An Examination of Recent Transformations to the BV(RI)_C Photometric System from the Perspective of Stellar Models for Old Stars

Details An Examination of Recent Transformations to the BV(RI)_C Photometric System from the Perspective of Stellar Models for Old Stars An Examination of Recent Transformations to the BV(RI)_C Photometric System from the Perspective of Stellar Models for Old Stars

2010-09-28

arxiv.org/abs/1009.5704v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

To appear in 2010, AJ, 140, 1020

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Isochrones for ages > 4 Gyr and metallicities in the range -2.5 < [Fe/H] < +0.3 that take the diffusion of helium and recent advances in stellar physics into account are compared with observations in the Johnson-Cousins BV(RI)_C photometric system for several open and globular star clusters. The adopted color-Teff relations include those which we have derived from the latest MARCS model atmospheres and empirical transformations for dwarf and subgiant stars given by Casagrande et al (2010, A&A, 512, 54; CRMBA). Those reported by VandenBerg & Clem (2003, AJ, 126, 778) have also been considered, mainly to resolve some outstanding questions concerning them. Remarkably, when the subdwarfs in the CRMBA data set that have sigma_pi/pi < 0.15 are superimposed on a set of 12 Gyr isochrones spanning a wide range in [Fe/H], the inferred metallicities and effective temperatures agree, in the mean, with those given by CRMBA to within +/- 0.05 dex and +/- 10 K, respectively. Thus the hot Teff scale derived by CRMBA is nearly identical with that predicted by stellar models and consequently, there is excellent consistency between theory and observations on the H-R diagram and the different color-magnitude diagrams considered in this investigation. To obtain similar consistency, the colors obtained from the MARCS and VandenBerg & Clem B-V vs. Teff relations for metal-poor dwarf stars should be adjusted to the red by 0.02-0.03 mag. In general, isochrones that employ the CRMBA transformations provide reasonably good fits to our BV(RI)_C photometry for main-sequence stars in the globular clusters 47 Tuc, M3, M5, M92 and NGC 1851 - but not the cluster giants (when adopting the synthetic MARCS colors). We speculate that differences between the actual heavy-element mixtures and those assumed in the theoretical models may be the primary cause of this difficulty.

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