Can variability account for apparent age spreads in OB association colour-magnitude diagrams?

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 363, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1389-1397

  Burningham, Ben ^a   Naylor, Tim ^a   Littlefair, S P ^a,b   Jeffries, R D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Open clusters and associations: individual: Cep OB3b; Open clusters and associations: individual: Orionis; Stars: formation; Stars: low mass, brown dwarfs; Stars: pre mainsequence; Stars: variables: other

Indexed keywords

COLOR; STARS;

OB ASSOCIATION; OPEN CLUSTER AND ASSOCIATION: INDIVIDUAL: CEP OB3B; OPEN CLUSTER AND ASSOCIATION: INDIVIDUAL: Σ ORIONIS; OPEN CLUSTERS AND ASSOCIATION: INDIVIDUAL; STAR: PRE-MAINSEQUENCE; STAR: VARIABLE: OTHER; STARS FORMATION; STARS: LOW-MASS BROWN DWARFS; STARS: VARIABLES; STARS: PRE-MAIN SEQUENCE;

PHOTOMETRY;

EID: 27744554551     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09535.x     Document Type: Article

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