentum was significant enough that stars with strongly different initial rotation rates have converged to the same rotation period for a given mass, by the age of Hyades and Praesepe. In the case of the Hyades our colour-period sequence extends well into the M dwarf regime and shows a steep increase in the scatter of the colour-period relation, with identification of numerous rapid rotators from ˜0.5 M_&sun; down to the lowest masses probed by our survey(˜0.25 M_&sun;). This provides crucial constraints on the rotational braking timescalesand further clears the way to use gyrochronology as an accurate agemeasurement tool for main-sequence stars.

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