Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2010-05-07
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
82 pages, 16 figures, 9 tables. Accepted for publication in Astronomical Journal
Scientific paper
The concept of kinematic assemblages evolving from dispersed stellar clusters has remained contentious since Eggen's initial formulation of moving groups in the 1960's. With high quality parallaxes from the Hipparcos space astrometry mission, distance measurements for thousands of nearby, seemingly isolated stars are currently available. With these distances, a high resolution spectroscopic abundance analysis can be brought to bear on the alleged members of these moving groups. If a structure is a relic of an open cluster, the members can be expected to be monolithic in age and abundance inasmuch as homogeneity is observed in young open clusters. In this work we have examined 34 putative members of the proposed Wolf 630 moving group using high resolution stellar spectroscopy. The stars of the sample have been chemically tagged to determine abundance homogeneity and confirm the existence of a homogeneous subsample of 19 stars. Fitting the homogeneous subsample with Yale-Yonsei isochrones yields a single evolutionary sequence of $\sim$2.7 $\pm$ 0.5 Gyr. It is concluded that this 19 star subsample of the Wolf 630 moving group sample of 34 stars could represent a dispersed cluster with an $<$[Fe/H]$>$=-0.01 $\pm$ 0.02 and an age of 2.7 $\pm$ 0.5 Gyr. In addition, chemical abundances of Na and Al in giants are examined for indications of enhancements as observed in field giants of old open clusters, overexcitation/ionization effects are explored in the cooler dwarfs of the sample and oxygen is derived from the infrared triplet and the forbidden line at $\lambda$6300 \AA.
Bubar Eric J.
King Jeremy R.
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