A CCD BVI photometric study of the young, highly reddened open cluster NGC 6318

We present CCD BVI photometry for the southern open cluster NGC 6318. The sample consists of 9876 stars measured in an area of 13′.6 × 13′.6, extending down to V ∼ 21.5 mag. Star counts carried out within and outside the cluster region allowed us to estimate the cluster angular radius as ∼8′. The co...

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Autores principales: Piatti, A.E., Clariá, J.J., Ahumada, A.V.
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spelling todo:paper_00046280_v117_n827_p22_Piatti2023-10-03T13:59:45Z A CCD BVI photometric study of the young, highly reddened open cluster NGC 6318 Piatti, A.E. Clariá, J.J. Ahumada, A.V. We present CCD BVI photometry for the southern open cluster NGC 6318. The sample consists of 9876 stars measured in an area of 13′.6 × 13′.6, extending down to V ∼ 21.5 mag. Star counts carried out within and outside the cluster region allowed us to estimate the cluster angular radius as ∼8′. The comparison of the cluster color-magnitude diagrams with isochrones of the Geneva group yields E(B - V) = 1.20 ± 0.05, E(V - I) = 1.55 ± 0.10, and V- MV = 15.45 ± 0.35 for log t = 8.20 (t = 160 Myr) and Z = 0.020. NGC 6318 is then located at 2.1 ± 0.5 kpc from the Sun and 30 pc below the Galactic plane. Using the WEBDA open cluster database, we examined the structure of the Galactic disk along the line of sight of NGC 6318. Among the known clusters in this direction, HM 1 and BH 222 are the farthest ones, while those located between 1 and 2 kpc of the Sun appear to be more absorbed than those expected to follow a quasi-linear extinction law. JOUR info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ar http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00046280_v117_n827_p22_Piatti
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description We present CCD BVI photometry for the southern open cluster NGC 6318. The sample consists of 9876 stars measured in an area of 13′.6 × 13′.6, extending down to V ∼ 21.5 mag. Star counts carried out within and outside the cluster region allowed us to estimate the cluster angular radius as ∼8′. The comparison of the cluster color-magnitude diagrams with isochrones of the Geneva group yields E(B - V) = 1.20 ± 0.05, E(V - I) = 1.55 ± 0.10, and V- MV = 15.45 ± 0.35 for log t = 8.20 (t = 160 Myr) and Z = 0.020. NGC 6318 is then located at 2.1 ± 0.5 kpc from the Sun and 30 pc below the Galactic plane. Using the WEBDA open cluster database, we examined the structure of the Galactic disk along the line of sight of NGC 6318. Among the known clusters in this direction, HM 1 and BH 222 are the farthest ones, while those located between 1 and 2 kpc of the Sun appear to be more absorbed than those expected to follow a quasi-linear extinction law.
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author Piatti, A.E.
Clariá, J.J.
Ahumada, A.V.
spellingShingle Piatti, A.E.
Clariá, J.J.
Ahumada, A.V.
A CCD BVI photometric study of the young, highly reddened open cluster NGC 6318
author_facet Piatti, A.E.
Clariá, J.J.
Ahumada, A.V.
author_sort Piatti, A.E.
title A CCD BVI photometric study of the young, highly reddened open cluster NGC 6318
title_short A CCD BVI photometric study of the young, highly reddened open cluster NGC 6318
title_full A CCD BVI photometric study of the young, highly reddened open cluster NGC 6318
title_fullStr A CCD BVI photometric study of the young, highly reddened open cluster NGC 6318
title_full_unstemmed A CCD BVI photometric study of the young, highly reddened open cluster NGC 6318
title_sort ccd bvi photometric study of the young, highly reddened open cluster ngc 6318
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00046280_v117_n827_p22_Piatti
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