- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/107/39
- Title:
- IC 2714 UBV photometry
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/107/39
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- UBV photoelectric photometry for 204 stars in the field of the southern open cluster IC 2714 supplemented by DDO and Washington photometry and Coravel radial velocities of 14 probable red giants, are presented. The analysis of the photometric and kinematical data yielded 132 probable members and 13 possible members. IC 2714 contains one variable star and 11 red giant members, one of them being a spectroscopic binary. Two red giants are either binaries or non-members. The reddening across the cluster is slightly variable, the mean value is E(B-V)=0.36. The cluster distance-modulus is 11.68, corresponding to a distance of 1320(+/-120)pc and the mean radial velocity is -14.1+/-0.3km/s. The age, determined by fitting isochrones with core overshooting turned out to be log(t)=8.5, corresponding to 3.2 10^8 yr. A metal abundance [Fe/H]=-0.12+/-0.09 relative to the Sun and other fundamental parameters are determined. The luminosity function of the bright members of IC 2714 in good agreement with that determined by Taff (1974AJ.....79.1280T). For a description of the UBV, DDO and Washington photometric system, see e.g. <GCPD/01>, <GCPD/12> and <GCPD/45>
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/361/929
- Title:
- IC 4651 uvby photometry
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/361/929
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- New accurate CCD photometry in the u, v, b and y bands of the Stroemgren system filters has been obtained for 17640 stars to approximately. V=20mag in a approximately 21' x 21' field centered on the intermediate-age open cluster IC 4651. The observations was obtained with the Danish 1.5-m telescope at the European Southern Observatory, La Silla, Chile. Table 1 contains information about the Date, Night, Filter, Exposure time, Airmass, CCD rotation angle, and RA- , DE-offsets for all 89 frames. Table 2 gives cross-references between the MEI-system (this paper) and the Lindoff (1972A&AS....7..231L, IC 4651 NNN), Eggen (1971ApJ...166...87E, Cl* IC 4651 Egg NN), Anthony-Twarog & Twarog (1987AJ.....94.1222A, Cl* IC 4651 AT 1-NNN, Cl* IC 4651 AT 2-NN), and Anthony-Twarog et al. (1988AJ.....95.1453A, Cl* IC 4651 AMC I-NNN, Cl* IC 4651 AMC NNNN) identification numbers. Table 3 is the final catalogue of the new Stroemgren uvby photometry, ordered by MEI identification number. For each star, it gives the MEI number, Global CCD x- and y-coordinates, J2000 coordinates , the new y, b, v, and u magnitudes on the standard system, number of detections of the individual stars, and their mean errors.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/623/A22
- Title:
- IC 4996 Vilnius phot. and Gaia DR2 astrometry
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/623/A22
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The open cluster IC 4996 in Cygnus and its vicinity are investigated applying two-dimensional photometric classification of stars measured in the Vilnius seven-color photometric system. Cluster members are identified by applying distances based on the Gaia DR2 parallaxes and the point vector diagram of the Gaia DR2 proper motions. For some B-type stars, spectroscopic MK types are also obtained from the Asiago spectra and collected from the literature. New parameters of the cluster are derived. Th interstellar extinction A(v) covers a wide range of values, from 1.3 to 2.4mag, the mean value in the central part of the cluster is 1.8mag. The cluster distance is 1915+/-110pc, and its age is within 8-10Myr. The cluster exhibits a long sequence from early B to G stars, where stars cooler than B8 are in the pre-main-sequence stage. The plot of the extinction versus distance shows a steep rise of A(v) up to 1.6mag at 700-800pc, which is probably related to dust clouds at the edge of the Great Cygnus Rift. The next extinction rise by an additional 0.8 mag at d>=1.7kpc is probably related to the associations Cyg OB1 and Cyg OB3. The cluster IC 4996 does not belong to the Cyg OB1 association, which is located closer to the Sun, at 1682+/-116pc. It seems likely that the cluster and the surrounding O-B stars have a common origin with the nearby association Cyg OB3 since the Gaia data show that these stellar groups are located at a similar distance.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/BaltA/19/63
- Title:
- IC 361 Vilnius photometry
- Short Name:
- J/BaltA/19/63
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- CCD photometry in the eight-color Vilnius + I system for 7250 stars down to I=19.6mag has been obtained in the 20'x26' field of the open cluster IC361 in Camelopardalis. The catalog of 1420 stars down to V~18.5mag is presented. It contains the coordinates, V magnitudes, seven color indices, quantitative photometric spectral types, absolute magnitudes and distances. The interstellar extinction is found to be non-uniform across the field, with the values of A_V_ in the range 1.9 to 2.4mag. The distribution of distance moduli of individual stars shows that the cluster is located as far as, or just beyond, the Perseus spiral arm.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/159/95
- Title:
- IC 1369 Vilnius photometry and Gaia DR2 astrometry
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/159/95
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The open cluster IC1369, located in Cygnus close to the galactic equator at the 89.6{deg} longitude, and its vicinity are investigated by applying two-dimensional photometric classification of stars down to V=19mag measured in the Vilnius seven-color photometric system. Employing the Gaia DR2 coordinates, parallaxes, and proper motions, 143 cluster members are found having cluster membership probabilities >=0.75. The hottest stars of the evolved main sequence are of spectral class B9. Distances to the cluster, determined by two methods based on the Gaia parallaxes, are 3280 and 3370pc with an uncertainty of 400-500pc. Employing the physical HR diagram with the coordinates logL/L_{sun}_ versus logTeff and the Padova isochrones, the cluster age is found to be between 300 and 350Myr. Among the cluster members we identified six red giants of spectral classes G5-G8 and luminosities II-III, 17 Am stars, one Ap star, and one B5 blue straggler. The extinction shows a steep rise up to ~2.0mag at 300-700pc, caused by the extensions of the dust cloud LDN970 and the Great Cygnus Rift, and up to ~2.5mag at the edge of the Perseus arm at 3.0kpc. The extinction is almost constant between 0.9 and 2.5kpc from the Sun. The average extinction of the cluster members is 2.54mag. A systematic error of color excesses found in the Argonaut calculator results is discussed.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/126/81
- Title:
- IC 2602 VRI photometry
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/126/81
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of VRI photometry of the young open cluster IC 2602. Two 15x15arcmin^2^ fields were observed in February and May 1991 using the 1-m Swope telescope at Las Campanas. Using theoretical isochrones obtained from D'Antona & Mazzitelli (1994ApJS...90..467D), and allowing for observational and other uncertainties, we identify 78 primary candidate members with 12<V<18.5 from their positions on colour-magnitude diagrams. We compare the cluster field with an offset field of similar galactic latitude and estimate the contamination due to background stars to be large, >=50%, as might be expected given its low galactic latitude. We also compare our photometry with that given for the X-ray detected stars of Randich et al. (1995A&A...300..134R) present complimentary narrow band H{alpha} photometry for a subset of the stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/862/33
- Title:
- Improved & expanded membership catalog for NGC752
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/862/33
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The nearby open cluster NGC 752 presents a rare opportunity to study stellar properties at ages >1Gyr. However, constructing a membership catalog for it is challenging; most surveys have been limited to identifying its giants and dwarf members earlier than mid-K. We supplement past membership catalogs with candidates selected with updated photometric and proper-motion criteria, generating a list of 258 members, a >50% increase over previous catalogs. Using a Bayesian framework to fit MESA Isochrones & Stellar Tracks evolutionary models to literature photometry and the Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution data available for 59 cluster members, we infer the age of and distance to NGC 752: 1.34+/-0.06Gyr and 438_-6_^+8^pc. We also report the results of our optical monitoring of the cluster using the Palomar Transient Factory. We obtain rotation periods for 12 K and M cluster members, the first periods measured for such low-mass stars with a well-constrained age >1Gyr. We compare these new periods to data from the younger clusters Praesepe and NGC 6811, and to a theoretical model for angular momentum loss, to examine stellar spin-down for low-mass stars over their first 1.3Gyr. While on average NGC 752 stars are rotating more slowly than their younger counterparts, the difference is not significant. Finally, we use our spectroscopic observations to measure H{alpha} for cluster stars, finding that members earlier than ~M2 are magnetically inactive, as expected at this age. Forthcoming Gaia data should solidify and extend the membership of NGC 752 to lower masses, thereby increasing its importance for studies of low-mass stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/646/A104
- Title:
- Improving the open cluster census. I.
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/646/A104
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The census of open clusters in the Milky Way is in a never-before seen state of flux. Recent works have reported hundreds of new open clusters thanks to the incredible astrometric quality of the Gaia satellite, but other works have also reported that many open clusters discovered in the pre Gaia era may be associations. We aim to conduct a comparison of clustering algorithms used to detect open clusters, attempting to statistically quantify their strengths and weaknesses by deriving the sensitivity, specificity, and precision of each as well as their true positive rate against a larger sample. We selected DBSCAN, HDBSCAN, and Gaussian mixture models for further study, owing to their speed and appropriateness for use with Gaia data. We developed a preprocessing pipeline for Gaia data and developed the algorithms further for the specific application to open clusters. We derived detection rates for all 1385 open clusters in the fields in our study as well as more detailed performance statistics for 100 of these open clusters. DBSCAN was sensitive to 50%-62% of the true positive open clusters in our sample, with generally very good specificity and precision. HDBSCAN traded precision for a higher sensitivity of up to 82%, especially across different distances and scales of open clusters. Gaussian mixture models were slow and only sensitive to 33% of open clusters in our sample, which tended to be larger objects. Additionally, we report on 41 new open cluster candidates detected by HDBSCAN, three of which are closer than 500pc. When used with additional post-processing to mitigate its false positives, we have found that HDBSCAN is the most sensitive and effective algorithm for recovering open clusters in Gaia data. Our results suggest that many more new and already reported open clusters have yet to be detected in Gaia data.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/BaltA/17/1
- Title:
- Infrared photometry in GL490 star-forming region
- Short Name:
- J/BaltA/17/1
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Using the infrared photometry data extracted from the 2MASS, IRAS and MSX databases, 50 suspected young stellar objects (YSOs) are selected from about 37500 infrared objects in the 3x3deg^2^ area with the center at (l,b=142.5,+1.0), in the vicinity of the young stellar object GL 490 in the dark cloud T 942 (Dobashi et al., 2005PASJ...57S...1D, Cat. <VII/244>). The spectral energy distributions between 700nm and 100um suggest that most of the selected objects may be YSOs of classes I and II. In the color-magnitude diagram Ks vs. H-Ks the suspected YSOs occupy an area right of the main sequence what can be interpreted as being caused by the effects of luminosity, interstellar and circumstellar reddening and infrared thermal emission in circumstellar envelopes and disks.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/581/258
- Title:
- Infrared photometry in the Arches Cluster
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/581/258
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present and use new spectra and narrowband images, along with previously published broadband images, of stars in the Arches cluster to extract photometry, astrometry, equivalent width, and velocity information. The data are interpreted with a wind/atmosphere code to determine stellar temperatures, luminosities, mass-loss rates, and abundances. We have doubled the number of known emission-line stars, and we have also made the first spectroscopic identification of the main sequence for any population in the Galactic center.