Description
The so-called lithium depletion boundary (LDB) provides a secure and independent tool for deriving the ages of young open clusters. In this context, our goal is to determine membership for a sample of 147 photometrically selected candidates of the young open cluster IC 4665 and to use confirmed members to establish an age based on the LDB. Employing the FLAMES multi-object spectrograph on VLT/UT2, we have obtained intermediate-resolution spectra of the cluster candidates. The spectra were used to measure radial velocities and to infer the presence of the LiI 670.8nm doublet and H{alpha} emission.
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