Revised ages for stars in the solar neighbourhood

Abstract

New ages are computed for the stars from the Edvardsson et al. (1993) data set. The revised values are systematically larger toward older ages (t>4 Gyr), while they are slightly lower for t<4 Gyr. A similar, but considerably smaller trend is present when the ages are computed with the distances based on Hipparcos parallaxes. The resulting age-metallicity relation has a small, but distinct slope of ~ em0.07 dex/Gyr. Tables 3\to8 are only available in electronic form at the CDS via anonymous ftp to cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (130.79.128.5) or WWW at URL http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/Abstract.html