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arxiv: 1609.00601 · v1 · pith:3Y5ZMS4Snew · submitted 2016-09-02 · 🌌 astro-ph.SR

A Revised Gyro-Age for M 67 from Kepler/K2-Campaign-5 Light Curves

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We revisit the photometric variability of stars in the M 67 field using Kepler/K2-Campaign-5 light curves. In our previous work, we limited the search area around M\,67 to that of a recent ground-based study. In the present work, we expand the search area and apply a more rigorous period-finding algorithm to determine the rotation periods of 98 main sequence cluster members from the same data. In addition, we derive periods of 40 stars from the K2SC detrended light curves. We determine the mean period of single sun-like main sequence cluster members to be $29.6 \pm 0.6$ d. Assuming the periods correspond to stellar rotation, the corresponding mean gyro-age is $5.4 \pm 0.2$ Gyr.

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