- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/428/502
- Title:
- UBVI photometry of 7 open clusters
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/428/502
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- New photometric material is presented for six outer disc supposedly old, Galactic star clusters: Berkeley 76, Haffner 4, Ruprecht 10, Haffner 7, Haffner 11 and Haffner 15, which are projected against the rich and complex Canis Major overdensity at 225{deg}<=l<=248{deg}, -7{deg}b<=-2{deg}. This CCD data set, in the UBVI passbands, is used to derive their fundamental parameters, in particular age and distance. Four of the program clusters turn out to be older than 1Gyr. This fact makes them ideal targets for future spectroscopic campaigns aiming at deriving their metal abundances. This, in turn, contributes to increase the number of well-studied outer disc old open clusters. Only Haffner 15, previously considered an old cluster, is found to be a young, significantly reddened cluster, member of the Perseus arm in the third Galactic quadrant. As for Haffner 4, we suggest an age of about half a Gyr. The most interesting result we found is that Berkeley 76 is probably located at more than 17kpc from the Galactic centre, and therefore is among the most peripherical old open clusters so far detected. Besides, for Ruprecht 10 and Haffner 7, which were never studied before, we propose ages larger than 1Gyr. All the old clusters of this sample are scarcely populated and show evidence of tidal interaction with the Milky Way, and are therefore most probably in advanced stages of dynamical dissolution.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/536/A101
- Title:
- UBVI photometry towards (l=314,b=0)
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/536/A101
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The spiral structure of the Milky Way is nowadays receiving renewed attention thanks to the combined efforts of observational campaigns in different wavelength regimes, from the optical to the radio. We start in the paper the exploration of a number of key sectors (line of sights) in the inner Milky Way, where the spiral structure is still poorly known. We search for density enhancements of young stars that might plausibly be associated with spiral structure. To this aim we collect sufficiently wide-field UBVI photometry to allow us to probe in statistical sense the distribution in reddening and distance of young stars in the field. The intensive usage of U-band photometry - although heavily demanding in terms of observational efforts - ensures robust determination of reddening and hence distance for stars of spectral type earlier than A0, which are well-known spiral arm tracers, even though no spectroscopic information are available. The fields we use are large enough to include in most cases well-studied Galactic clusters, which we use as bench-marks to assess the quality and standardisation of the data, and to validate our method. We focus in this paper on the line of sight to the Galactic longitude l=314{deg}, where previous surveys already detected H{alpha} emitters at different standard of rest velocities, and hence distances. The difficulty, however, to translate velocity into distance make predictions on the spiral structure quite vague. First of all, we made exhaustive tests to show that our data-set is in the standard system, and calibrated our method using the two open clusters NGC 5617 and Pismis 19 which happen to be in the field, and for which we found estimates of the basic parameters in full agreement with the literature. We then applied the method to the general field stars and detected signatures of three different groups of stars, evenly distributed across the field of view, at 1.5^+0.5^_-0.2_, 2.5^+0.3^_-0.5_, and 5.1^+1.5^_-1.1_kpc, respectively. These distances are compatible with the location of the nowadays commonly accepted description of the Carina-Sagittarius and Scutum-Crux arms, at heliocentric distance of ~2 an 5kpc, respectively. As a consequence, we consider these groups to be good candidates to trace the location of these two inner arms. In line with previous studies, this investigation demonstrates once again how powerful the use of U-band photometry is to characterize ensembles of young stars, and make predictions on the spiral structure of the Milky Way.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/26/353
- Title:
- UBV observations in globular NGC 1904
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/26/353
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The BV photometric investigation of the Southern globular cluster NGC 1904 was carried out using the 1m telescope of Cerro Las Campanas (CARSO, 2 nights in February 1973 and 2 nights in April 1973), and the 1m telescope at la Silla (ESO, 4 nights in February 1975). The identification of the stars was made by B. Skiff (Lowell Obs.) in October 2010.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/122B
- Title:
- UBV Photoelectric Catalog: data 1953-1985
- Short Name:
- II/122B
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The catalogue collects all UBV photoelectric photometry data published since 1953 to the end of 1985 in the Johnson and Morgan system. In addition, data obtained in closely related systems using UBV filters have also been collected. All the data have been merged, yielding a final catalogue of 136719(*) entries concerning 87267 stars and components. The data have been taken from 1413 (UBV) and 127 (other) references found in 73 different periodicals. Great care has been taken to detect and correct all kinds of errors. (*) Two entries have been deleted in version 'B' of this catalogue The analysis of the data is published in 1987A&AS...71..119M
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/308
- Title:
- UBV photoelectric photometry of Cepheids
- Short Name:
- II/308
- Date:
- 22 Feb 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The catalog contains approximatively 10,000 photoelectric observations of Cepheid variable stars, observed by the authors or derived from published data. The catalog contains data on more than 300 stars; of these approximately 230 can be classified as "well-observed".
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/VI/19
- Title:
- UBV Photoelectric Sequences in SA 92-115
- Short Name:
- VI/19
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The UBV system was originally defined by ten bright standard stars, primarily in the northern sky. These stars are too bright to be used with large telescopes and cannot be reached from southern observatories. This catalog is a careful compilation of data on fainter stars in the equatorial Selected Areas. They are intended as a new set of standards which can be used to define the UBV system at fainter magnitudes in both hemispheres. The stars range in V between 6.0 and 14.9 with most between 9.0 and 13.0.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/541/841
- Title:
- UBV photometry and ages of Trapezium systems
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/541/841
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We sought to determine the maximum age of Trapezium systems by studying possible trapezium systems that were selected independently of their occurrence in H II regions. We started with the unpublished catalog by Allen, Tapia & Parrao (1977RMxAA...3..119A) of all the known visual systems having three or more stars in which the maximum separation is less than 3.0 times the minimum separation. Their catalog has 968 such systems whose most frequent primary type is F, which does not describe young systems. With a CCD on the Kitt Peak 0.9m telescope we obtained UBV frames for 265 systems accessible with our equipment on Kitt Peak. The frames were used to obtain UBV photometry for about 1500 stars with an accuracy of 0.04mag between V=7 and 14mag. Also these frames were used to obtain astrometry with an accuracy of +/-0.015{deg} in position angle and +/-0.01" in separation. For the brightest star in each system we obtained a spectral type to determine the distance and reddening to the system.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/248
- Title:
- UBV photometry and proper motions in M13
- Short Name:
- II/248
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The first epoch plates of 8 globular clusters, available in the plate collection of the Pulkovo Observatory, were taken with the normal astrograph at the end of the last and beginning of this century. These plates had been measured previously by N. Gamalei [1948, IzPul, 141] in order to determine the proper motions of the clusters. From 40 to 62 stars were used for this purpose and these were assumed to be cluster members on the basis of their proximity to the cluster centers. The epoch differences ranged from 30 to 45 years. As this time interval has now increased considerably (by about a factor of two), it is planned to redetermine the proper motions of these clusters, using more precise criteria for the selection of stars belonging to the cluster. In the previous study (N. Gamalei [1948, IzPul, 141]) only a limited number of field reference stars were measured, and as more complete data on the cluster, cluster members and field stars is desirable all the star images on the plates in an area 80'x80' will be measured in the present program. For future studies of the orbits of galactic clusters it is important that the absolute proper motions be on one system and therefore special attention should be devoted to this problem. The present paper is a continuation of an investigation of M13 and deals with the determination of the proper motions and U, B, V magnitudes of separate stars and also a redetermination of the proper motions of the cluster. The U, B, V magnitudes of the majority of 923 stars with measured proper motions were found from plates (table 2) taken with the 2 meter Schmidt telescope at Tautenburg and kindly lent to us by Professor N. Richter. The photoelectric standards as given by Savedoff [1956AJ.....61..254S] (table 7) and also U B V magnitudes of six bright field stars (table 8) observed by Mayer were used for calibration. A comparison of the determined B and V magnitudes of stars within an area of about 10'x10' centered on the cluster with those obtained by other authors indicates that the probable external errors do not exceed +/-0.03mag (table 15). However as the photoelectric magnitudes of fainter field stars were not available, a slight systematic error may be present in the derived magnitudes of these stars. Data on the plates used for the determination of the proper motions were given in Kadla [1963AZh....40..691K]. The relative proper motion of M 13, redetermined on the basis of a larger number of cluster members (80 in all, measured on 4 pairs of plates with a mean epoch difference equal to 61.4 years) is found to be {mu}x=+0.0008", {mu}y=-0.0014" with a probable error of +/-0.0002".
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASP/102/1392
- Title:
- UBV photometry from HK survey. I
- Short Name:
- J/PASP/102/1392
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Photoelectric photometry is presented for a sample of 139 halo stars drawn an extension of the HK (Ca II H & K lines) objective-prism survey of Beers, Preston and Shectmann (1988ApJS...67..461) to the Northern Galactic hemisphere. The candidates for which photometry is reported here were selected to span a wide range of types, but are dominated by stars classified as type AB, A, or "metal-poor" (MP).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AcA/41/167
- Title:
- UBV photometry in Berkeley 32
- Short Name:
- J/AcA/41/167
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- CCD photometry on the UBV and Washington systems, is presented for Be32, a so far unstudied rich open cluster located in the Galactic anticentre. Morphology of cluster and colour-magnitude diagram indicates that it is an old object with age close to ages of NGC 188 and NGC 2243 (about 6Gyr on the scale of VandenBerg isochrones). The cluster reddening is E(B-V)=0.16 and the estimated metallicity is [Fe/H]=-0.37+/-0.05. The apparent distance modulus is between 12.8 and 13.1.
