The Monitor project: Rotation of low-mass stars in the open cluster M34

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We report on the results of a V- and i-band time-series photometric survey of M34 (NGC 1039) using the Wide Field Camera (WFC) on the Isaac Newton Telescope (INT), achieving better than 1 per cent precision per data point for 13 lsim; i ≲ 17. Candidate cluster members were selected from a V versus V - I colour-magnitude diagram over 14 < V < 24 (0.12 ≲ M/M⊙ 1.0), finding 714 candidates, of which we expect ∼400 to be real cluster members (taking into account contamination from the field). The mass function was computed, and found to be consistent with a lognormal distribution in dN/d log M. Searching for periodic variable objects in the candidate members gave 105 detections over the mass range 0.25 < 1.0. The distribution of rotation periods for 0.4 < 1.0 was found to peak at ∼7 d, with a tail of fast rotators down to periods of ∼0.8 d. For 0.25 < 0.4 we found a peak at short periods, with a lack of slow rotators (e.g. P ≳ 5 d), consistent with the work of other authors at very low masses. Our results are interpreted in the context of previous work, finding that we reproduce the same general features in the rotational period distributions. A number of rapid rotators were found with velocities ∼ a factor of 2 lower than in the Pleiades, consistent with models of angular momentum evolution assuming solid body rotation without needing to invoke core-envelope decoupling. © 2006 RAS.

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Irwin, J., Aigrain, S., Hodgkin, S., Irwin, M., Bouvier, J., Clarke, C., … Moraux, E. (2006). The Monitor project: Rotation of low-mass stars in the open cluster M34. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 370(2), 954–974. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10521.x

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