New rotation periods in the Pleiades: Interpreting activity indicators

Details New rotation periods in the Pleiades: Interpreting activity indicators New rotation periods in the Pleiades: Interpreting activity indicators

1997-11-24

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9711284v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

24 pages, LaTex (AASTeX); includes 8 postscript figures and 4 Latex tables. To appear in ApJ, Feb. 1, 1998. Postscript version

Scientific paper

10.1086/305173

We present results of photometric monitoring campaigns of G, K and M dwarfs in the Pleiades carried out in 1994, 1995 and 1996. We have determined rotation periods for 18 stars in this cluster. In this paper, we examine the validity of using observables such as X-ray activity and amplitude of photometric variations as indicators of angular momentum loss. We report the discovery of cool, slow rotators with high amplitudes of variation. This contradicts previous conclusions about the use of amplitudes as an alternate diagnostic of the saturation of angular momentum loss. We show that the X-ray data can be used as observational indicators of mass-dependent saturation in the angular momentum loss proposed on theoretical grounds.

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