A Study on the Fundamental Properties of Open Cluster NGC 6791 Based on the SDSS-DR8 and 2MASS Data

Details A Study on the Fundamental Properties of Open Cluster NGC 6791 Based on the SDSS-DR8 and 2MASS Data A Study on the Fundamental Properties of Open Cluster NGC 6791 Based on the SDSS-DR8 and 2MASS Data

Jan 2012

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Chinese Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 36, Issue 1, p. 1-11.

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The stellar spectroscopic data of SDSS-DR8 (The Eighth Data Release of Sloan Digital Sky Survey) and the near-infrared photometric data of 2MASS (Two Micron All Sky Survey) point sources are used to analyze the fundamental parameters of the open cluster NGC 6791. Using the radial velocities of 274 stars in the region of the cluster, we calculate the membership probability for each star with the maximum likelihood method. Based on the stars with high membership probabilities, we have derived the radial velocity and metal abundance of the cluster to be respectively Vr =-46.4±0.2 km·s-1 and [Fe/H]=0.32±0.11dex, in good agreement with the results obtained by other authors on the basis of high-resolution spectroscopy. Using red clump giants in the cluster as "standard candle", we have derived the absolute distance modulus of the cluster to be (m - M)0 =13.02±0.08mag or 4.02±0.15 kpc in distance, consistent with the values obtained from main-sequence fittings by some authors. And our main conclusions are: (1) NGC 6791 is extremely metal-rich; (2) Within the spectral resolution of SDSS, the discriminated 87 cluster members have no evident difference in matallicity; (3) The obtained distance modulus is insensitive to the age, metallicity and dust distinction, so it is a kind of reliable indirect measurement.

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