Spectroscopy of Very Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs in IC2391: Lithium depletion and Halpha emission

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2004-06-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0406436v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Astrophysical Journal, accepted June 18, 2004

Scientific paper

10.1086/423485

We have obtained intermediate-resolution optical spectroscopy of 44 candidate very low mass members of the nearby young open cluster IC2391. Of these, 26 spectra are totally new, 14 were already analyzed in a previous paper and another four are in common. These spectra, taken at the Cerro Tololo 4-meter and Magellan I and II telescopes, allow us to confirm 33 of them as likely cluster members, based on their spectral types, presence of Li, and Halpha emission. Among these new cluster members is CTIO-160 (M7), the first IC2391 candidate to satisfy all criteria for being a substellar member of the cluster, including detection of the Li 6708A doublet. With the enlarged membership, we are able to locate the lithium depletion boundary of the cluster more reliably than in the past. Based on comparison to several theoretical models, we derive an age of 50+-5 Myr for IC2391. We also estimate new ages for the Alpha Per and Pleiades clusters; our ages are 85+-10 Myr and 130+-20 Myr, respectively. We derive an estimate of the initial mass function of IC2391 that extends to below the substellar limit, and compare it to those of other well-studied young open clusters. The index of the power law mass function for IC2391 is alpha=0.96+-0.12, valid in the range 0.5 to 0.072 M(sun).

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