Characterizing the AB Doradus Moving Group via High-resolution Spectroscopy and Kinematic Traceback
Abstract
We present a detailed analysis of 10 proposed F and G members of the nearby, young moving group AB Doradus (ABD). Our sample was obtained using the 2.7 m telescope at the McDonald Observatory with the coude echelle spectrograph, achieving R ~ 60,000 and signal-to-noise ratio ~200. We derive spectroscopic T eff, log(g), [Fe/H], and microturbulance (vt ) using a bootstrap method of the TGVIT software resulting in typical errors of 33K in T eff, 0.08 dex in log(g), 0.03 dex in [Fe/H], and 0.13 km s-1 in vt . Characterization of the ABD sample is performed in three ways: (1) chemical homogeneity, (2) kinematic traceback, and (3) isochrone fitting. We find the average metal abundance is [M/H] = -0.03 ± 0.06 with a traceback age of 125 Myr. Our stars were fit to three different evolutionary models and we found that the best match to our ABD sample is the YREC [M/H] = -0.1 model. In our sample of 10 stars, we identify 1 star that is a probable non-member, 3 enigmatic stars, and 6 stars with confirmed membership. We also present a list of chemically coherent stars from this study and the Barenfeld et al. study.
- Publication:
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The Astronomical Journal
- Pub Date:
- October 2014
- DOI:
- 10.1088/0004-6256/148/4/70
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1407.1076
- Bibcode:
- 2014AJ....148...70M
- Keywords:
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- stars: fundamental parameters;
- stars: kinematics and dynamics;
- stars: pre-main sequence;
- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 34 pages, 9 figures, 6 tables