APOGEE-Kepler Cool Dwarf star ages determination Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Claytor Z.R.
  2. van Saders J.L.
  3. Santos A.R.G.
  4. Garcia R.A.
  5. Mathur S.,Tayar J.
  6. Pinsonneault M.H.
  7. Shetrone M.
  8. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We use models of stellar angular momentum evolution to determine ages for ~500 stars in the APOGEE-Kepler Cool Dwarfs sample. We focus on lower-main-sequence stars, where other age-dating tools become ineffective. Our age distributions are compared to those derived from asteroseismic and giant samples and solar analogs. We are able to recover gyrochronological ages for old, lower-main-sequence stars, a remarkable improvement over prior work in hotter stars. Under our model assumptions, our ages have a median relative uncertainty of 14%, comparable to the age precision inferred for more massive stars using traditional methods. We investigate trends of Galactic {alpha}-enhancement with age, finding evidence of a detection threshold between the age of the oldest {alpha}-poor stars and that of the bulk {alpha}-rich population. We argue that gyrochronology is an effective tool reaching ages of 10-12Gyr in K and early M dwarfs. Finally, we present the first effort to quantify the impact of detailed abundance patterns on rotational evolution. We estimate a ~15% bias in age for cool, {alpha}-enhanced (+0.4dex) stars when standard solar-abundance-pattern rotational models are used for age inference, rather than models that appropriately account for {alpha}-enrichment.

Keywords
  1. stellar-ages
  2. chemical-abundances
  3. stellar-masses
  4. stellar-radii
  5. astronomical-models
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2020ApJ...888...43C
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doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.18880043

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2021-07-13T13:34:33Z
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2021-07-13T13:34:33Z
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