Ultraviolet extinction toward five open clusters, and the accuracy of IUE extinction measurements

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Jan 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986apjs...60..305m&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (ISSN 0067-0049), vol. 60, Jan. 1986, p. 305-321.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

55

B Stars, Interstellar Extinction, Open Clusters, Spaceborne Astronomy, Ultraviolet Astronomy, Astronomical Catalogs, Interstellar Matter, Iue, Stellar Spectrophotometry

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The UV extinction curves of 33 main-sequence B stars in five open clusters are presented and analyzed. An analytic fitting function is introduced which represents the observed curves and codifies the structure of the 2175 A extinction bump. A set of extinction parameters are also defined which describe the shape of the far-UV extinction. These data are first used to determine whether the extinction toward any of the clusters is uniform, i.e., whether it can be represented by a single curve for the cluster. This is accomplished by comparing the observed scatter of the far-UV extinction measurements toward a given cluster with that predicted by an error model. The extinction toward four of the five clusters is found to be uniform. The extinction data for those clusters with uniform extinction are then used to determine the observational uncertainties in other extinction parameters for which a priori error estimates cannot be made. With one exception, all of the parameters which describe the shapes of UV extinction curves differ significantly from cluster to cluster. The exception is the central position of the UV extinction bump, which has the same value for all of the cluster extinction curves. Applications and interpretation of the results are given elsewhere.

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