The Monitor project: rotation of low-mass stars in the open cluster M34

• Published in: Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Vol. 370; no. 2; pp. 954 - 974
• Main Authors: Irwin, Jonathan, Aigrain, Suzanne, Hodgkin, Simon, Irwin, Mike, Bouvier, Jerome, Clarke, Cathie, Hebb, Leslie, Moraux, Estelle
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.08.2006; Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press (OUP): Policy P - Oxford Open Option A
• Subjects: Astronomy; open clusters and associations: individual: M34; Sciences of the Universe; Stars & galaxies; stars: rotation; surveys; techniques: photometric; Time series; surveys; open clusters and associations: individual: M34; techniques: photometric; stars: rotation; photometric -surveys -stars; rotation -open clusters and associations; individual; techniques; M34

We report on the results of a V- and i-band time-series photometric survey of M34 (NGC 1039) using the Wide Field Camera (WFC) on the Isaac Newton Telescope (INT), achieving better than 1 per cent precision per data point for 13 ≲i≲ 17. Candidate cluster members were selected from a V versus V−I col...