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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/404/927
- Title:
- UBVRI photometry of NGC 2422
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/404/927
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present UBVRI photometry of the open cluster NGC 2422 (age~10^8^yr) down to a limiting magnitude V=~19. These data are used to derive the Luminosity and Mass Functions and to study the cluster spatial distribution. By considering the color-magnitude diagram data and adopting a representative cluster main sequence, we obtained a list of candidate cluster members based on a photometric criterion.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/NewA/17.160
- Title:
- UBVRI photometry of Stock 18
- Short Name:
- J/other/NewA/17.
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have carried out deep (V~21mag) UBVRI photometric study of the star cluster Stock 18. These along with archival Infrared data have been used to derive the basic cluster parameters and also to derive the basic cluster parameters and also to study the star for formation processes in and around the cluster region. The distance to the cluster is derived as 2.8+/-0.2kpc while its age is estimated as 6.0+/-2.0Myr. Present study indicates that interstellar reddening is normal in the direction of the cluster. The mass function slope is found to be -1.37+/-0.27 for the mass range 1<M/M_{sun}_<11.9. There is no evidence found for the effect of mass segregation in main-sequence stars of the cluster. A young stellar population with age between 1-2Myr have been found in and around the cluster region. The presence of IRAS and AKARI sources with MSX intensity map also show the youth of the Sh2-170 region.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/339/44
- Title:
- UBVRI photometry of Tr 14, Tr 15 and Tr 16
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/339/44
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a large-scale imaging photometric study of the stellar population in the northern part of NGC 3372 in the UBVRIJHK bands with a wavelength coverage from 0.33 to 2.5{mu}m. The observations were made at Las Campanas Observatory. The optical CCD mosaics cover an area approximately of 32x22arcmin^2^ centred between the Tr 14 and Tr 16 clusters. The survey was extended to cover 12x12arcmin^2^ at the location of Tr 15. Near-infrared NICMOS3 mosaics covering the areas occupied by these clusters were obtained in the JHK photometric bands. By means of star counts in V, the centres and sizes of each cluster were redetermined yielding: Tr 14 (r=264"), Tr 15 (r=320") and Tr 16 (r=320"). It was confirmed that Cr 232 is not a true cluster. Multicolour optical photometry was obtained for 4152 stars. Two colour and colour-magnitude diagrams are presented and analysed for each individual cluster and compared to those of the field. We confirm the widespread variations in the dust density and also in the dust size distribution leading to widely different values of A_V_and reddening laws towards Tr 14 and Tr 16. No spatial patterns were found for these variations. Spectroscopic parallaxes were computed and the results are consistent with all three clusters being at a similar distance from the Sun (<d>=2.7kpc) but the data have shown very large scatter in both A_V_and d. Analyses of the extinction-corrected colour-magnitude diagrams suggest ages between 3 and 60 million years for the stars in Tr 15 and between less than 1 and 6 million years for Tr 14 and Tr 16. A small number of infrared-excess stars were found in Tr 16 and Tr 14 but not in Tr 15. The distribution of stars in Tr 14 seen in the near-infrared suggests that this cluster is partially embedded in a molecular cloud. This molecular cloud extends towards the west reaching its highest density, marked by a CO peak emission, some three arcmin to the south-west of the nucleus of Tr 14. The rich ultraviolet field created by the Tr 14 stars ionizes most of the visible HII region in its vicinity and most of the radio HII region Car I. Evidence is found of ionization fronts leading into the molecular cloud, which appears to be "wrapping" the Tr 14 cluster. Deep JHK images of the Car I region reveal the presence of an embedded stellar population illuminating a large infrared reflection nebula. It includes at least one O9-B0 star associated with an ultracompact HII region. Nebulous 2.2{mu}m emission from three of the mid-infrared sources in the Tr 14 region is also found.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/379/136
- Title:
- UBVRI photometry of 3 young open clusters
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/379/136
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In this paper we present and analyze CCD UBVRI photometry in the region of the three young open clusters NGC 3114, Collinder 228, and vdB-Hagen 99, located in the Carina spiral feature. NGC 3114 lies in the outskirts of the Carina nebula. We found 7 star members in a severely contaminated field, and obtain a distance of 950pc and an age less than 3x10^8^yrs. Collinder 228 is a younger cluster (8x10^6^yrs), located in front of the Carina nebula complex, for which we identify 11 new members and suggest that 30% of the stars are probably binaries. As for vdB-Hagen 99, we add 4 new members, confirming that it is a nearby cluster located at 500pc from the Sun and projected toward the direction of the Carina spiral arm. Observations were conducted at La Silla on April 13-16, 1996, with the 0.92m ESO-Dutch telescope.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/415/63
- Title:
- UBVRI surface brightness of 26 bright galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/415/63
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The UBVRI images of 26 bright spiral galaxies were decomposed in disks and bulges. Correlations of the resulting structural parameters are investigated, giving clues to the formation history of the bulges. We confirm that the large and bright bulges of early-type spirals are similar to elliptical galaxies. They were probably formed prior to the disks in a monolithic collapse or via early mergers. Late-type spirals have tiny and faint bulges with disk-like profiles. These bulges were probably formed after the disk in secular evolution processes, e.g. from a disk instability. The comparison of the color indices of corresponding spirals and bulges with population synthesis computations support above formation scenarios.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/240/262
- Title:
- UBVR photometry of the open cluster King 2
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/240/262
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In this paper we present the Johnson-Cousins UBVR CCD photometry of the stars in King 2, an old open cluster towards the galactic anticenter. We have obtained the colour-magnitude diagram, the colour excess, the reddening, an estimate of the metallicity, and the distance modulus. The comparison of the observational colour-magnitude diagram with the theoretical simulations based on stellar models with convective overshoot shows that a major revision of the model structure is required. To this aim, we explore the possibility that the formulation of convective overshoot for stars in the mass range 1 to 2M_{sun}_ ought to be different from the one currently in use. The point of major uncertainty that we see to affect the stars in this domain is whether or not convective overshoot may erode the gradient in molecular weight in the regions surrounding the convective core. We find that models, in which this is not allowed to occur, better fit the overall morphology of the colour-magnitude diagram of King 2. In addition to this, analyzing the width of the main sequence band we suggest that a significant fraction of the stars are members of binary systems, and evaluate the range spanned by their mass ratios. Finally, we derive the luminosity function and the mass function for the main sequence stars of the cluster.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/90/2221
- Title:
- UMi dwarf galaxy BV photometry
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/90/2221
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have constructed a color-magnitude diagram of the Ursa Minor dwarf spheroidal to m_V_=24.8mag from charged-coupled device (CCD) observations with the Kitt Peak 4 m telescope. The main-sequence turnoff is easily visible. Fits to evolutionary isochrones and the globular M92 indicate that Ursa Minor has an age and metal abundance very similar to that of the latter cluster. No evidence for stars younger than about 16 billion years is seen, with the possible exception of approximately 20 stars believed to be blue stragglers. Ursa Minor is therefore an extreme-age galaxy, unlike superficially similar objects such as the Carina dwarf. Indeed, Ursa Minor may be the only outer-halo spheroidal whose stellar content lives up to the classical ideals of a Population II system. A distance modulus of (m-M)_0_=19.0mag is derived from a sliding fit to the M92 ridge lines. However, this modulus is uncertain by ~0.1mag, for the horizontal branch in our color-magnitude diagram is poorly populated. The ratio of blue stragglers to anomalous Cepheids in Ursa Minor is estimated to be ~100, a number that may provide an important constraint on binary models for the origin of these stars. A surprising result of our study is the discovery of clumpiness in the distribution of stars. This finding may give more weight to the idea that dwarf spheroidal galaxies were previously dwarf irregular galaxies, although clearly, if so, Ursa Minor must have lost its gaseous content very soon after formation.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AcA/63/339
- Title:
- Variability Survey in Stock 14 cluster
- Short Name:
- J/AcA/63/339
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a photometric variability survey in the young open cluster Stock 14 and the surrounding fields. In total, we detected 103 variable stars of which 88 are new discoveries. We confirm short-period, low-amplitude light variations in two eclipsing members of the cluster, HD 101838 and HD 101794. In addition, we find two new {beta} Cep stars of which one, HD 101993, is also a member. The sample of pulsating cluster members is supplemented by one multimode slowly pulsating B-type star and several single-mode candidates of this type. The other pulsating stars in our sample are mostly field stars. In particular, we found 14 {delta} Sct stars including one {gamma} Dor/{delta} Sct hybrid pulsator.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/406/329
- Title:
- Variable stars in M54
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/406/329
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present new B, V and I CCD time-series photometry for 177 variable stars in a 13x13arcmin^2^ field centred on the globular cluster M54 using the European Southern Observatory (ESO)-Danish 1.54-m telescope in La Silla, 94 of which are newly identified variables. The total sample is composed of two anomalous Cepheids, 144 RR Lyrae stars (108 RR0 and 36 RR1), three SX Phoenicis, seven eclipsing binaries (five W UMa and two Algol binaries), three variables of uncertain classification and 18 long-period variables. Ephemerides are provided for all the observed short-period variables. The positional accuracy is better than 0.2".