Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-10-19
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.365:867-873,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
8 pages, 11 figures, in press in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09762.x
The first CCD UBV(RI) photometric study in the area of the doubtful open cluster NGC 2129 is presented. Photometry of a field offset 15 arcmin northward is also provided, to probe the Galactic disk population toward the cluster. Using star counts, proper motions from the UCAC2 catalog, colour-magnitude and colour-colour diagrams we demonstrate that NGC 2129 is a young open cluster. The cluster radius is 2.5 arcmin, and across this region we find evidence of significant differential reddening, although the reddening law seems to be normal toward its direction. Updated estimates of the cluster fundamental parameters are provided. The mean reddening is found to be E(B-V)=0.80$\pm$0.08 and the distance modulus is $(m-M)_o$= 11.70$\pm0.30$. Hence, NGC 2129 is located at 2.2$\pm$0.2 kpc from the Sun inside the Local spiral arm. The age derived from 37 photometrically selected members is estimated to be approximately 10 million years. These stars are used to provide new estimates of the cluster absolute proper motion components.
Carraro Giovanni
Chaboyer Brian
Perencevich James
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