Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aas...21547807j&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #478.07; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.566
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
Although there is strong evidence that stellar activity declines as a star ages, beyond about the age of the Hyades (600 Myr) there is little direct confirmation of this decline in stars of known age. This report is an update of an earlier report (Hayes-Gehrke, et al., 2004, AJ, 128, 2862) of a long-term project to explore stellar activity in old open clusters. I have now accumulated 12 years of photometry of the old clusters NGC 7789 (about 1.8 Gyr) and M 67 (about 4 Gyr). An analysis of these data has revealed a substantial number of low-amplitude variable stars in both clusters, including a number of previously-discovered eclipsing binary stars, and several stars near the main sequence turnoff of both clusters that exhibit apparently erratic variations. Some of the M 67 erratics are known X-ray sources. On the main sequence, the large majority of stars show little or no evidence for variability at the 0.1% - 0.2% level, consistent with a regular systematic decline in activity level with age.
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