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Relative proper motions and cluster membership probabilities have been derived for ~ 2500 stars in the field of the open star cluster NGC 3766. The cluster has been observed in $B$ and $V$ broadband filters at two epochs separated by ~ 6…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 R. K. S. Yadav , Devesh P. Sariya , R. Sagar

NGC 6819 is a richly populated, older open cluster situated within the Kepler field. A CCD survey of the cluster on the uvbyCaHbeta system, coupled with proper-motion membership, has been used to isolate 382 highly probable, single-star…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 B. J. Anthony-Twarog , C. P. Deliyannis , B. A. Twarog

UBGVRI photometry for the open cluster NGC 2506 is presented. From comparison of the observed colour-magnitude diagrams with simulations based on stellar evolutionary models we derive in a self consistent way reddening, distance, and age of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 G. Marconi , D. Hamilton , M. Tosi , A. Bragaglia

CCD photometry on the intermediate-band uvbyCaH-beta system is presented for the old open cluster, NGC 6253. Despite a high level of field star contamination due to its location toward the galactic center, combination of the data from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. A. Twarog , B. J. Anthony-Twarog , N. De Lee

The detached eclipsing binary V20 in the old, metal--rich open cluster NGC 6791 is studied in order to determine highly accurate masses and radii of its components. This allows the cluster age to be established with high precision, using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Grundahl , J. V. Clausen , S. Hardis , S. Frandsen

NGC 6528 and NGC 6553 are among the most metal-rich globular clusters in the Galactic bulge. They represent the upper end of the chemical enrichment in the Galaxy, and can inform on the processes of cluster formation and enrichment. We aim…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-18 S. Ortolani , S. O. Souza , D. Nardiello , B. Barbuy , E. Bica

Three new photometric CCD-based datasets are presented for NGC~6791. They consist of deep UBV photometry (to $V_{lim} =24$, $B_{lim}=24$, $U_{lim} = 23$) of the central parts of the cluster and of selected fields around it, and of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Janusz Kaluzny , Slavek Rucinski

Accurate stellar parameters of stars in open clusters can help constrain models of stellar structure and evolution. Here we wish to determine the age and metallicity content of the open cluster NGC 2506. To this end we investigated three…

We present photometric and kinematic analysis of an intermediate age open cluster NGC 1027 using $UBV(RI)_c$ and Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3) data. Structural and fundamental parameters such as cluster center, cluster extent, reddening,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-28 Apara Tripathi , Neelam Panwar , Saurabh Sharma , Brijesh Kumar , Shantanu Rastogi

An extensive grid of metal-rich isochrones utilizing the latest available input physics has been calculated for comparison with the old, metal-rich open cluster NGC 6791. The isochrones have been simultaneously fit to BV and VI color…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Brian Chaboyer , Elizabeth M. Green , James Liebert

The statistical analysis of gathered of astronomical objects (such as open cluster) are excellent tools to compute its parameters and to constrain the theory of its evolution. Here, we are represented detailed structural and membership…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-26 Gireesh C. Joshi , R. K. Tyagi

NGC 5822 is a richly populated, moderately nearby, intermediate-age open cluster covering an area larger than the full moon on the sky. A CCD survey of the cluster on the UBVI and uvbyCaHbeta systems shows that the cluster is superposed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Giovanni Carraro , Barbara J. Anthony-Twarog , Edgardo Costa , Bryce J. Jones , Bruce A. Twarog

The results of astrometric and photometric investigations of the open cluster NGC 7243 are presented. Proper motions of 2165 stars with root-mean-square error of 1.1 mas/yr were obtained by means of PDS scanning of astrometric plates…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. G. Jilinski , V. N. Frolov , J. K. Ananjevskaja , J. Straume , N. A. Drake

The fundamentals of estimating essential stellar parameters of an open cluster-NGC 2360 and globular clusters-NGC 5272 are presented extensively in this work. Here, the evaluation of stellar parameters, by manually fitting the appropriate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-09 Kanwar Preet Kaur , Pankaj S. Joshi

This paper investigates a poorly studied open cluster, NGC 5288, using 2MASS JHKS and the recently released Gaia DR3 astrometric and photometric data. The mean proper motions in Right Ascension and Declination are estimated as (-3.840 +/-…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-18 Ritika Sethi , D. Bisht , Geeta Rangwal , A. Raj

We present a detailed photometric and kinematical analysis of poorly studied open cluster IC 1434 using CCD VRI, APASS, and Gaia DR2 database for the first time. BY determining the membership probability of stars, we identified the 238 most…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Y. H. M. Hendy , D. Bisht

We present a comprehensive analysis (photometric and kinematical) of poorly studied open cluster NGC 4337 using 2MASS, WISE, APASS, and Gaia~DR2 database. By determining the membership probabilities of stars, we identified 624 most probable…

A (V,V - I)--diagram for the intermediate-age open cluster NGC 7789 has been derived from CCD observations of more than 15,000 stars within ~ 18 arcmin of the cluster center. From the brightest giants and blue stragglers at V ~ 11 to the…

We present new astrophysical parameters for the open cluster NGC~6793 based on new CCD $UBV(RI)_{KC}$ photometry. We derived a reddening of $E(B-V) = 0.24 \pm 0.02$~mag and a heavy element abundance of $Z = 0.024$ ($[Fe/H] = +0.20$~dex).…

We present VI photometry of the metal-poor inner halo globular clusters NGC6293 and NGC6541 using the planetary camera of the WFPC2 on board HST. Our color-magnitude diagrams of the clusters show well-defined BHB populations, consistent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jae-Woo Lee , Bruce W. Carney