| Issue |
A&A
Volume 521, October 2010
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | A12 | |
| Number of page(s) | 40 | |
| Section | Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014948 | |
| Published online | 14 October 2010 | |
A spectroscopy study of nearby late-type stars, possible members of stellar kinematic groups *,**,***
1
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Dpto. Física Teórica, Módulo 15,
Facultad de Ciencias, Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain e-mail: jesus.maldonado@uam.es
2
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Dpto. Astrofísica, Facultad Ciencias Físicas,
28040 Madrid, Spain
3
Laboratorio de Astrofísica Estelar y Exoplanetas, Centro de Astrobiología, LAEX-CAB (CSIC-INTA),
ESAC Campus, PO BOX 78, 28691 Villanueva de la Cañada, Madrid, Spain
Received:
6
May
2010
Accepted:
1
June
2010
Context. Nearby late-type stars are excellent targets for seeking young objects in stellar associations and moving groups. The origin of these structures is still misunderstood, and lists of moving group members often change with time and also from author to author. Most members of these groups have been identified by means of kinematic criteria, leading to an important contamination of previous lists by old field stars.
Aims. We attempt to identify unambiguous moving group members among a sample of nearby-late type stars by studying their kinematics, lithium abundance, chromospheric activity, and other age-related properties.
Methods. High-resolution echelle spectra (R ~ 57 000) of a sample of nearby late-type stars are used to derive accurate radial velocities that are combined with the precise Hipparcos parallaxes and proper motions to compute galactic-spatial velocity components. Stars are classified as possible members of the classical moving groups according to their kinematics. The spectra are also used to study several age-related properties for young late-type stars, i.e., the equivalent width of the lithium Li i 6707.8 Å line or the R'HK index. Additional information like X-ray fluxes from the ROSAT All-Sky Survey or the presence of debris discs is also taken into account. The different age estimators are compared and the moving group membership of the kinematically selected candidates are discussed.
Results. From a total list of 405 nearby stars, 102 have been classified as moving group candidates according to their kinematics. i.e., only ~25.2% of the sample. The number reduces when age estimates are considered, and only 26 moving group candidates (25.5% of the 102 candidates) have ages in agreement with the star having the same age as an MG member.
Key words: stars: late-type / stars: kinematics and dynamics / open clusters and associations: general
Based on observations collected at the Centro Astronómico Hispano Alemán (CAHA) at Calar Alto, operated jointly by the Max-Planck Institut für Astronomie and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC) and observations made with the Italian Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG) operated on the island of La Palma by the Fundación Galileo Galilei of the INAF (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica) at the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias.
Appendices and Tables 1, 5–15 are available in electronic form at http://www.aanda.org
Table 1 is also available in electronic form at the CDS via anonymous ftp to cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/521/A12
© ESO, 2010
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