Some of the Galactic outer halo globular clusters are excellent tools to probe gravitational theories in the regime of weak accelerations. The measurement of the line-of-sight velocity dispersion among stars in these clusters will differentiate between the validity of Newtonian dynamics (low velocity dispersion) and the possibility of modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) or dark matter dominated globular clusters (high velocity dispersion). In this paper, the properties of probable member stars of the three best-case gravitational theory-testing clusters AM 1, Pal 3 and Pal 14 are presented. The member selection is based on VLT photometry in Johnson BV. The positions of the stars were determined with an accuracy of the order of <=0.2", allowing their direct use for follow-up spectroscopy. The distance, reddening, age and metallicities of the clusters were estimated from isochrone fitting. Furthermore, improved structural parameters, like central coordinates, ellipticity, half-light radius, King model core and tidal radius, are presented.
BV photometry of HD 37824, HD 181809, and HD 217188
Short Name:
J/AJ/129/1669
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We have obtained spectroscopy and photometry of three chromospherically active, single-lined spectroscopic binaries: HD 37824 (V1149 Ori), HD 181809 (V4138 Sgr), and HD 217188 (AZ Psc). * HD 37824 has a circular orbit with a period of 53.57 days. Its primary is a K0 III star, while the secondary is likely a G or K dwarf. * HD 181809 has an orbit with a period of 13.04667 days and a low eccentricity of 0.040. The primary has a spectral type of K0 IIIIV, and its secondary is probably an M dwarf. * The orbit of HD 217188 has a period of 47.1209 days and a moderately high eccentricity of 0.470. The spectral type of the primary is K0III, while the secondary is likely an M dwarf. All three systems are estimated to have near solar iron abundances. Photometric observations spanning 15-16 years for all three stars yield mean photometric periods of 53.12, 59.85, and 90.89 days for HD 37824, HD 181809, and HD 217188, respectively.
The tables shows the photometry and colour index for the observed galaxy, with the image parameter SHAR. This parameter is a measure of the difference between the observed width of the object and the psf model.
The field of the moderately old open cluster LW 55 in the outer parts of the Large Magellanic Cloud disk was monitored for detection of short-period variable stars over two nights. Eight variables were found; all but one (a detached eclipsing binary) are small-amplitude ({Delta}V<=0.1mag) pulsating stars of the {delta} Scuti, SX Phoenicis, or Doradus type. The BV color-magnitude diagram extends down to the solar-type stars at V=24 (M_V_~5.2). The cluster age is estimated at 1.5Gyr for Z=0.004 ([Fe/H]=-0.67); the surrounding stellar field is older, with an age greater than 4Gyr.
File table2 contains coordinates (J2000) and B,V magnitudes and B-V colours with corresponding errors of 4450 stars in a 20'x20' region centered on the globular cluster M 71 (NGC 6838). The limiting magnitude of the catalogue is about V=18.0 The observations were made in 1995 at Calar Alta Observatory.
The first large-format CCD color-magnitude diagram (CMD) in the B and V passbands is presented for the Galactic globular cluster M53 (NGC 5024). The observations consist of 40 pairs of B and V CCD frames with FWHM<1.2" in a pattern covering a 12'x13' region of M53. These frames were used to produce color-magnitude data for more than 20,000 stars from the tip of the red giant branch (RGB) to about 2 mag below the main-sequence turnoff (V~22). The CMD reveals a classic example of a metal-poor stellar system, with the horizontal branch (HB) predominantly blueward of the RR Lyrae instability strip and the relatively steep RGB. The blue HB of M53 does not show the blue tail phenomenon that is observed in M15. The relative age dating based on the color difference between the turnoff and the base of RGB reveals no significant age difference ({Delta}t<1Gyr) between M53 and M92. We have discovered 114 new blue straggler stars (BSSs) in the field of M53. The analysis of bright (V<19.39) BSSs clearly shows a bimodal radial distribution with a high frequency in the inner and outer regions but a distinct dip in the intermediate region. The distribution is similar to that found in M3, a globular cluster with a similar central density and concentration.
Broad band photometry (in Johnson B and V) has been obtained in a region (34'x34') at the North-Eastern quadrant of M31 over 5 years (1999-2003) at the Isaac Newton Telescope (La Palma, Spain). The data, containing more than 250 observations per filter, have been reduced by means of the so-called difference image analysis technique and the DAOPHOT program. A catalog with 236238 objects with photometry in both B and V passbands has been obtained. The catalog is the deepest (V<25.5mag) obtained so far in the studied region and contains 3964 identified variable stars, with 437 eclipsing binaries and 416 Cepheids.
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.
New BV CCD photometry for the bright stars in cluster fields centered on the core of NGC 7099 is presented. The morphology of the LF though the turnoff region is similar to that found in other metal-poor clusters in that the relative number of turnoff to giant stars is lower than predicted by canonical models. Comparisons with evolutionary sequences of horizontal branch stars suggest a reddening E(B-V)=0.06 and a distance modulus (m-M)_V=14.83. Isochrone fits to [Fe/H]=-2.03, [O/Fe]=+0.70 models are consistent with an age of at least 14 Gyr. The model LF for this age accurately predicts the brightness of the tip of the red giant branch (RGB) as well as the location of the break which signals the transition from the base of the RGB to the main sequence. There is an indication that the evolutionary pause on the RGB, which manifests itself as a bump in the LF, occurs one magnitude fainter than the models predict. The excess of HB stars with respect to giants is confirmed and implies a helium abundance Y=0.28, which is higher than that found in other metal-poor globular clusters from the R method. From a comparison with the metal-rich, blue horizontal branch cluster NGC 288, it is argued that age cannot by itself be the solution to the second parameter problem.
