Reddening and Age of 15 Southern Galactic Open Clusters determined from Integrated Spectroscopy

Details Reddening and Age of 15 Southern Galactic Open Clusters determined from Integrated Spectroscopy Reddening and Age of 15 Southern Galactic Open Clusters determined from Integrated Spectroscopy

May 2009

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XII Latin American IAU Regional Meeting (Eds. G. Magris, G. Bruzual, & L. Carigi) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (

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We present flux-calibrated integrated spectra obtained at CASLEO (Argentina) in the range 3800-6800Å for 15 small angular diameter Galactic open clusters. Using the equivalent widths of the Balmer lines and comparing the cluster spectra with solar-metallicity template spectra of Galactic star clusters with known properties, we derive both foreground E(B - V) colour excesses and ages. Five out of the 15 studied clusters had not been the subject of previous studies so that the fundamental parameters determined in the current work turn out to be the first of their kind. For the remaining clusters, we provide independent information of that derived from colour-magnitude diagram studies. Five clusters are found to be very young (BH 121, BH 205, Bochum 14, Tr 15 and Tr 27), four are moderately young (Collinder 258, BH 92, Pismis 23 and NGC 6268), three are Hyades-like age clusters (Ruprecht 158, BH 55 and BH 90), one is an intermediate-age cluster (Ruprecht 164) and two are definitely old (ESO 65-SC7 and Ruprecht 159). The E(B - V) colour excesses derived for the whole sample range from ˜~0.0 in Ruprecht 158 to ˜~2.40 in Tr 27, while the ages vary from ~˜~3~Myr to ~˜~2~Gyr. The age and reddening distributions of the present cluster sample match those of open clusters with known parameters in a 110° sector centered at l=310°.

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