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