Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005pasp..117...22p&link_type=abstract
The Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 117, Issue 827, pp. 22-31.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Galaxy: Open Clusters And Associations: General, Open Clusters And Associations: Individual (Ngc 6318), Techniques: Photometric
Scientific paper
We present CCD BVI photometry for the southern open cluster NGC 6318. The sample consists of 9876 stars measured in an area of 13.6m×13.6m, extending down to V~21.5 mag. Star counts carried out within and outside the cluster region allowed us to estimate the cluster angular radius as ~8'. The comparison of the cluster color-magnitude diagrams with isochrones of the Geneva group yields E(B-V)=1.20+/-0.05, E(V-I)=1.55+/-0.10, and V-MV=15.45+/-0.35 for logt=8.20 (t=160 Myr) and Z=0.020. NGC 6318 is then located at 2.1+/-0.5 kpc from the Sun and 30 pc below the Galactic plane. Using the WEBDA open cluster database, we examined the structure of the Galactic disk along the line of sight of NGC 6318. Among the known clusters in this direction, HM 1 and BH 222 are the farthest ones, while those located between 1 and 2 kpc of the Sun appear to be more absorbed than those expected to follow a quasi-linear extinction law.
Ahumada Andrea V.
Claria Juan J.
Piatti Andrés E.
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