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Nearby Young Moving Groups: Statistical Methods and Challenges for Assigning Membership

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2016

L. Malo
Affiliation:
Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, 65-1238 Mamalahoa Hwy, Kamuela Hawaii, 96743, USA. email: malo@cfht.hawaii.edu Institut de Recherche sur les Exoplanetes (iREx), Universite de Montreal, Departement de Physique, C.P. 6128 Succ. Centre-ville, Montreal, QC H3C 3J7, Canada.
J. Gagne
Affiliation:
Institut de Recherche sur les Exoplanetes (iREx), Universite de Montreal, Departement de Physique, C.P. 6128 Succ. Centre-ville, Montreal, QC H3C 3J7, Canada.
R. Doyon
Affiliation:
Institut de Recherche sur les Exoplanetes (iREx), Universite de Montreal, Departement de Physique, C.P. 6128 Succ. Centre-ville, Montreal, QC H3C 3J7, Canada.
D. Lafreniere
Affiliation:
Institut de Recherche sur les Exoplanetes (iREx), Universite de Montreal, Departement de Physique, C.P. 6128 Succ. Centre-ville, Montreal, QC H3C 3J7, Canada.
E. Artigau
Affiliation:
Institut de Recherche sur les Exoplanetes (iREx), Universite de Montreal, Departement de Physique, C.P. 6128 Succ. Centre-ville, Montreal, QC H3C 3J7, Canada.
L. Albert
Affiliation:
Institut de Recherche sur les Exoplanetes (iREx), Universite de Montreal, Departement de Physique, C.P. 6128 Succ. Centre-ville, Montreal, QC H3C 3J7, Canada.
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Young associations, being sparsely populated and relatively close to the Sun, their members are found all over the sky. In the Solar Neighborhood, young moving groups are found within 100 pc with ages ranging from 5 to 120 Myr. While known members of these groups were identified mostly through the Hipparcos data, only the most massive members have been fully characterized so far, and defined the core members. In the last decades, several new candidate members have been identified, using different approaches. Based on the global properties of the core members (kinematics and over luminosity), those methods used several criteria to establish the membership, from qualitative manner to quantitive methods using reduced chi-squared or membership probability. A full confirmation of the membership for those numerous candidates requires radial velocity and parallax measurements to confirm their kinematics, age-dating indicator measurement to assess their youth and multiplicity follow-up to rule out binary objects. In this proceeding, we summarize a general recipe to assign membership, describe the numerous challenges for assigning membership, and end with a discussion on the appropriateness and reliability of the BANYAN I and II tools to assess membership.

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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2016 

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