Absolute Magnitude Calibration for Red Giants based on the Colour-Magnitude Diagrams of Galactic Clusters. I- Calibration with V and (B-V)

Details Absolute Magnitude Calibration for Red Giants based on the Colour-Magnitude Diagrams of Galactic Clusters. I- Calibration with V and (B-V) Absolute Magnitude Calibration for Red Giants based on the Colour-Magnitude Diagrams of Galactic Clusters. I- Calibration with V and (B-V)

2012-04-19

arxiv.org/abs/1204.4291v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxy Astrophysics

15 pages, including 6 figures and 16 tables, accepted for publication in PASA

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We present an absolute magnitude calibration for red giants with the colour magnitude diagrams of six Galactic clusters with different metallicities i.e. M92, M13, M5, 47 Tuc, M67, and NGC 6791. The combination of the absolute magnitude offset from the fiducial of giant sequence of the cluster M5 with the corresponding metallicity offset provides calibration for absolute magnitude estimation for red giants for a given (B-V)o colour. The calibration is defined in the colour interval 0.75<=(B-V)o<=1.50 mag and it covers the metallicity interval -2.15<[Fe/H]<=+0.37 dex. 91% of the absolute magnitude residuals obtained by the application of the procedure to another set of Galactic clusters lie in the interval -0.40<\Delta M<=+0.40 mag. The mean and the standard deviation of the residuals are 0.05 and 0.19 mag, respectively. We fitted the absolute magnitude also to metallicity and age for a limited sub-sample of (B-V)o colour, just to test the effect of age in absolute magnitude calibration. Comparison of the mean and the standard deviation of the residuals evaluated by this procedure with the corresponding ones provided by the procedure where the absolute magnitude fitted to a third degree polynomial of metallicity show that the age parameter may be omitted in absolute magnitude estimation of red giants. The derived relations are applicable to stars older than 4 Gyr, the age of the youngest calibrating cluster.

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