Submitting Campus
Daytona Beach
Department
Physical Sciences
Document Type
Presentation without Video
Publication/Presentation Date
2017
Abstract/Description
Essential to understanding the history of the Galaxy’s stellar populations, ages are among the most difficult to measure properties of stars. Accurate stellar ages would provide key leverage on problems ranging from the habitability of exoplanets to the Galaxy’s chemical evolution and age. Gyrochronology, the empirical relation between rotation and age, is believed to be among the best current methods of stellar age determination. Using several hundred wide non-interacting binaries identified in the Kepler mission “K2” extended mission fields we are testing this paradigm. Such wide pairs afford a unique opportunity to unravel and calibrate the effects of mass, rotation, activity and age because components of a given binary should have rotation and activity levels consistent with their masses and a common age. We present preliminary results for several dozen wide pairs in which both components exhibit detectable rotational modulation.
Sponsorship/Conference/Institution
American Astronomical Society
Grant or Award Name
NSF AST-0807919, AST-1358787, PHY-1358879; NASA NNX15AV60G, NNX15_005
Scholarly Commons Citation
Oswalt, T. D., Otani, T., Stone-Martinez, A., Majewski, P., & Buzasi, D. (2017). Testing the Stellar Rotation vs. Age Paradigm Using Wide Binaries in the Kepler & K2 Fields. , (). Retrieved from https://commons.erau.edu/publication/1055
