Structure and stellar content analysis of the open cluster M11 with 2MASS photometry

Details Structure and stellar content analysis of the open cluster M11 with 2MASS photometry Structure and stellar content analysis of the open cluster M11 with 2MASS photometry

2005-07-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0507216v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20053378

An overall analysis of the structure and stellar content of M11 is presented, thanks to the wide-angle 2MASS spatial coverage. We derive photometric and structural parameters and discuss the spatial dependance of the luminosity and mass functions. Photometric parameters basically agree with previous ones mostly based on the optical. We obtained a core radius of 1.23pc and a tidal radius of 29pc. In particular, the cluster is populous enough so that the tidal radius could be obtained by fitting the three-parameter King profile to the radial distribution of stars. We analyzed the spatial distribution of mass functions, finding that the the slope changes from -0.73 in the core to +2.88 in the outer halo. The spatial distribution of mass function slopes derived from 2MASS agrees with that derived from optical CCD data, which further confirms the reliability of 2MASS data for future analyses of this kind at comparable observational limits. We detect mass segregation up to distances from the center of ~20arcmin. We emphasize that the mass function slope in the core is flatter than anywhere else as a consequence of mass segregation. The derived total cluster mass is ~11000 solar masses.

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