The Sco-Cen Rotation Catalogue - SCRC

We use SuperWASP time-series photometry to extract rotation periods for 189 candidate members of the Sco-Cen complex and verify that 162 of those are members of the classic Sco-Cen subgroups of Upper Scorpius (US), Upper Centaurus-Lupus (UCL), and Lower Centaurus-Crux (LCC). This study provides the first measurements of rotation periods explicitly for large samples of pre-main-sequence (pre-MS) stars spanning the UCL and LCC subgroups.

Our final sample of 157 well-characterized pre-MS stars spans ages of ~10-20Myr, spectral types of ~F3-M0, and masses of M~=0.3-1.5 M_{sun}_^N^. For this sample, we find a distribution of stellar rotation periods with a median of P_rot_~=2.4-days, an overall range of 0.2<P_rot_<8-days, and a fairly well-defined mass-dependent upper envelope of rotation periods. This distribution of periods is consistent with recently developed stellar angular momentum evolution models.