A DDO astrophysical study of NGC 752

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Astronomical Observatories, Astrophysics, Red Giant Stars, Star Clusters, Stellar Spectrophotometry, Abundance, Cyanogen, Interstellar Extinction, Open Clusters, Stellar Gravitation, Stellar Magnitude, Stellar Mass, Stellar Temperature

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DDO intermediate-band photometry of 11 red giants in the field of the sparsely populated open cluster NGC 752 is reported. Physical properties of the 11 stars, such as heavy-element abundances, surface gravities, and effective temperatures, are determined. A cluster age of 1.1 plus or minus 0.1 billion years is obtained by means of a comparison with Patenaude's (1978) theoretical isochrones. A true distance modulus of 7.9 plus or minus 0.2 mag is estimated for NGC 752, along with a true distance of 380 plus or minus 40 pc, an Fe/H abundance ratio of 0.0 plus or minus 0.1, and a red-giant mean mass of 1.5 plus or minus 0.2 solar masses. It is concluded that NGC 752 is on the metal-rich side of the distribution of intermediate and old open clusters, at about the same Fe/H value as NGC 7789 and halfway between NGC 2477 and NGC 2243.

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