Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1998-03-18
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
text file (9 pages) plus 10 postscript figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Table 1 (15 pages) available upon request
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01597.x
We show that there is a relationship between the age excess, defined as the difference between the stellar isochrone and chromospheric ages, and the metallicity as measured by the index [Fe/H] for late-type dwarfs. The chromospheric age tends to be lower than the isochrone age for metal-poor stars, and the opposite occurs for metal-rich objects. We suggest that this could be an effect of neglecting the metallicity dependence of the calibrated chromospheric emission-age relation. We propose a correction to account for this dependence. We also investigate the metallicity distributions of these stars, and show that there are distinct trends according to the chromospheric activity level. Inactive stars have a metallicity distribution which resembles the metallicity distribution of solar neighbourhood stars (Rocha-Pinto & Maciel 1996), while active stars appear to be concentrated in an activity strip on the log R'HK - [Fe/H] diagram. We provide some explanations for these trends, and show that the chromospheric emission-age relation probably has different slopes on the two sides of the Vaughan-Preston gap.
Maciel Walter J.
Rocha-Pinto Helio J.
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