- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/118/2839
- Title:
- BV photometry of NGC 1866
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/118/2839
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a new deep (down to V~24) photometry of a wide region (~6'x6') around the Large Magellanic Cloud globular cluster NGC 1866. Our sample is much larger (by more than a factor of 3) than any previous photometry and with a main sequence (MS) that may be considered complete, down to at least 3 mag below the brightest MS star; such an occurrence allows a meaningful and robust comparison with various theoretical scenarios produced by means of models computed with the evolutionary code FRANEC.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/243/492
- Title:
- BV Photometry of NGC 6791
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/243/492
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- CCD BV photometry to V=20.5 of stars in the old open cluster NGC 6791 is presented. Comparison with the theoretical isochrones of VandenBerg gives a cluster age in the range of 10 to 12.5Gyr, and an apparent distance modulus of 13.45mag, adopting a solar metallicity. This cluster is only marginally younger than Palomar 12, which is the youngest globular cluster known. A search for short-period variables in the cluster field led to the discovery of only one low-amplitude variable, probably belonging to the FK Com-type stars. A very blue star was detected which may be an extremely young white dwarf formed in the cluster.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/113/1045
- Title:
- BV photometry of NGC 3680
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/113/1045
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A new CCD BV color-magnitude diagram (CMD) has been derived for the intermediate age open cluster NGC 3680. The quality of photometry coupled with the best-to-date knowledge of cluster memberships allows for a detailed isochrone fit to the CMD. The theoretical isochrones have been constructed using the Yale Rotating Evolution Code (YREC) in its non-rotating mode and the OPAL opacities (circa 1991). Four sets of isochrones have been calculated: one for the standard stellar model calibrated to the Sun and three others for models with different amounts of convective overshoot at the edge of the convective core, namely, 0.15, 0.20, and 0.25H_p_, where H_p_ is the pressure scale height at the core edge. All four sets of theoretical isochrones were adjusted to an adopted distance modulus of V_0_-M_V_=10.20 and reddening E(B-V)=0.075 which leads to ages of 1.3+/-0.15, 1.5+/-0.15, 1.6+/-0.15, and 1.7+/-0.15Gyr, respectively The uncertainties in age mainly reflect a subjective decision in differentiating a good fit from a poorer one The model with a convective overshoot of 0.20H_p_ seems to yield the best fit to the sharply curved upper main sequence. Hence, the estimated age of NGC 3680 is 1.6+/-0.15Gyr. The adopted overshoot parameter ostensibly is uncertain by +/-0.05H_p_. For comparison, the same stellar models with overshoot of 0.25H_p_ were fit to the color-magnitude diagram of the cluster NGC 752, which is similar in age and composition to NGC 3680 The age estimate for NGC 752 is 1.6+/-0.2Gyr, assuming V_0_-M_V_=8.20 and E(B-V)=0.030 for the cluster.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/431/1189
- Title:
- BV photometry of NGC 6822 variables
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/431/1189
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Deep B, V time-series photometry obtained with the ESO Very Large Telescope has been used to identify variable stars in the dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 6822. We surveyed a 6.8x6.8 arcmin area of the galaxy and detected a total number of 390 candidate variables with the optimal image subtraction technique (Alard C., 2000A&AS..144..363A). Light curves on a magnitude scale were obtained for 262 of these variables. Differential flux light curve are available for the remaining sample. We were able to determine periods and pulsation characteristics for 69 out of the 262 variables with light curves in magnitude scale, they include: 18 RR Lyrae stars (16 ab-type and 2 c-type), 45 Cepheids and 6 binary systems. We also tentatively calibrated 8 of the 128 objects with light curves on a differential flux scale on the assumption that they are ab-type RR Lyrae stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/350/679
- Title:
- BV photometry of NGC 300 variables
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/350/679
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have performed a search for variable stars in the Sculptor Group spiral galaxy NGC 300 using wide-field multi-epoch BV photometry up to a limiting magnitude V~23. Apart from the Cepheid variables in this galaxy already reported in an earlier paper by Pietrzynski et al. (2002, Cat. <J/AJ/123/789>) and the variable blue supergiants reported by Bresolin et al. (2002ApJ...567..277B), we have identified 26 additional periodic variables, with periods ranging from 0.2 to 190d, and 121 slow variables. Two of these newly discovered variables are Galactic foreground stars (one of them is a W UMa system), and three correspond to previously identified Wolf-Rayet stars. 16 stars are new Cepheids, and the other objects span a huge range in colours and represent a mixture of different types of luminous variables.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/483/253
- Title:
- BV photometry of NGC 2099 variables
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/483/253
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Rotation and solar-type magnetic activity are closely related to each other in main-sequence stars of G or later spectral types. The presence and level of magnetic activity depend on star's rotation, and rotation itself is strongly influenced by strength and topology of the magnetic fields. Open clusters represent especially useful targets to investigate the connection between rotation and activity. The open cluster NGC 2099 has been studied as a part of the RACE-OC project (Rotation and ACtivity Evolution in Open Clusters), which is aimed at exploring the evolution of rotation and magnetic activity in the late-type members of open clusters of different ages. We collected time series CCD photometric observations of this cluster in January 2004, and we determined the presence of periodicities in the flux variation related to the stellar rotation by Fourier analysis. We investigate the relations between activity manifestations, such as the light curve amplitude, and global stellar parameters. We have discovered 135 periodic variables, 122 of which are candidate cluster members. Determination of rotation periods of G- and K-type stars has allowed us to better explore the evolution of angular momentum at an age of about 500Myr. In our analysis, we have also identified 3 new detached eclipsing binary candidates among cluster members. A comparison with the older Hyades cluster (~625Myr) shows that the newly-determined distribution of rotation periods is consistent with the scenario of rotational braking of main-sequence spotted stars as they age. However, a comparison with the younger M34 cluster (~200Myr) shows that the G8-K5 members of these clusters have the same rotation period distribution. That is, G8-K5 members in NGC 2099 seem to have experienced no significant braking in the age range from ~200 to ~500Myr. Finally, NGC 2099 members have a smaller level of photospheric magnetic activity, as measured by light curve amplitude, than in younger stars of the same mass and rotation, suggesting that the activity level also depends on some other age-dependent parameters.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/561/A106
- Title:
- BV photometry of 6 SMC stellar clusters
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/561/A106
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Stellar clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) are useful probes to study the chemical and dynamical evolution of this neighbouring dwarf galaxy, enabling inspection of a large period covering over 10Gyr. The main goals of this work are the derivation of age, metallicity, distance modulus, reddening, core radius and central density profile for six sample clusters, in order to place them in the context of the Small Cloud evolution. The studied clusters are: AM 3, HW 1, HW 34, HW 40, Lindsay 2, and Lindsay 3, where HW 1, HW 34, and Lindsay 2 are studied for the first time. Optical Colour-Magnitude Diagrams (V, B-V CMDs) and radial density profiles were built from images obtained with the 4.1m SOAR telescope, reaching V~23. The determination of structural parameters were carried out applying King profile fitting. The other parameters were derived in a self-consistent way by means of isochrone fitting, which uses the likelihood statistics to identify the synthetic CMDs that best reproduce the observed ones. Membership probabilities were determined comparing the cluster and control field CMDs. Completeness and photometric uncertainties were obtained performing artificial star tests. The results confirm that these clusters (except HW 34, identified as a field fluctuation) are intermediate-age clusters, with ages between 1.2Gyr (Lindsay 3) and ~5.0Gyr (HW 1). In particular HW 1, Lindsay 2, and Lindsay 3 are located in a region that we called West Halo, where studies on ages and metallicity gradients are still lacking. Moreover Lindsay 2 was identified as a moderately metal-poor cluster with [Fe/H]=-1.4+/-0.2dex, lower than expected from the age-metallicity relation by Pagel & Tautvaisiene (1998MNRAS.299..535P). We also found distances varying from ~53 to 66kpc, compatible with the large depth of the SMC.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AcA/59/193
- Title:
- BV photometry of stars in NGC 6866
- Short Name:
- J/AcA/59/193
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the discovery of 19 variable stars and two blue stragglers in the field of the open cluster NGC 6866. Three of the variable stars we classify as delta Sct, two as g Dor, four as WUMa, two as ellipsoidal variables, and one as an eclipsing binary. Seven stars show irregular variability. Two of the pulsators, delta Sct star NGC 6866-29 and gamma Dor star NGC 6866-21, are multiperiodic.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/131/407
- Title:
- BV photometry of stars in the LMC
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/131/407
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We observed a field in the disk of the LMC on two consecutive nights in search of rapid variable stars. We found two pulsating stars of type RRab and Scuti and four binary stars; among the latter we found one sdB or cataclysmic variable below the LMC blue main sequence and three very close binary systems on the main sequence.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/549/578
- Title:
- BV photometry of Trumpler 14 and 16
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/549/578
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- H-R diagrams are presented for the very young galactic clusters Trumpler 14 and Trumpler 16, which are the two most populous clusters in the region of vigorous star formation surrounding {eta} Carinae. Point spread function photometry of UBV CCD images is presented down to V~19 for over 560 stars in Tr 16 and 290 stars in Tr 14. We have also obtained similar data for a local background field. After determining cluster membership through proper motions from a previous work, we find that the reddening of cluster members is significantly lower than that of the local background stars. Thus, we are able to use individual reddenings to identify likely members at far deeper levels than possible with proper motions. This work has revealed a significant population of pre-main-sequence (PMS) stars in both clusters. The location of the PMS stars in the H-R diagram indicates that the theoretical "stellar birthline" of Palla & Stahler (1990ApJ...360L..47P, follows the locus of stars far better than that of Beech & Mitalas (1994ApJS...95..517B). Comparison with both pre- and post-main-sequence isochrones also reveals that although intermediate-mass stars have been forming continuously over the last 10Myr, the high-mass stars formed within the last 3Myr. There is no evidence that the formation of the intermediate-mass stars was truncated by the formation of the high-mass stars.
