Description
We present 105 stellar rotation periods in the young cluster IC 348, 75 of which are new detections, increasing the total number of known periods in this cluster to 143. The period distribution resembles that seen in the heart of the Orion Nebula cluster by Herbst and colleagues. Stars estimated to be less massive than 0.25M_{sun}_ show a unimodal distribution of fast rotators (P~1-2days) and a tail of slower rotators, while stars estimated to be more massive than 0.25M_{sun}_ show a bimodal distribution with peaks at 2 and 8-days. We combine all published rotation periods in IC 348 with Spitzer mid-IR (3.6, 4.5, 5.8, and 8.0um) photometry, an unprecedentedly efficient and reliable disk indicator, in order to test the disk-braking paradigm.
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