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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 648, 期 1, 页码 580-590出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/505782
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line : profiles; open clusters and associations : individual ( Berkeley 86, IC 1805, IC 2395, IC 2944, NGC 457, NGC 869, NGC 884; NGC 1502, NGC 2244, NGC 2362, NGC 2384, NGC 2422; NGC 2467, NGC 3293, NGC 4755, NGC 6193, NGC 7160, Trumpler 14, Trumpler 16); stars : early-type; stars : rotation
Open clusters offer us the means to study stellar properties in samples with well-defined ages and initial chemical composition. Here we present a survey of projected rotational velocities for a large sample of mainly B-type stars in young clusters to study the time evolution of the rotational properties of massive stars. The survey is based on moderate-resolution spectra made with the WIYN 3.5 m and CTIO 4 m telescopes and Hydra multi-object spectrographs, and the target stars are members of 19 young open clusters with an age range of approximately 6-73 Myr. We made fits of the observed lines He I lambda lambda 4026, 4387, 4471, and Mg II lambda 4481, using model theoretical profiles to find projected rotational velocities for a total of 496 OB stars. We find that there are fewer slow rotators among the cluster B-type stars relative to nearby B stars in the field. We present evidence consistent with the idea that the more massive B stars (M > 9 M circle dot) spin down during their main-sequence phase. However, we also find that the rotational velocity distribution appears to show an increase in the numbers of rapid rotators among clusters with ages of 10 Myr and higher. These rapid rotators appear to be distributed between the zero age and terminal age main-sequence locations in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, and thus only a minority of them can be explained as the result of a spin-up at the terminal age main sequence due to core contraction. We suggest instead that some of these rapid rotators may have been spun up through mass transfer in close binary systems.
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