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H_alpha emission fluxes and lithium abundances of low mass stars in the young open cluster IC 4665 | | E.L. Martin
; D. Montes
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8 May 1996 | | Subject: | astro-ph | | Abstract: | As part of a long term effort to understand pre-main sequence Li burning, we have obtained high resolution spectroscopic observations of 14 late type stars (G0--M1) in the young open cluster IC~4665. Most of the stars have ha filled-in and li absorption, as expected for their young age. From the equivalent widths of ha emission excess (obtained using the spectral subtraction technique) and the lii feature, we have derived ha emission fluxes and photospheric Li abundances. The mean Li abundance of IC~4665 solar-type stars is log N(Li)=3.1; the same as in other young clusters ($alpha$~Per, Pleiades) and T Tauri stars. Our results support the conclusions from previous works that PMS Li depletion is very small for masses $sim$ 1 msun . Among the IC 4665 late-G and early K-type stars, there is a spread in Li abundances of about one order of magnitude. The Li-poor IC~4665 members have low ha excess and vsin{it i}$le$10. Hence, the Li-activity-rotation connection which has been clearly established in the Pleiades also seems to hold in IC 4665. One M-type IC~4665 star that we have observed does not show Li, implying a very efficient Li depletion as observed in $alpha$~Per stars of the same spectral type. The level of chromospheric activity and Li depletion among the low mass stars of IC 4665 is similar to that in the Pleiades. In fact, we note that the Li abundance distributions in several young clusters ($alpha$~Per, Pleiades, IC~2391, IC~4665) and in post T Tauri stars are strikingly similar. This result suggests that ha emission and Li abundance not well correlated with age for low mass stars between 20 and 100 Myr old. We argue that a finer age indicator, the ``LL-clock", would be the luminosity at | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/9605038 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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