Published October 12, 2021 | Version v1
Poster Open

Stellar Rotation in UCL/LCC with TESS

  • 1. Caltech-IPAC/IRSA
  • 2. Caltech-IPAC/SSC
  • 3. Caltech
  • 4. SETI Institute

Description

In recent years, we have been using K2's high precision photometry to probe stellar variability and stellar rotation to lower masses and lower amplitudes than has ever been done before. Younger stars are generally more rapidly rotating and have larger star spots than older stars of similar masses. K2's large field of view was able to monitor a significant fraction of many nearby clusters and associations; some of the nearest associations can only be monitored by TESS, which observes ~85% of the sky. We present rotation rates from a TESS study of stars in the ~15 Myr old Upper Centarus-Lupus (UCL)/Lower Centaurus-Crux (LCC) association.

Files

multicluster.png

Files (2.2 MB)

Name Size Download all
md5:ee8c5ab4cb9e72f2ee57ab5eb38ca83c
357.3 kB Preview Download
md5:484f550720e947b7b3d6cc7b14ff40c7
1.8 MB Preview Download