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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 842, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa6e52
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stars: evolution; stars: late-type; stars: rotation
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- NSF [AST-1255419, AST-1517367, AST-1449476]
- NASA Science Mission directorate
- NASA [NAS5-26555]
- NASA Office of Space Science [NNX09AF08G]
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- U.S. Government [NAG W-2166]
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1517367] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1255419] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We analyze K2 light curves for 794 low-mass (1 greater than or similar to M-* greater than or similar to 0.1M(circle dot)) members of the approximate to 650 Myr old open cluster Praesepe and measure rotation periods (P-rot) for 677 of these stars. We find that half of the rapidly rotating greater than or similar to 0.3 M-circle dot stars are confirmed or candidate binary systems. The remaining greater than or similar to 0.3 M-circle dot fast rotators have not been searched for companions, and are therefore not confirmed single stars. We previously found that nearly all rapidly rotating greater than or similar to 0.3 M-circle dot stars in the Hyades are binaries, but we require deeper binary searches in Praesepe to confirm whether binaries in these two co-eval clusters have different P-rot distributions. We also compare the observed P-rot distribution in Praesepe to that predicted by models of angular-momentum evolution. We do not observe the clear bimodal P-rot distribution predicted by Brown for >0.5 M-circle dot stars at the age of Praesepe, but 0.25-0.5 M-circle dot stars do show stronger bimodality. In addition, we find that >60% of early M dwarfs in Praesepe rotate more slowly than predicted at 650 Myr by Matt et al., which suggests an increase in braking efficiency for these stars relative to solar-type stars and fully convective stars. The incompleteness of surveys for binaries in open clusters likely impacts our comparison with these models since the models only attempt to describe the evolution of isolated single stars.
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