- 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.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/105/938
- Title:
- BV photometry of NGC 1850 (in LMC)
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/105/938
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In this paper we examine the age and internal dynamics of the young binary LMC cluster NGC 1850 using BV CCD images and echelle spectra of 52 supergiants.
- 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/AJ/97/1360
- Title:
- BV photometry of Palomar 12
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/97/1360
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present broadband B,V photometry for 1154 stars in the field of the Galactic globular cluster Palomar 12, based upon direct CCD images obtained with the Canada-France-Hawaii 3.6m and Cerro Tololo 4m telescopes. The overall zero points of our V magnitudes and B-V colors appear to be known to about +/-0.02mag and +/-0.01mag, and our magnitude- and color-scale errors are probably controlled to <0.01mag. Pal 12's main sequence shows an excess fringe of stars along its red edge which are probably binaries; the CM diagram also contains a small number of probable blue stragglers. The principal result of this paper is that the color-magnitude diagram of Pal 12 is anomalous, in the sense that we cannot fake all of its principal sequences lie near or between those of the well studied and presumably typical Galactic globular clusters 47 Tucanae and M5, even though it lies near or between them in overall heavy-element abundance. The simplest explanation is that Pal 12 is younger than the other two clusters by some 25-30%. Other explanations are also possible, although perhaps somewhat harder to believe. This result greatly strengthens the possibility that age differences are responsible, at least in part, for the anomalous properties of some of the outer-halo globular clusters. Spectroscopic indications are that Pal 12's chemical abundances should also strongly resemble those of the two Galactic globular clusters NGC 288 and NGC 362, which have also been claimed to show age differences in comparison with M5. However, attempts to derive ages for these clusters relative to M5 and Pal 12 are inconclusive, possibly due to some inconsistencies within the available data.
- 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/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.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASP/97/753
- Title:
- BVR CCD photometry on NGC 1777
- Short Name:
- J/PASP/97/753
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present photographic (B and V) and CCD (B, V, and R) photometry of stars in the remote LMC cluster NGC 1777, and integrated UBV photometry of the inner part of the cluster. A comparison of the results from the two techniques reveals large (~0.20m) systematic differences which we attribute to the difficulty of faint photometry. The photographic calibration depended on images produced by a Racine wedge, while the CCD calibration was accomplished in a manner analogous to photoelectric photometry. The stellar photometry provides a C-M diagram to V=21.5 which includes an evolved main sequence and a well-populated giant branch. A variety of methods, including comparisons of the observations to two sets of isochrones, allows us to estimate the cluster age as 0.9+/-0.2x10^9^ years. However we are only able to estimate the metallicity ([Fe/H]) crudely as -0.7+/-0.5. The C-M diagrams of the field in three regions near NGC 1777 indicate the presence of stars in the age range 1x10^9^ to >=3x10^9^ years, although we are unable to discern whether a mixture of two or more distinct populations or a continuous distribution of field-star ages is responsible for this spread.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/317/448
- Title:
- BVRHalpha photometry of NGC 1818
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/317/448
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present B,V,R,Halpha CCD photometry and astrometry of Be stars in NGC 1818, its small neighbouring cluster NGC 1818B, and the surrounding field down to V = 18 mag. Our Be star identifiers conform to IAU specifications. For a description of the UBVRI and Halpha systems, see e.g. <GCPD/08> and <GCPD/55>
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/208
- Title:
- BVRI CCD photometry in the field of M 31
- Short Name:
- II/208
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Deep BVRI CCD photometry was performed on a 1 square degree region of M31. The observations were made between September 12 and September 27, 1990, using the McGraw-Hill 1.3m telescope at the Michigan-Dartmouth-MIT (MDM) observatory at Kitt Peak. The catalogue has typical completion limits of 22.3Bmag, 22.2Vmag, 22.2Rmag and 20.9Imag. Photometric accuracy is about 2% at Vmag=19. The final astrometric calibrations take into account the systematic error discovered in the Berkhuijsen etal (1987) catalog (Magnier etal 1993). They are in the J2000 system and are eventually tied to the HST Guide Star Catalog. The final photometric calibrations are tied via the NGC 206 region to photometry taken at the Michigan-Dartmouth-MIT (MDM) 1.3m in September and October 1993. These are tied to the Landolt (1992) system of standard stars, and are in the Johnson-Kron-Cousins system (BVRcIc).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/BASI/30.911
- Title:
- BVRI CCD photometry of 4 galaxy clusters
- Short Name:
- J/other/BASI/30.
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have used the 2.3-meter Vainu Bappu Telescope to perform CCD imaging of X-ray-selected poor clusters of galaxies. Our sample consists of four X-ray luminous clusters in the Einstein Observatory Extended Medium Sensitivity Survey (EMSS) and noted by Gioia & Luppino (1994ApJS...94..583G) to be optically less rich than Abell clusters. The sample spans a redshift range of 0.08<=z<=0.22. We have assembled catalogs of galaxies detected in the cluster fields to a magnitude limit m_V_~22. This paper describes the data reduction performed on the CCD images, the methods used to construct the extended object catalogs, the photometric calibrations, and some understanding of their completeness and contamination.
