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401. BV photometry in Draco molecular cloud
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/364/712
Title:
BV photometry in Draco molecular cloud
Short Name:
J/A+A/364/712
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
To investigate the distance and linear dimensions of the Draco Molecular Cloud (MBM 41) we have obtained new CCD photometry for a selection of stars in 20 selected areas toward the cores of the cloud. The selected areas were chosen to coincide with the brightest IRAS emitting portions of the cloud, and also with dense ^12^CO emission from the cloud. For each area we have obtained V and B photometry, and a subset of the fields has also been observed through a narrow-band H{alpha} filter and in the U band. We present V and B magnitudes for the 362 stars which have high-quality observations in both bands. The observations were made during the nights of June 29 and June 30, 1993 at the Palomar Observatory, using the 1.5-meter telescope and Palomar 6 Tektronix CCD camera with 24 micron pixels.
402. BV photometry in 4 fields of 47 Tuc
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASP/99/739
Title:
BV photometry in 4 fields of 47 Tuc
Short Name:
J/PASP/99/739
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
CCD photometry in B and V, taken with the RCA camera at the CTIO 4-meter telescope, is reported for 8800 stars in the field of 47 Tuc (= NGC 104 = C0021-723). Our data, reduced through the DAOPHOT code, comprise results from two long-exposure frame pairs in which the photometry extends from the cluster turnoff down to V~24, and two other short-exposure fields nearer to the cluster center which precisely define the giant and horizontal branches. Color-magnitude diagrams are presented, statistically corrected for background contamination from the Small Magellanic Cloud halo, and a composite CMD and luminosity function are constructed for the entire cluster, covering an 11-magnitude range in luminosity.
403. BV photometry in five SMC clusters
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/116/2395
Title:
BV photometry in five SMC clusters
Short Name:
J/AJ/116/2395
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present our analysis of archival Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) observations in F450W (~B) and F555W (~V) of the intermediate-age populous star clusters NGC 121, NGC 339, NGC 361, NGC 416, and Kron 3 in the Small Magellanic Cloud. We use published photometry of two other SMC populous star clusters, Lindsay 1 and Lindsay 113, to investigate the age sequence of these seven star clusters in order to improve our understanding of the formation chronology of the SMC. We analyzed the V versus B-V and M_V_ versus (B-V)_0_ color-magnitude diagrams of these populous Small Magellanic Cloud star clusters using a variety of techniques and determined their ages, metallicities, and reddenings. These new data enable us to improve the age-metallicity relation of star clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud. In particular, we find that a closed-box continuous star formation model does not reproduce the age-metallicity relation adequately. However, a theoretical model punctuated by bursts of star formation is in better agreement with the observational data presented herein.
404. BV photometry in Leo IV and Leo V dSphs
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/710/1664
Title:
BV photometry in Leo IV and Leo V dSphs
Short Name:
J/ApJ/710/1664
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We have obtained deep photometry in two 1{deg}x1{deg} fields covering the close pair of dwarf spheroidal galaxies Leo IV and Leo V and part of the area in between. From the distribution of likely red giant branch (RGB) and horizontal-branch (HB) stars in the data set, we find that both Leo IV and Leo V are significantly larger than indicated by previous measurements based on shallower data. With a half-light radius of r_h_=4.6'+/-0.8' (206+/-36pc) and r_h_=2.6'+/-0.6' (133+/-31pc), respectively, both systems are now well within the physical size bracket of typical dwarf spheroidal Milky Way satellites. Both are also found to be significantly elongated with an ellipticity of {epsilon}~0.5, a characteristic shared by many of the fainter (M_V_>-8) Milky Way dwarf spheroidals. The large spatial extent of our survey allows us to search for extra-tidal features in the area between the two dwarf galaxies with unprecedented sensitivity. The spatial distribution of candidate RGB and HB stars in this region is found to be non-uniform at the ~3{sigma} level. We investigate different scenarios to explain the close proximity of Leo IV and Leo V, and the possible tidal bridge between them.
405. BV photometry in M2 (NGC 7089)
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/117/2868
Title:
BV photometry in M2 (NGC 7089)
Short Name:
J/AJ/117/2868
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present BV CCD photometry for 30 RR Lyrae variables, including 13 newly discovered, in the Oosterhoff type II globular cluster M2. New light curves and ephemerides are presented. Our observations cover magnitudes ranging from the red giant branch tip to ~3mag below the turnoff, allowing us to determine accurate fundamental photometric parameters. With the discovery of new RR Lyrae variables, the mean periods of the RRab and RRc variables are <P_ab_>=0.685+/-0.022days and <P_c_>=0.333+/-0.013days, respectively. The number ratio of the RRc type variables to the total number of RR Lyrae type variables is n(c)/n(ab+c)=0.40. The RR Lyrae pulsational mode transition occurs between the fundamental period of 0.528-days and 0.556-days. From star counts along the horizontal branch (HB), we obtain two HB color distribution indices, (B-R)/(B+V+R)=0.92 and B2/(B+V+R)=0.46. The period-change rates are also derived. The mean period-change rate from six RRab variables is <{beta}>=0.06+/-0.04days/Myr, which agrees well with the predictions of Lee's 1991 model. Our color-magnitude diagram shows a very extended blue HB tail, and there are no significant blue HB gaps in M2.
406. BV photometry in NGC 5986
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/121/318
Title:
BV photometry in NGC 5986
Short Name:
J/AJ/121/318
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We have obtained new CCD BV photometry of the little-studied southern Galactic globular cluster NGC 5986, including light curves of five of its RR Lyrae variables. The cluster's red giant branch bump is detected for the first time, at V=16.47 +/-0.03. We derive a reddening and true distance modulus of E(B-V)=0.29+/-0.02 and (m-M)_0_=15.15+/-0.10, respectively. The cluster's color-magnitude diagram reveals a mostly blue horizontal branch, like that of M13 or M2, and quite unlike M3; yet all of these clusters have nearly identical metallicities ([Fe/H]_CG97_=-1.35). We show that the RR Lyrae variables in NGC 5986 are about 0.2mag brighter on average than those in M3, an important exception to the often-employed, universal M_V_(RR)-[Fe/H] relation. Finally, we note that NGC 5986 contains two luminous stars with spectral types A-F, which are likely to be post-asymptotic giant branch (PAGB) objects. The V-band luminosity function of such yellow PAGB stars is a promising standard candle. We suggest that the luminosity function is sharply peaked at M_V_(PAGB)=-3.28+/-0.07.
407. BV photometry in supergiant shell LMC4
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/328/167
Title:
BV photometry in supergiant shell LMC4
Short Name:
J/A+A/328/167
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The youngest stellar populations of a 'J'-shaped region inside the supergiant shell (SGS) LMC4 have been analysed with CCD photometry in B, V passbands. This region consists of 2 coherent strips, one from the east to the west reaching about 400pc across the OB superassociation LH 77 and another extending about 850pc from south to north. The standard photometric methods yield for each of the 25 CCD fields a colour-magnitude diagram (CMD) which is used for age determination of the youngest star population by isochrone fitting. The resultant ages lie in the range from 9Myr to 16Myr without correlation with the distance to the LMC 4 centre. We therefore conclude that there must have been one triggering event for star formation inside this large LMC SGS with a diameter of 1.4kpc.
408. BV photometry of active K-M dwarfs
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AZh/79/542
Title:
BV photometry of active K-M dwarfs
Short Name:
J/AZh/79/542
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Variability of the photospheric radiation of 40 (dKe-dMe) dwarfs due to variations in the spottedness of their surfaces is analyzed based on the behavior of their mean annual brightnesses over long time intervals.
409. BV photometry of Andromeda II variables
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/127/318
Title:
BV photometry of Andromeda II variables
Short Name:
J/AJ/127/318
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present the results of a variable star search in Andromeda II, a dwarf spheroidal galaxy companion to M31, using Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 observations. Seventy-three variables were found, one of which is an anomalous Cepheid while the others are RR Lyrae stars. The anomalous Cepheid has properties consistent with those found in other dwarf spheroidal galaxies. For the RR Lyrae stars, the mean periods are 0.571 and 0.363 days for the fundamental mode and first-overtone mode stars, respectively. With this fundamental mode mean period and the mean metallicity determined from the red giant branch (<[Fe/H]>=-1.49), Andromeda II follows the period-metallicity relation defined by the Galactic globular clusters and other dwarf spheroidal galaxies. We also find that the properties of the RR Lyrae stars themselves indicate a mean abundance that is consistent with that determined from the red giants.
410. BV photometry of Berkeley 36, 73 and 34
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/429/607
Title:
BV photometry of Berkeley 36, 73 and 34
Short Name:
J/A+A/429/607
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
BV photometry of the faint open clusters Berkeley 36, Berkeley 73 and Biurakan 13 are studied. For these clusters no colour-magnitude analyses were previously available. The colour-magnitude Diagrams indicate that they are all old open clusters. The derived ages are ~4Gyr for Berkeley 36, and ~2.3Gyr for both Berkeley 73 and Biurakan 13. The clusters are not very reddened, with E(B-V)=0.25, 0.10 and 0.30 respectively for Berkeley 36, Berkeley 73 and Biurakan 13. Berkeley 36 and Berkeley 73 are located at a distance from the Galactic center of 10kpc, while Biurakan 13 is much farther, at 15kpc. A peak in the age distribution appears at 5Gyr suggesting a distinct star forming event in the disk.