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Wilson, John C.; Weaver, Benjamin A.; Stassun, Keivan G.; Siverd, Robert J.; Schneider, Donald P.; Rodriguez, Joseph E.; Pepper, Joshua; Nidever, David L.; Majewski, Steven R.; Johnson, Jennifer A.; Jackson, Kelly M.; Frinchaboy, Peter M.; Fleming, Scott W.; Allende Prieto, C.; Cottaar, Michiel; Cargile, Phillip A.; Hearty, Frederick R.; Bender, Chad F.; Deshpande, Rohit; Mahadevan, Suvrath; Terrien, R. C.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 782, Issue 2, article id. 61, 12 pp. (2014).
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We have used Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III (SDSS-III) Apache Point
Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) radial velocity
observations in the near-infrared H-band to explore the membership of
the nearby (86.7 ± 0.9 pc) open cluster Coma Berenices (Melotte
111), concentrating on the poorly populated low-mass end of the main
sequence. Using SDSS-III APOGEE radial velocity measurements, we confirm
the membership of eight K/M dwarf members, providing the first confirmed
low-mass members of the Coma Berenices cluster. Using R ~ 2000 spectra
from IRTF-SpeX, we confirm the independently luminosity classes of these
targets, and find their metallicities to be consistent with the known
solar mean metallicity of Coma Berenices and of M dwarfs in the solar
neighborhood. In addition, the APOGEE spectra have enabled measurement
of vsin i for each target and detection for the first time of the
low-mass secondary components of the known binary systems Melotte 111
102 and Melotte 111 120, as well as identification of the previously
unknown binary system 2MASS J12214070+2707510. Finally, we use
Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope photometry to measure photometric
variability and rotation periods for a subset of the Coma Berenices
members.
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Stellar spectroscopy allows us to determine the properties and chemical compositions of stars. From this information for stars of different ages in the Milky Way, it is possible to reconstruct the chemical evolution of the Galaxy, as well as the origin of the elements heavier than boron, created mainly in stellar interiors. It is also possible to
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