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疏散星团NGC 3532中冷恒星的自转周期。从快速旋转到慢速旋转的过渡

Rotation periods for cool stars in the open cluster NGC 3532. The transition from fast to slow rotation

D. J. Fritzewski, S. A. Barnes, D. J. James, K. G. Strassmeier

摘要:

需要一个年龄介于昴星团(1.5亿年)和毕星团(6亿年)之间的星团来探测旋转演化,特别是在两个年龄之间发生的快速和缓慢旋转之间的转变。我们研究丰富的3亿年前的疏散星团NGC 3532,以提供角动量损失的限制。测量旋转周期建立在我们以前的工作提供光谱成员信息的集群,它支持色球活动测量的集群恒星,我们提供了一个配套文件。利用42 d长的测光时间序列观测,我们测量了NGC 3532成员的自转周期,并将它们与角动量演化模型的预测进行了比较。我们直接测量了星团成员的176个光度旋转周期。另外113光度旋转周期被确定使用活动信息,导致在NGC 3532中的FGKM恒星的总样本包含279个旋转周期。从这个丰富的数据集构建的颜色周期图显示了一个人口稠密和结构化的慢旋转序列,和一个快速旋转序列演变超过零年龄的主序列年龄的恒星是在从快速到缓慢旋转的过渡。我们还发现了一个扩展的慢旋转序列,显然是我们以前在NGC 2516中发现的类似物。我们比较我们的周期分布的旋转等时线的颜色周期空间,发现所有考虑的模型都有一定的缺点。使用更详细的自旋下降模型,我们发展的旋转周期的年轻NGC 2516向前的时间,并发现,自旋下降的模型是过于积极的慢旋转。相比之下,在这些模型中,演化的快速旋转序列上的恒星没有足够强的旋转。我们的观察表明,一个较短的交叉时间的旋转间隙。(节录)

英文摘要:

A cluster intermediate in age between the Pleiades (150 Myr) and the Hyades (600 Myr) is needed to probe the rotational evolution, especially the transition between fast and slow rotation that occurs between the two ages. We study the rich 300 Myr-old open cluster NGC 3532 to provide constraints on angular momentum loss. Measuring the rotation periods builds on our prior work of providing spectroscopic membership information for the cluster, and it supports the chromospheric activity measurements of cluster stars that we provide in a companion paper. Using 42 d-long photometric time series observations, we measured rotation periods for members of NGC 3532 and compared them with the predictions of angular momentum evolution models. We directly measured 176 photometric rotation periods for the cluster members. An additional 113 photometric rotation periods were identified using activity information resulting in a total sample containing 279 rotation periods for FGKM stars in NGC 3532. The colour-period diagram constructed from this rich data set shows a well-populated and structured slow rotator sequence, and a fast rotator sequence evolved beyond zero-age main sequence age whose stars are in transition from fast to slow rotation. We also identify an extended slow rotator sequence, apparently the analogue of the one we previously identified in NGC 2516. We compare our period distribution to rotational isochrones in colour-period space and find that all considered models have certain shortcomings. Using more detailed spin-down models, we evolve the rotation periods of the younger NGC 2516 forward in time and find that the spindown of the models is too aggressive with respect to the slow rotators. In contrast, stars on the evolved fast rotator sequence are not spun down strongly enough by these models. Our observations suggest a shorter crossing time for the rotational gap. (Abridged)

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