@inproceedings{1836f6db8439426f80f865011106b4ca,
title = "Stellar rotation bifurcation caused by tidal locking in the open cluster NGC 2287?",
abstract = "We present a detailed analysis of the projected stellar rotational velocities of the well-separated double main sequence (MS) in the young, ∼200 Myr-old Milky Way open cluster NGC 2287 and suggest that stellar rotation may drive the split MSs in NGC 2287. We find that the observed distribution of projected stellar rotation velocities could result from a dichotomous distribution of stellar rotation rates. We discuss whether our observations may reflect the effects of tidal locking affecting a fraction of the cluster's member stars in stellar binary systems. The slow rotators are likely stars that initially rotated rapidly but subsequently slowed down through tidal locking induced by low-mass-ratio binary systems. However, the cluster may have a much larger population of short-period binaries than is usually seen in the literature, with relatively low secondary masses.",
keywords = "galaxies: star clusters: general, open clusters and associations: individual: NGC 2287, stars: rotation",
author = "Weijia Sun and Chengyuan Li and Licai Deng and {De Grijs}, Richard",
year = "2020",
month = mar,
day = "11",
doi = "10.1017/S1743921319006628",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781108482509",
series = "Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union",
publisher = "Cambridge University Press (CUP)",
number = "S351",
pages = "228--232",
editor = "Angela Bragaglia and Melvyn Davies and Alison Sills and Enrico Vesperini",
booktitle = "Star clusters: from the Milky Way to the early universe",
address = "United Kingdom",
note = "351st symposium of the International Astronomical Union ; Conference date: 27-05-2019 Through 31-05-2019",
}