Solar analog rotations from Kepler & Gaia

We address this by investigating the evolutionary status based on Gaia Data Release 2 parallaxes and photometry for more than 30000 Kepler stars with rotation period measurements. Many of these are subgiants and should be excluded in future work on dwarfs.

We particularly investigate a 193-star sample of solar analogs and report newly determined rotation periods for 125 of these. These include 54 stars from a prior sample, of which we can confirm the periods for 50. The remainder are new, and 10 of them longer than a solar rotation period, suggesting that Sun-like stars continue to spin down on the main sequence past solar age.