J/AN/322/73      BVIc photometry in NGC 2976              (Notni+, 2001)

Photometry of young starlike objects in the dwarf galaxy NGC 2976 - age and metallicity. Notni P., Karachentsev I.D., Makarova L.N. <Astron. Nachrichten, 322, 73-86 (2001)> =2001AN....322...73N 2001AN....322...73N
ADC_Keywords: Galaxies, photometry ; Stars, bright ; Photometry, CCD Keywords: galaxies: dwarf - galaxies: individual (NGC 2976) - galaxies: stellar photometry - galaxies: stellar content Abstract: We present BVIc photometry of the brightest stars and compact star clusters in NGC 2976, a dwarf galaxy in the interacting M81/M82 group. Deep CCD images of the galaxy were obtained with the 6m-Telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory (Russia) at arcsec resolution. About 290 young stars and concentrated young clusters were measured. Supplementaxy data in the ultraviolet are taken from the literature. The extinction to the measured objects is comparatively low, E(B-V)∼0.15-0.20mag. We estimate the ages of youngest resolved stars and concentrated star clusters to be ∼5x106years. This population is concentrated in a broad stripe facing M81. In the central disk the population is a bit older, about 8x106years, this may be a hint to an outward spreading star formation process. The metallicity of the disk population is estimated as solar (z∼0.02) from a fitting to Padova theoretical stellar isochrones. Objects: ---------------------------------------------------------- RA (2000) DE Designation(s) ---------------------------------------------------------- 09 47 15.5 +67 54 59 NGC 2976 = MCG+11-12-025 ---------------------------------------------------------- File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file table2.dat 67 288 BVIc photometry of bright starlike objects in NGC 2976 table3.dat 67 39 BVIc photometry, mean values of very tight (<0.8") multiple objects -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2.dat table3.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 4 I04 --- [NKM2001] Identification number (1) 5 A1 --- m_[NKM2001] [abc] Multiplicity index (1) 7- 9 I3 --- [BNM92] ? Blue Knots identification number, [BNM92] BKNN in Simbad (2) 11- 16 F6.2 pix Xpos X position (3) 18- 23 F6.2 pix Ypos Y position (3) 25- 30 F6.2 mag Vmag ?=100.0 Johnson V magnitude (4) 32- 37 F6.2 mag B-V ?=100.0 Johnson B-V colour index (4) 39- 44 F6.2 mag V-Ic ?=100.0 Johnson-Cousins V-I colour index (4) 46- 51 F6.3 mag (U-B)p ? Photographic (U-B) colour index 53- 55 I3 --- q_Bmag ?=999 Quality indicator on B frame (7) 57- 59 I3 --- q_Vmag ?=999 Quality indicator on V frame (7) 61- 63 I3 --- q_Imag ?=999 Quality indicator on I frame (7) 65 I1 --- T [1/3]? Number of objects with the same sequential number (5) 67 I1 --- Ext [0/4] Position label (6) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): Very tight neighbours (distance<0.8") are given the same number. They are differenciated with a letter, a, b, c. Note (2): Identification number of Blue Knots from the photographic measures of Bronkalle et al., 1992AN....313....1B 1992AN....313....1B (their Table 2). If more than one object measured here may be contained in the knot, the identification is given for all of them. The nearest one is the one for which (U-B)p is given. Note (3): Coordinates in pixels, 1pixel=0.20arcsec. The x-direction points towards PA=242.2° (south-west), the major axis of NGC 2976 (PA=322°) is inclined about 10 degrees towards west from the y-axis. Note (4): '100.0' marks objects too faint in V (and B) to be measured Note (5): Flag T as follows: 1 = normal single object 2 = object has 1 close neighbour 3 = object has 2 close neighbours Note (6): Position label as follows: 0 = red region 1 = bluest region 2 = red region 3 = moderately blue region 4 = moderately blue region Note (7): the quality gives an estimate of the error in units of 0.01mag/pixel step in radius. Reliable measurements have their quality less than 15. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- History: Prepared via OCR at CDS.
(End) James Marcout, Patricia Bauer [CDS] 25-Oct-2001
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