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Rotation in the Pleiades with K2. II. Multiperiod Stars

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  • 1. ROR icon Infrared Processing and Analysis Center
  • 2. ROR icon Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble
  • 3. ROR icon Ames Research Center
  • 4. ROR icon California Institute of Technology
  • 5. ROR icon Space Telescope Science Institute
  • 6. ROR icon Johns Hopkins University
  • 7. ROR icon Centro de Astrobiología
  • 8. ROR icon NASA Exoplanet Science Institute
  • 9. ROR icon The Ohio State University
  • 10. ROR icon Vanderbilt University
  • 11. ROR icon Fisk University
  • 12. ROR icon Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo
  • 13. ROR icon University of Oxford
  • 14. ROR icon University of Cambridge
  • 15. ROR icon University of St Andrews

Abstract

We use K2 to continue the exploration of the distribution of rotation periods in Pleiades that we began in Paper I. We have discovered complicated multiperiod behavior in Pleiades stars using these K2 data, and we have grouped them into categories, which are the focal part of this paper. About 24% of the sample has multiple, real frequencies in the periodogram, sometimes manifesting as obvious beating in the LCs. Those having complex and/or structured periodogram peaks, unresolved multiple periods, and resolved close multiple periods are likely due to spot/spot group evolution and/or latitudinal differential rotation; these largely compose the slowly rotating sequence in P versus (V − K_s)_0 identified in Paper I. The fast sequence in P versus (V − K_s)_0 is dominated by single-period stars; these are likely to be rotating as solid bodies. Paper III continues the discussion, speculating about the origin and evolution of the period distribution in the Pleiades.

Additional Information

© 2016. The American Astronomical Society. Received 2016 April 29; revised 2016 May 31; accepted 2016 May 31; published 2016 October 11. We thank R. Stern and T. David for helpful comments on draft manuscripts. A.C.C. acknowledges support from STFC grant ST/M001296/1. Some of the data presented in this paper were obtained from the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST). Support for MAST for non-HST data is provided by the NASA Office of Space Science via grant NNX09AF08G and by other grants and contracts. This paper includes data collected by the Kepler mission. Funding for the Kepler mission is provided by the NASA Science Mission directorate. This research has made use of the NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive (IRSA), which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This research has made use of NASA's Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Abstract Service and of the SIMBAD database, operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France. This research has made use of data products from the Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS), which is a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation. The 2MASS data are served by the NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive, which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This publication makes use of data products from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, which is a joint project of the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Facilities: Kepler - The Kepler Mission, K2 - , Spitzer - Spitzer Space Telescope satellite, 2MASS - .

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https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.00055 (URL)

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Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
ST/M001296/1
NASA
NNX09AF08G
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NSF

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2016-10-14
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2021-11-11
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