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Complex stellar system ESO65SC03: Open cluster or remnant?

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2015-06-17 v1

Abstract

We present a complete spatial and dynamical study of the poorly populated stellar system ESO65SC03. The radial distribution of the system gives a core and cluster radii of 1.10+/-0.63 arcmin and 5.36+/-0.24 arcmin, respectively. The surface number density profile (SNDP) does not show any clear enhancement of the surface stellar number density between the stars of the system and the field regions. We derive the optimum isochrone solution for a particular grid size in the colour-magnitude diagram (CMD) using the statistical cleaning procedure. Using the statistically cleaned CMDs, we find the distance modulus, (m-M)_0, and reddening, E({B-V}), of the system to be 11.8+/-0.2 mag and 0.45 mag, respectively. The mean proper motion of this system is -5.37+/-0.81 mas/yr and 0.31+/-0.40 in RA and DEC directions, respectively. The mean proper motion of this system is found to be almost similar to the field region. The mass function for the brighter stars is found to be too high for the system to be an open cluster. These combined results place constraints on whether stellar system ESO65SC03 is a possible open star cluster remnant (POCR) or an Asterism. Our understanding is that the ESO65SC03 is in a stage of POCR by loosing their main sequence stars in the dynamic evolution processes.

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@article{arxiv.1505.02869,
  title  = {Complex stellar system ESO65SC03: Open cluster or remnant?},
  author = {Gireesh C. Joshi and Y. C. Joshi and S. Joshi and S. Chowdhury and R. K. Tyagi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.02869},
  year   = {2015}
}

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10 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in PASA

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