Submitting Campus
Daytona Beach
Department
Physical Sciences
Document Type
Poster
Publication/Presentation Date
2017
Abstract/Description
We are determining rotation periods for an ensemble of over 100 wide non-interacting binary stars in the K2 Campaign 5 field that contain two main sequence dwarfs, as well as a smaller sample containing at least one white dwarf component. Observations of such coeval pairs provide the basis for our new investigation of rotation-based age determinations. Such “gyrochronology” ages can achieve a precision that exceeds most other current method of stellar age determination. Here we present a status report on our analysis of the light curves extracted from the K2 Campaign 5 field.
Sponsorship/Conference/Institution
American Astronomical Society
Grant or Award Name
NASA grants NNX15AV60G and NNX16AB76G
Scholarly Commons Citation
Oswalt, T. D., Buzasi, D., & Otani, T. (2017). Gyrochronology of Wide Binaries in the Kepler K2 Campaign 5 Field. , (). Retrieved from https://commons.erau.edu/publication/1053
