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Description
We intended to compile the most complete catalogue of bona fide members and candidate members of the beta Pictoris association, and to measure their rotation periods and basic properties from our own observations, from public archives, and exploring the literature. We have carried out a multi-observatories campaign to get our own photometric time series and collected all archived public photometric data time series for the stars in our catalogue. Each time series was analyzed with the Lomb-Scargle and CLEAN periodograms to search for the stellar rotation periods. The measured rotational properties have been complemented with detailed information on multiplicity, membership, and projected rotational velocity available in the literature and discussed star by star. We have measured the rotation periods of 112 out of 117 among bona fide members and candidate members of the beta Pictoris association and, whenever possible, also luminosity, radius, and inclination of the stellar rotation axis. This represents to date the largest catalogue of rotation periods of any young loose stellar association. We have provided an extensive catalogue of rotation periods together with other relevant basic properties useful to explore a number of open issues such as the causes of spread of rotation periods among coeval stars, the evolution of angular momentum, the lithium-rotation connection, among others.
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