The Monitor project: Rotation of low-mass stars in NGC 2362 -- testing the disc regulation paradigm at 5 Myr

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2007-11-15

arxiv.org/abs/0711.2398v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages, 17 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12725.x

We report on the results of a time-series photometric survey of NGC 2362, carried out using the CTIO 4m Blanco telescope and Mosaic-II detector as part of the Monitor project. Rotation periods were derived for 271 candidate cluster members over the mass range 0.1 <~ M/Msol <~ 1.2. The rotation period distributions show a clear mass-dependent morphology, qualitatively similar to that in NGC 2264, as would be expected from the age of this cluster. Using models of angular momentum evolution, we show that angular momentum losses over the ~1-5 Myr age range appear to be needed in order to reproduce the evolution of the slowest rotators in the sample from the ONC to NGC 2362, as found by many previous studies. By incorporating Spitzer IRAC mid-IR measurements, we found that 3-4 objects showing mid-IR excesses indicative of the presence of circumstellar discs were all slow rotators, as would be expected in the disc regulation paradigm for early pre-main sequence angular momentum evolution, but this result is not statistically significant at present, given the extremely limited sample size.

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