• Title of article

    Are pre-MS stars older than we thought?

  • Author/Authors

    Tim Naylor، نويسنده , , N.J. Mayne، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2009
  • Pages
    1
  • From page
    763
  • To page
    763
  • Abstract
    We present a consistent age ordering for young clusters and groups determined using the contraction of stars through their pre-main-sequence phase. We compare these with ages derived from the evolution of the upper main-sequence stars, and find the upper MS ages are older by a factor 1.5 to 2. We show that increasing the binary fraction and number of equal-mass binaries amongst the O-stars compared to the rest of the MS cannot remove this discrepancy.
  • Keywords
    methods: statistical , stars: formation , open clusters and associations: general
  • Journal title
    Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
  • Serial Year
    2009
  • Journal title
    Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
  • Record number

    674889