Investigtating Moving-group Photometry and Understanding Lightcurve Structures (IMPULS) will be studying rotation rates of stars in the young nearby Beta Pic Moving Group.
The Beta Pictoris Moving Group (BPMG) is a nearby (~50 pc) association of young (~20 million years old) stars at a critical stage of stellar evolution, when circumstellar disks are dissipating and, as a result, the distribution of angular momentum in the system is actively changing. This project aims to investigate the relationship between infrared excess, stellar rotation, and other youth indicators in BPMG members to better understand disk dispersal timescales and angular momentum evolution in young stars. The results of this study will contribute to ongoing efforts to characterize young stellar populations and inform models of how stars shed their disks and evolve toward the main sequence, with indirect implications for planet formation.
Caltech, Pasadena, California
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