Group Members
Current criteria for membership in the moving group is based on the stars' motion in space. This motion can be determined from the proper motions and parallax (or distance) to the stars and radial velocities. The Hipparcos satellite has recently greatly improved both the proper motion and parallax estimates of nearby bright stars, refining the study of this and other moving groups .
Based on their distances (measured with Hipparcos) and apparent magnitude, the absolute magnitude can be used to estimate the age of the stars. The stars in the moving group appear to have a common age of about 500 million years.
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