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Aug 1997
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997mnras.289..745r&link_type=abstract
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 289, Issue 3, pp. 745-752.
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Stars: Variables: Other, Globular Clusters: Individual: Ngc 6749, Galaxy: Halo
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We present V, I photometry of the loose star cluster NGC 6749, and for the first time colour-magnitude diagrams are provided. We confirm that it is a globular cluster and its blue horizontal branch indicates that it is metal-poor. We derive a reddening of E(B-V)=1.39+/-0.04 and a distance from the Sun dsolar=7.3+/-0.9 kpc (assuming a total-to-selective absorption R=3.4). The cluster is projected very close to the Galactic plane, and the derived distance implies a Galactic coordinate Z~-300 pc. It is thus a halo globular cluster located close to the disc plane. We also discuss the properties of 78 newly discovered long-period variable stars, of which 75 are Miras, projected within 1 deg of the cluster centre. The variables do not appear to be associated with the globular cluster. From their periods, most of them belong to the metal-rich disc or bulge stellar populations.
Barbuy Batriz
Bica Eduardo
Ortolani Sergio
Rosino Leonida
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