J/AJ/120/333        UBVRI and Hα in NGC 6530           (Sung+, 2000)

UBVRI and Hα photometry of the young open cluster NGC 6530. Sung H., Chun M.-Y., Bessell M.S. <Astron. J. 120, 333 (2000)> =2000AJ....120..333S 2000AJ....120..333S
ADC_Keywords: Clusters, open ; Stars, pre-main sequence ; Photometry, UBVRI ; Photometry, H-alpha ; Keywords: color-magnitude diagrams - open clusters and associations: individual (NGC 6530) - stars: early-type - stars: pre-main-sequence Abstract: New UBVRI and Hα photometry has been obtained for the young open cluster NGC 6530 located 10' east of the Lagoon Nebula (M8). We found 37 pre-main-sequence (PMS) stars with Hα emission and nine PMS candidates using the R-Hα color, a measure of Hα emission. From this new photometry we derived the cluster parameters (V0-MV=11.25±0.1mag and E(B-V)=0.35mag), typical age (1.5Myr), and an age spread of about 5Myr. We confirmed the presence of a small amount of differential reddening across the cluster. We also verified the abnormal reddening law for the cluster, especially for a heavily embedded O7 V star, Herschel 36. Comparisons were made for several PMS evolution models with regard to the resulting age distribution and the initial mass function. File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file table1.dat 143 887 Photometric data table3.dat 113 37 PMS stars with Hα emission table4.dat 114 9 PMS candidates with weak Hα emission table5.dat 71 29 PMS stars and candidates from HST data -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: J/AJ/116/1801 : IC 4996 CCD photometry (Delgado+, 1998) J/A+AS/123/63 : NGC 6530 multiwavelength photometry (van den Ancker+ 1997) Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 3 I3 --- SCB [1/887]+ Running identification number in NGC 6530 (Cl* NGC 6530 SCB NNNN in Simbad) 5- 6 I2 h RAh Right Ascension (J2000) 8- 9 I2 min RAm Right Ascension (J2000) 11- 14 F4.1 s RAs Right Ascension (J2000) 16 A1 --- DE- Declination (J2000) 17- 18 I2 deg DEd Declination (J2000) 20- 21 I2 arcmin DEm Declination (J2000) 23- 26 F4.1 arcsec DEs Declination (J2000) 28 I1 --- Tab [3-4]? Table number if object in tables 3 or 4 30- 35 F6.3 mag Vmag The weighted mean V band magnitude 37- 42 F6.3 mag V-I The weighted mean V-I color 44- 49 F6.3 mag B-V The weighted mean B-V color 51- 56 F6.3 mag U-B The weighted mean U-B color 58- 63 F6.3 mag R-Ha ? The weighted mean (R-Hα filter) color 66- 70 F5.3 mag e_Vmag Uncertainty in Vmag 72- 76 F5.3 mag e_V-I Uncertainty in V-I 78- 82 F5.3 mag e_B-V Uncertainty in B-V 84- 88 F5.3 mag e_U-B Uncertainty in U-B 90- 94 F5.3 mag e_R-Ha ? Uncertainty in R-Ha 97- 98 I2 --- o_Vmag Number of observations for Vmag 100-101 I2 --- o_V-I Number of observations for V-I 103-104 I2 --- o_B-V Number of observations for B-V 106-107 I2 --- o_U-B Number of observations for U-B 109-110 I2 --- o_R-Ha Number of observations for R-Ha 112-114 I3 --- Walker ? The Walker (1957ApJ...125..636W 1957ApJ...125..636W) identification number (NGC 6530 NNN in Simbad) 115 A1 --- f_Walker Duplicity or uncertainty (?) flag for Walker 117-120 F4.2 --- Prob [0,1]? Proper motion membership probability (1) 122-128 A7 --- SpType ? Spectral type and luminosity class (2) 130-144 A15 --- Remark Further remarks (2) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): Membership probability by van Altena & Jones (1972A&A....20..425V 1972A&A....20..425V). Note (2): Spectral types are mostly from Hiltner et al. (1965ApJ...141..183H 1965ApJ...141..183H) except for Herschel36 which is from Woolf (1961PASP...73..206W 1961PASP...73..206W). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3.dat table4.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 4 I4 --- SCB Sequential number 6- 7 I2 h RAh Right ascension (J2000) 9- 10 I2 min RAm Right ascension (J2000) 12- 15 F4.1 s RAs Right ascension (J2000) 17 A1 --- DE- Declination sign (J2000) 18- 19 I2 deg DEd Declination (J2000) 21- 22 I2 arcmin DEm Declination (J2000) 24- 25 I2 arcsec DEs Declination (J2000) 27- 32 F6.3 mag Vmag V magnitude 34- 38 F5.3 mag V-I V-I colour index 40- 44 F5.3 mag B-V B-V colour index 46- 51 F6.3 mag U-B ? U-B colour index 53- 58 F6.3 mag R-Ha R-Hα colour index 60- 64 F5.3 mag e_Vmag rms uncertainty on Vmag 66- 70 F5.3 mag e_V-I rms uncertainty on V-I 72- 76 F5.3 mag e_B-V rms uncertainty on B-V 78- 82 F5.3 mag e_U-B ? rms uncertainty on U-B 84- 88 F5.3 mag e_R-Ha rms uncertainty on R-Ha 90 I1 --- o_Vmag Number of observation for Vmag 92 I1 --- o_V-I Number of observation for V-I 94 I1 --- o_B-V Number of observation for B-V 96 I1 --- o_U-B ? Number of observation for U-B 98 I1 --- o_R-Ha Number of observation for R-Ha 100-114 A15 --- Rem Remarks -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: table5.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 A1 --- PMS [SC] S: PMS stars, C: PMS candidates 3- 6 I4 --- SCB Sequential number 8- 9 I2 h RAh Right ascension (J2000) 11- 12 I2 min RAm Right ascension (J2000) 14- 17 F4.1 s RAs Right ascension (J2000) 19 A1 --- DE- Declination sign (J2000) 20- 21 I2 deg DEd Declination (J2000) 23- 24 I2 arcmin DEm Declination (J2000) 26- 27 I2 arcsec DEs Declination (J2000) 29- 34 F6.3 mag Vmag V magnitude 36- 40 F5.3 mag V-I V-I colour index 42- 47 F6.3 mag Ha Hα magnitude 49- 53 F5.3 mag e_Vmag rms uncertainty on Vmag 55- 59 F5.3 mag e_V-I rms uncertainty on V-I 61- 65 F5.3 mag e_Ha rms uncertainty on Ha 67 I1 --- o_Vmag Number of observation for V 69 I1 --- o_V-I ? Number of observation for V-I 71 I1 --- o_Ha Number of observation for Hα -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- History: From AJ electronic version
(End) Greg Schwarz [AAS], Patricia Bauer [CDS] 29-Aug-2000
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