J/MNRAS/520/6245       Dynamical age Tucana-Horologium            (Galli+, 2023)

Dynamical age of the Tucana-Horologium young stellar association. Galli P.A.B., Miret-Roig N., Bouy H., Olivares J., Barrado D. <Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 520, 6245-6255 (2023)> =2023MNRAS.520.6245G 2023MNRAS.520.6245G (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
ADC_Keywords: Clusters, open ; Stars, nearby ; Radial velocities ; Proper motions ; Parallaxes, trigonometric ; Optical Keywords: stars: formation - stars: kinematics and dynamics - Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics - open clusters and associations: individual: Tucana-Horologium - solar neighbourhood Abstract: The Tucana-Horologium association is one of the closest young stellar groups to the Sun and despite the close proximity its age is still debated in the literature. We take advantage of the state-of-the-art astrometry delivered by the third data release of the Gaia space mission combined with precise radial velocity measurements obtained from high-resolution spectroscopy to investigate the dynamical age of the association. We perform an extensive traceback analysis using a combination of different samples of cluster members, metrics to evaluate the minimum size of the association in the past and models for the galactic potential to integrate the stellar orbits back in time. The dynamical age of 38.5+1.6-8.0Myr that we derive in this paper is consistent with the various age estimates obtained from isochrone fitting in the literature (30-50Myr) and reconciles, for the first time, the dynamical age of the Tucana-Horologium association with the age obtained from lithium depletion (∼40Myr). Our results are independent from stellar models and represent one more step towards constructing a self-consistent age scale for the young stellar groups of the Solar neighbourhood based on the 3D space motion of the stars. Description: Properties of the Tucana-Horologium stars and radial velocities derived in this study. File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file tablea2.dat 126 90 Properties of Tuc-Hor stars tablea1.dat 101 496 Radial velocities derived in this paper -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: I/355 : Gaia DR3 Part 1. Main source (Gaia Collaboration, 2022) Byte-by-byte Description of file: tablea2.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 7 A7 --- --- [GaiaDR3] 8- 26 I19 --- GaiaDR3 Source identifier from Gaia-DR3 catalogue 28- 39 F12.8 deg RAdeg Right ascension (ICRS) at Ep=2016.0 41- 51 F11.7 deg DEdeg Declination (ICRS) at Ep=2016.0 53- 59 F7.3 mas/yr pmRA Proper motion in right ascension 61- 65 F5.3 mas/yr e_pmRA Proper motion uncertainty in right ascension 67- 73 F7.3 mas/yr pmDE Proper motion in declination 75- 79 F5.3 mas/yr e_pmDE Proper motion uncertainty in declination 81- 86 F6.3 mas plx Parallax 88- 92 F5.3 mas e_plx Parallax uncertainty 94- 98 F5.2 km/s RV1 ?=- Radial velocity (Gaia-DR3) 100-104 F5.2 km/s e_RV1 ?=- Radial velocity uncertainty (Gaia-DR3) 108-112 F5.2 km/s RV2 ?=- Radial velocity (this work) 115-118 F4.2 km/s e_RV2 ?=- Radial velocity uncertainty (this work) 120 A1 --- Flag1 [01] Binary flag (0=single; 1=binary) (G1) 122 A1 --- Flag2 [01] Sample flag (0=rejected; 1=accepted) (G2) 124 A1 --- Flag3 [01] Control sample 1 (0=rejected; 1=accepted) (G2) 126 A1 --- Flag4 [01] Control sample 2 (0=rejected; 1=accepted) (G2) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: tablea1.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 7 A7 --- --- [GaiaDR3] 8- 26 I19 --- GaiaDR3 Source identifier from Gaia-DR3 catalogue 28- 39 F12.8 deg RAdeg Right ascension (ICRS) at Ep=2016.0 41- 51 F11.7 deg DEdeg Declination (ICRS) at Ep=2016.0 53- 59 F7.1 d MJD Modified Julian date 63- 67 F5.2 km/s RV Radial velocity 69- 72 F4.2 km/s e_RV Radial velocity uncertainty 74- 77 F4.2 km/s s_RV Radial velocity scatter 79- 81 I3 --- SNR Signal-to-noise of the spectrum 83- 93 A11 --- PID Programme identifier 95- 99 A5 --- Inst Instrument 101 A1 --- Flag [01] Binary flag (0=single; 1=binary) (G1) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Global notes: Note (G1): Flag as follows: 0 = single 1 = binary Note (G2): Flag as follows: 0 = rejected 1 = accepted -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgements: Phillip Galli, phillip.ab.galli(at)gmail.com History: 06-Mar-2023: on-line version 10-Jun-2024: in table A2, explanations of RV1 and RV2 where interverted, now correct.
(End) Phillip Galli [NAT, Brazil], Patricia Vannier [CDS] 23-Feb-2023
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