The Gaia-ESO Survey: lithium depletion in the Gamma Velorum cluster and inflated radii in low-mass pre-main-sequence stars

RDJ and RJJ acknowledge support from the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). Based on data products from observations made with European Southern Observatory (ESO) Telescopes at the La Silla Paranal Observatory under programme ID 188.B-3002. These data products have been processed by the Cambridge Astronomy Survey Unit (CASU) at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, and by the FLAMES/UVES reduction team at the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)/Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri. These data have been obtained from the Gaia-ESO Survey Data Archive, prepared and hosted by the Wide Field Astronomy Unit, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, which is funded by the STFC. This publication makes use of data products from the TwoMicron All-Sky Survey, which is a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation. This work was partly supported by the European Union FP7 programme through European Research Council (ERC) grant number 320360 and by the Leverhulme Trust through grant RPG-2012- 541. We acknowledge the support from the INAF and Ministero dell’ Istruzione, dell’ Universita’ e della Ricerca (MIUR) in the ` form of the grant ‘ Premiale VLT 2012’. This research was partially supported by the INAF through a PRIN-2014 grant. The results presented here benefit from discussions held during the Gaia-ESO workshops and conferences supported by the European Science Foundation (ESF) through the Gaia Research for European Astronomy Training (GREAT) Research Network Programme.

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