Schmidt plate survey in the Galactic centre and anticentre direction. Luminosity and mass functions of open clusters

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May 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998an....319..173k&link_type=abstract

Astronomische Nachrichten, vol. 319, no. 3, p. 173.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The proper motions and stellar magnitudes for more than 20 000 stars distributed in areas around eight open clusters in the directions of the Sagittarius-Carina and Perseus spiral arms were used to determine the cluster membership. Both spatial-kinematical and statistical criteria were used for member selection. The luminosity functions of cluster members were constructed and used for the further data improvement. The safest portions of the luminosity function free both from evolved stars and faint field star contamination were used for mass function construction. The composite mass function was derived from the data on five young clusters with log t < 8.2. A dependence of the mass function slope on the adopted input parameters (mass-luminosity relation and distance scale) and on member selection procedure was tested. The slope was found to vary in a range from 1.36 to 1.80 for lg {cal M/M}_sun between 0.3 and 1.2. A possible relation between the individual MF slopes and cluster ages was indicated. The results are in good agreement with published data.

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