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Friday, August 26, 2011

Song et al. 2001 Review

Ages of A-Type Vega-Like Stars

purpose: Determine the age of A-type stars using evolutionary tracks in log (Teff) - log(g) space.



  • Teff and g values come from uvby data from Stromgren 1963 and Crawford and Mander 1966
  • because of oblation, faster stars look cooler than they should
  • this sets the age estimates off by an average of 40%
  • used the rotation correction from Figueras & Blasi 1998
  • for A stars > A4, the A4 correction was used
  • errors come from vsini rather than v and errors in log(g)
  • evolutionary tracks come from Schaller 1992
  • stars under the 100 Myr isochrone = 50 Myr
  • 12 stars overlap with DEBRIS target list

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