Publications
A full description of the purpose and goals of WOCS appears
in the following paper:
Mathieu, R. D. 2000, "The WIYN Open Cluster Study," in Stellar Clusters and
Associations: Convection, Rotations, and Dynamos, ASP Conference Series, edited
by Pallavicini, Micela, & Sciortino (postscript paper)
A vision of the future of WOCS is described in the following
paper:
Sarajedini, A., Mathieu, R. D., & Platais, I. 2003, "WIYN Open Cluster
Study: The Next Generation," in The Future of Small
Telescopes In The New Millennium.'' Volume III - Science in the Shadows of
Giants, Edited by Terry D. Oswalt. Astrophysics and Space Science Library,
Volume 289, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2003., p.257 (postscript paper)
The following papers represent the WOCS series of scientific
papers to date:
von
Hippel, T. A., & Sarajedini, A. 1998, "WIYN Open Cluster. I. Deep Photometry
of NGC 188," AJ, 116, 1789 (postscript paper and
figures) (photometric data
and readme file)
Sarajedini,
A., von Hippel, T. A., Kozhurina-Platais, V., & Demarque, P. 1999, "WIYN
Open Cluster Study. II. UBVRI CCD Photometry of the Open Cluster NGC 188," AJ,
118, 2894 (photometric data
and readme file)
Sarajedini,
A., 1999, "WIYN Open Cluster Study. III. The Observed Variation of the Red Clump
Luminosity and Color with Metallicity and Age," AJ, 118, 2321
Yong,
H., Demarque, P., & Yi, S. 2000, "WIYN Open Cluster Study. IV. Mass Loss
on the Horizontal Branch: an application to NGC 6791," ApJ, 539, 928
Barrado
y Navascues, D., Deliyannis, C. P., & Stauffer, J. R. 2000, "WIYN Open
Cluster Study. V. Lithium Depletion and Metallicity in G and K Dwarfs of the
Open Cluster M35," ApJ, 549, 452
Sills,
A., & Deliyannis, C. P. 2000, "WIYN Open Cluster Study. VI. Interpretive
Models of Light-Element Depletion from M67 Subgiants, ApJ, 544, 944
Platais,
I., Kozhurina-Platais, V., Barnes, S., Girard, T. M., Demarque, P., van Altena,
W. F., Deliyannis, C. P. & Horch, E. 2000, "WIYN Open Cluster Study.
VII. NGC 2451A and the Hipparcos Distance Scale," AJ, 122, 1485
Platais,
I., Kozhurina-Platais, V., Girard, T. M., van Altena, W. F., Klemola, A. R.,
Stauffer, J. R., Armandroff, T. E., Mighell, K. J., Dell'Antonio, I., Falco,
E. E., & Sarajedini, A. 2002, "WIYN Open Cluster Study. VIII. The Geometry
and Stability of the NOAO CCD Mosaic Imager," AJ, 124, 601
Stassun,
K., van den Berg, M., Mathieu, R.D., & Verbunt, F. 2002, "WIYN Open Cluster
Study. IX. Photometric Variablity in the Open Cluster M67. II. General Survey",
A&A, 382, 899
Grocholski,
A. J. & Sarajedini, A. 2002, "WIYN Open Cluster Study. X. The K-Band
Magnitude of the Red Clump as a Distance Indicator," AJ, 123, 1603
von
Hippel, T., Steinhauer, A., Sarajedini, A., & Deliyannis, C. P. 2002, "WIYN
Open Cluster Study XI: WIYN 3.5m Deep Photometry of M35 (NGC 2168)", AJ,
124, 1555
Deliyannis,
C. P., Steinhauer, A., & Jeffries, R. D. 2002, "Discovery of the Most
Lithium-Rich Dwarf: Diffusion In Action," ApJ, 577, L39(WIYN Open Cluster
Study XII)
Barnes, S. A. 2003, "On the Rotational Evolution of Solar- and Late-Type Stars,
Its Magnetic Origins, and the Possibility of Stellar Gyrochronology," ApJ, 586,
464 (WIYN Open Cluster Study XIII)
Barnes, S. A. 2003, "A Connection between the Morphology of the X-Ray Emission
and Rotation for Solar-Type Stars in Open Clusters," ApJ, 586, L145 (WIYN Open
Cluster Study XIV)
Kafka,
S., & Honeycutt, K. 2003, "WOCS XV - Photometric Monitoring
of Open Clusters: New Variables in NGC 188," AJ, 126, 276
Grocholski,
A. & Sarajedini,
A. 2003, "WIYN Open Cluster Study. XVI.
Optical/Infrared Photometry and Comparisons with Theoretical Isochrones," MNRAS,
345, 1015
Platais,
I., Kozhurina-Platais, V., Mathieu, R. D., Girard, T. M. & van Altena, W.
F. 2003, "WIYN Open Cluster Study. XVII. Astrometry and Membership to V=21
in NGC 188," AJ, 126, 2922
Mathieu,
R. D., Meibom, S., & Dolan, C. J. 2004, "The Tidal Circularization
Cutoff Period of the Old Open Cluster NGC 188," ApJL, 602, L121, (WIYN
Open Cluster Study XVIII)
Sarajedini,
A., Brandt, K., Grocholski, A., & Tiede, G. P. 2004, "WIYN Open Cluster
Study. XIX. Main Sequence Fitting Distances to Open Clusters Using V-K Color-Magnitude
Diagrams," AJ, 127, 991
Kafka,
S., Gibbs II, D. G., Henden, A., & Honeycutt, R. K. 2004, "WOCS XX
- Photometric Monitoring of the Galactic Cluster NGC 6939," AJ, 127, 1622
Steinhauer,
A., & Deliyannis, C. P. 2004, "WIYN/Hydra Detection of Lithium Depletion
in F Stars of the Young Open
Cluster M35 and Implications for the Development of the Lithium Gap," ApJL,
614, L65 (WIYN Open Cluster Study XXI)
Meibom,
S. & Mathieu, R. D. 2005, "A Robust Measure of Tidal Circularization
in Coeval Binary Populations: The Solar-Type Spectroscopic Binary Population
in the Open Cluster M35," ApJ, 620, 970 (WIYN Open Cluster Study XXII)
von
Hippel, T., Jefferys, W. H., Scott, J., Stein, N., Winget, D. E., DeGennaro,
S., Dam, A., & Jeffery, E. 2006, " Inverting Color-Magnitude Diagrams
to Access Precise Star Cluster Parameters: A Bayesian Approach," ApJ, 645,
1436 (WIYN Open Cluster Study XXIII)
Hole et al. WOCS XXIV
James et al. WOCS XXV
Platais,
I., Melo, C., Mermilliod, J.-C., Kozhurina-Platais, V., Fulbright, J., Mendez,
R.A., Altmann, M., Sperauskas, J. 2006, "WIYN Open Cluster Study. XXVI.
Improved kinematic membership and spectroscopy of IC 2391", A&Ap, 461,
509
Kafka et al. WOCS XXVII
Giampapa,
M. S., Hall, J. C., Radick, R. R., & Baliunas, S. L. 2006, "A Survey
of Chromospheric Activity in the Solar-Type Stars in the Open Cluster M67,"
ApJ, 651, 444 (WIYN Open Cluster Study XXVIII)
Meibom,
S., Mathieu, R. D., Stassun, K. G. 2006, "An Observational Study of Tidal
Synchronization in Solar-Type Binary Stars in the Open Clusters M35 and M34,"
ApJ, 653, 621 (WIYN Open Cluster Study XXIX)
Jeffery, E. J.;
von Hippel, T.; Jefferys, W. H.; Winget, D. E.;
Stein, N.; DeGennaro, S. 2007, "New Techniques to Determine Ages
of Open Clusters Using White Dwarfs," ApJ, 658, 391 (WIYN Open Cluster
Study XXX)
Meibom, S., Mathieu,
R. D., & Stassun, K. G. 2007, "The Effect of Binarity on Stellar Evolution
- Beyond the Reach of Tides," ApJL, 665, L55 (WIYN Open Cluster Study XXXI)
Geller, A. M., Mathieu, R. D., Harris, H. C., & McClure, R. D. 2008, "WIYN
Open Cluster Study XXXII: Stellar Radial Velocities in the Old Open Cluster
NGC 188", AJ, 135, 2264
Yadav, R.K.S., Bedin, L.R., Piotto, G., Anderson, J., Cassisi, S., Villanova,
S., Platais, I., Pasquini, L., Momany, Y., Sagar, R. 2008, "Ground-based
CCD astrometry with wide-field imagers II. A star catalog for M67: WFI@2.2m
MPG/ESO astrometry, FLAMES@VLT radial velocities", A&A, 484, 609 (WIYN
Open Cluster Study XXXIII)
Meibom, S., Mathieu, R. D., & Stassun, K. G. "Stellar Rotation in
M35: Mass-Period Relations, Spin-Down Rates, and Gyrochronology," in press
(WOCS XXXIV)
Platais, I., Melo, C., Fulbright, J.P., Kozhurina-Platais, V., Figueira, P.,
Barnes, S., Mendez, R.A. 2008, "Trumpler 20 - an old and rich open cluster",
MNRAS, submitted (WIYN Open Cluster Study XXXV)
Geller, A. M., Mathieu, R. D., Harris, H. C., & McClure, R. D., "WIYN
Open Cluster Study. XXXVI. Spectroscopic Binary Orbits in NGC 188", AJ,
submitted
These papers have appeared in conference proceedings and
represent progress reports on WOCS research:
Kozhurina-Platais, V., Platais, I., Demarque, P., Yong, H., Lee, J., &
Sarajedini, A. 1999, "WOCS: A Test of Convective Overshoot and the Age of NGC
752," in Stellar Clusters and Associations: Convection, Rotations, and Dynamos,
in press (postscript paper)
von Hippel, T. A., Kozhurina-Platais, V., Platais, I., Demarque, P., &
Sarajedini, A. 1999, "The WIYN Open Cluster Study: A New Color-Magnitude Diagram
for M35 - a Twin of the Pleiades?" in Stellar Clusters and Associations: Convection,
Rotations, and Dynamos, in press (postscript paper)
Papers
presented at the 196th AAS meeting in Rochester, NY.
Papers
presented at the 197th AAS meeting in San Diego, CA.
Papers
presented at the 198th AAS meeting in Pasadena, CA.
Papers
presented at the 199th AAS meeting in Washington, DC.
Papers
presented at the 200th AAS meeting in Albuquerque, NM.
Papers
presented at the 201st AAS meeting in Seattle, WA
Papers
presented at the 202nd AAS meeting in Nashville, TN
Papers presented at the 203rd
AAS meeting in Atlanta, GA
Papers presented at the 204th
AAS meeting in Denver, CO
Papers presented at the 205th
AAS meeting in San Diego, CA
Papers presented at the 206th
AAS meeting in Minneapolis, MN
Papers presented at the 207th
AAS meeting in Washington, DC