The intermediate age open cluster NGC 2660
Astrophysics
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
We present CCD UBVI photometry of the intermediate old open cluster NGC2660, covering from the red giants region to about seven magnitudes below the main sequence turn-off. Using the synthetic Colour - Magnitude Diagram method, we estimate in a self-consistent way values for distance modulus ((m-M)0 ~= 12.2), reddening (E(B-V) ~= 0.40), metallicity ([Fe/H] about solar), and age (age ~ 1 Gyr). A 30% population of binary stars turns out to be probably present.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9907048,
title = {The intermediate age open cluster NGC 2660},
author = {S. Sandrelli and A. Bragaglia and M. Tosi and G. Marconi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9907048},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
12 pages, 8 (encapsulated) figures, to be published on MNRAS