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New Membership Criteria For 437 Flare Stars in the Pleiades

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

G. Szécsényi-Nagy
Affiliation:
Eötvös University, Department of Astronomy, Budapest, Hungary szena@ludens.elte.hu
E. Schilbach
Affiliation:
Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany eschilbach@aip.de, shirteuaip.de and rdscholz@aip.de
S. Hirte
Affiliation:
Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany eschilbach@aip.de, shirteuaip.de and rdscholz@aip.de
R.-D. Scholz
Affiliation:
Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany eschilbach@aip.de, shirteuaip.de and rdscholz@aip.de

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Most of the flare stars (FSs) discovered in that field are very faint and are missing from all previously published lists of Pleiades cluster members. Reliable membership probabilities (MPs) were only determined for one third of these objects while the rest were supposed to be more or less probable members with a few exceptions. A recent proper motion survey of that field (Schilbach et al. 1995) based on plates taken with the Tautenburg Schmidt telescope and extended to an area of 16.5 square degrees provided new cluster MPs and also photometric data even for a number of the lowest luminosity stars (in fact the faintest object measured has V = 18.26). Of the 520 known FSs in the field 437 (85%) were successfully identified, their J2000.0 coordinates, high precision proper motion components and apparent photographic R magnitudes (and for the majority of them their V and B magnitudes too) determined. Based on these data new cluster MPs have been deduced which show that a considerable number (40%) of the so called Pleiades FSs are not members of that cluster at all. This conclusion follows the tendency already found: when we involve more and more faint FSs into the investigations the percentage of non-members monotonically increases (cf. Haro et al. 1982 and references therein).

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II. Joint Discussions
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1998

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