We present new CCD photometry in the b and y colours of the Stroemgren uvby system for 310 stars in a 13'x13' field centered on the intermediate-age open cluster NGC 3680. Careful cross-checks indicate that previously published BV photometry of NGC 3680 is affected by random and/or systematic errors precluding its use in critical comparison with theoretical isochrone computations. Detailed notes on several individual stars are given. In addition, we present =~400 new photoelectric radial-velocity observations of 109 stars obtained with the CORAVEL scanner during the period 1988-1994. These data allow substantially complete identification of member and non-member stars in the field, and of spectroscopic binaries in both groups. Rotational velocities have also been derived for the programme stars, and our velocity variability criteria for stars of all rotations are described. The further astrophysical discussion of the data, including the definition of radial-velocity membership criteria, theoretical isochrone fitting, and the dynamical state of the cluster and the origin of its "bimodal turnoff", will appear in a separate paper (Nordstroem et al. 1996).
We present the results of a study of streaming motion of galaxy clusters around the Giant Void (RA~13h, DE~40{deg}, z~0.11 and a diameter of 150/hMpc) in the distribution of rich Abell clusters. We used the Kormendy relation as a distance indicator taking into account galaxy luminosities. Observations were carried out in Kron-Cousins R_c_ system on the 6m and 1m telescopes of SAO RAS. For 17 clusters in a spherical shell of 25/hMpc in thickness centered on the void no significant diverging motion (expected to be generated by the mass deficit in the void) has been detected. This implies that cosmological models with low {Omega}_m_ are preferred. To explain small mass underdensity inside the Giant Void, a mechanism of void formation with strong biasing is required.
R-band surface photometry is presented for 171 late-type dwarf and irregular galaxies. For a subsample of 46 galaxies B-band photometry is presented as well. We present surface brightness profiles as well as isophotal and photometric parameters including magnitudes, diameters and central surface brightnesses. Absolute photometry is accurate to 0.1 mag or better for 77% of the sample. For over 85% of the galaxies the radial surface brightness profiles are consistent with published data within the measured photometric uncertainty. For most of the galaxies in the sample HI data have been obtained with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope. The galaxies in our sample are part of the WHISP project (Westerbork HI Survey of Spiral and Irregular Galaxies), which aims at mapping about 500 nearby spiral and irregular galaxies in HI. The availability of HI data makes this data set useful for a wide range of studies of the structure, dark matter content and kinematics of late-type dwarf galaxies.
As a part of a CCD survey of galaxies belonging or projected onto the Coma and Hercules Superclusters and to the A262, Virgo and Cancer clusters, we present isophote maps and photometric profiles of 87 galaxies (85 taken with the V, 25 with the B and 3 with the U Johnson filters). For the objects in common we compare our results with those in the RC3.
Continuing a CCD survey of galaxies belonging or projected onto the Coma and Hercules Superclusters, to the A262 and Cancer clusters, we present isophote maps and photometric profiles in the Johnson system of 111 galaxies (67 in the V and B bands, 42 only in V, 2 only in B) obtained with the 2.1m telescope at San Pedro Martir (Baja California, Mexico).
CCD UBVIc imaging photometry was carried out in the fields of the open clusters Pismis 8 and Pismis 13, located in the Vela-Puppis region in our Galaxy. MK spectral types have also been determined for a number of stars located in the fields of these two clusters which were used to secure membership among the brightest stars. Since our photometry goes to a fainter limit than previous studies we could provide better reddening, distance and age determinations. Both clusters are located close to the edge of the local arm in the third quadrant. Pismis 8 is a cluster about 5-7My old located at 2000pc from the Sun, while Pismis 13 was found at 2750pc with a probable age of about 100My. The estimate of the slopes of the mass functions in both cases yielded x=1.7 and x=2.1 for Pismis 8 and 13 respectively.
We present results of a study that combines UBVI photometry, MK spectral classification and proper motions in the area of the, up to now unknown, open cluster Ruprecht 58 at the Puppis region.
We present V magnitudes, (B-V) and (U-B) colours of close visual double star components, and their differences as well as separations and position angles of 40 visual double stars. The common properties of the members of this sample are the small angular separation {rho}, which is less than 7", and the common spectral type of the primaries, which are of G-type. The observations made with the Bessel U, B and V filters, while the astrometry was performed in the V filter only. For the observations, the CCD camera attached to the Cassegrain focus of the 90 cm Dutch telescope, at La Silla, Chile, had been used. From the analysis of the data we concluded that from the sample of the fourty double stars observed seven proved to be physical pairs, while the rest must have common origin components.
The h and chi Per "double cluster" is examined using wide-field (0.98x0.98{deg}) CCD UBV imaging supplemented by optical spectra of several hundred of the brightest stars. The UBV photometry was obtained from observations with the 0.9m telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory using the Mosaic CCD camera (0.43arcsec/pix) on 1999 February 3. Conditions were photometric with a seeing about 1.3arcsec. The Mosaic camera consists of eight individual SITe 2048x4096 CCD chips arranged in two rows of four to produce a final image equivalent to 8192x8192 pixels (098x098{deg}) but with modest (35-50pix) gaps. Our imaging data set contains short (0.5s in V and B and 2s in U), medium (2s in V and B and 10s in U), and long (100s in V and B and 300s in U) integrations, each consisting of five dithered exposures that were combined to fill in gaps between the eight chips. Analyzing the data near the cluster nuclei results in identical reddenings E(B-V) (0.56+/-0.01), distance moduli (11.85+/-0.05), and ages (12.8+/-1.0Myr) for the two clusters. In addition, the initial mass function slope for each of the cluster nuclei is found to be quite normal for high-mass stars ({Gamma}=-1.3+/-0.2), indistinguishable from a Salpeter value. The masses of the two clusters are found to be 3700M_{sun}_ and 2800M_{sun}_ for h and {chi} when integrating the present-day mass function from 1 to 120M_{sun}_.
