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ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
Volume 613, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201731881
Keywords
stars: abundances; stars: low-mass; stars: rotation; open clusters and associations: individual: Melotte 22 (Pleiades); stars: solar-type
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- Programme National de Physique Stellaire of CNRS/INSU
- Agence Nationale pour la Recherche program [ANR 2011 Blanc SIMI 5-6 020 01]
- Spanish grant [ESP2015-65712-C5-1-R]
- CONICYT [MEC 80160028]
- W. M. Keck Foundation
- Spanish MICINN [AyA2011-24052]
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Context. The evolution of lithium abundance over a star's lifetime is indicative of transport processes operating in the stellar interior. Aims. We revisit the relationship between lithium content and rotation rate previously reported for cool dwarfs in the Pleiades cluster. Methods. We derive new LiI 670.8 nm equivalent width measurements from high-resolution spectra obtained for low-mass Pleiades members. We combine these new measurements with previously published ones, and use the Kepler K2 rotational periods recently derived for Pleiades cool dwarfs to investigate the lithium-rotation connection in this 125 Myr-old cluster. Results. The new data confirm the correlation between lithium equivalent width and stellar spin rate for a sample of 51 early K-type members of the cluster, where fast rotating stars are systematically lithium-rich compared to slowly rotating ones. The correlation is valid for all stars over the (J-K-s) color range 0.50-0.70 mag, corresponding to a mass range from about 0.75 to 0.90 M-circle dot, and may extend down to lower masses. Conclusions. We argue that the dispersion in lithium equivalent widths observed for cool dwarfs in the Pleiades cluster reflects an intrinsic scatter in lithium abundances, and suggest that the physical origin of the lithium dispersion pattern is to be found in the pre-main sequence rotational history of solar-type stars.
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