Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Feb 1986
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986aj.....91..303a&link_type=abstract
Astronomical Journal (ISSN 0004-6256), vol. 91, Feb. 1986, p. 303-311.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Astronomical Photometry, Charge Coupled Devices, Globular Clusters, Chronology, Distance, Stellar Color, Stellar Magnitude
Scientific paper
We have obtained 78 BVRI CCD frames with the 1.54 m Danish telescope at ESO, La Silla, and have constructed V vs B - V, V vs V - R, V vs R - I, V vs V - I, and V vs B - I color-magnitude diagrams in a 4' × 2.'5 field of the globular cluster NGC 6362. From these five CMDs we find that the main-sequence turnoffs are all close to the same magnitude, namely VTO = 18.75 ± 0.1, and the color turn-offs at B-V = 0.50 ± 0.02, V-R = 0.31 ± 0.02, R-I = 0.35 ± 0.02, V-I = 0.68 ± 0.02, and B - I = 1.18 ± 0.03. The magnitude difference between the turnoff and the horizontal branch for the five diagrams is Δ Mv = 3.40 ± 0.15 in excellent agreement with the value given by Sandage (1982). Using Y = 0.2, Z = 0.001 ([Fe/H] = - 1.27), a = 1.65, a distance modulus of (m -M)v = 14.74, and E(B - V) = 0.10, we find that the VandenBerg and Bell isochrones (1985) yield a consistent age for NGC 6362 in all colors indexes of 16 ± 1.5 × 100 yr. The solar distance to the cluster is 7.7 kpc and the galactic distance is 5.6 kpc assuming R0 = 9 kpc.
Alcaino Gonzalo
Liller William
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