Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-12-10
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 331 (2002) 785
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
11 pages, 13 eps figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05249.x
In this paper we present and analyze new CCD $UBVRI$ photometry down to $V\approx$21 in the region of the young open cluster Trumpler~15, located in the Carina spiral feature. The cluster is rather compact and has a core radius of about 2$^{\prime}$, which translates in about 1 pc at the distance of the cluster. We provide the first CCD investigation and update its fundamental parameters. We identify 90 candidate photometric members on the base of the position in the color-color and color-magnitude diagrams. This sample allows us to obtain a distance of 2.4$\pm$0.3 kpc from the Sun and a reddening E$(B-V)$=0.52$\pm0.07$. We confirm that the cluster is young, and fix a upper limit of 6 million yrs to its age . In addition, we draw the attention on the lower part of the Main Sequence (MS) suggesting that some stars can be in contracting phase and on a gap in the MS, that we show to be a real feature, the $B1-B5$ gap found in other young open clusters. We finally study in details the extinction toward Trumpler~15 concluding that it is normal and suggesting a value of 2.89$\pm$0.19 for the ratio of total to selective absorption $R_V$.\
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