The AB Doradus moving group

B. Zuckerman; Inseok Song; M. S. Bessell

doi:10.1086/425036

The AB Doradus moving group

B. Zuckerman^*, Inseok Song, M. S. Bessell

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Abstract

From radio to X-ray wavelengths, AB Doradus has been an intensively studied star. We have identified ∼30 nearby star systems, each with one or more characteristics of youth, that are moving through space together with AB Dor. This diverse set of ∼50 million year old star systems is the comoving, youthful group closest to Earth. The group's nucleus is a clustering of a dozen stars ∼20 pc from Earth that includes AB Dor itself. The AB Dor moving group joins the previously known and somewhat younger and more distant Tucana/Horologium and TW Hydrae associations and the β Pictoris moving group as excellent laboratories for investigations of forming planetary systems.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	L65-L68
Journal	Astrophysical Journal
Volume	613
Issue number	1 II
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1086/425036
Publication status	Published - 20 Sept 2004

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