RMxAA

Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica

ISSN: 3061-8649
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Keywords

Galaxy: stellar content
open clusters and associations: individual: ADS15184
ADS728
ADS2843
ADS16795
techniques: photometry
Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies

How to Cite

CCD Photometry of Trapezia Stars I. (2024). Revista Mexicana De Astronomía Y Astrofísica, 60(1), 177-197. https://doi.org/10.22201/ia.01851101p.2024.60.0.13

Abstract

We present photometric CCD observations of stars in four stellar trapezia ADS 15184, ADS 4728, ADS 2843, and ADS 16795. This study is performed on images obtained at the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional at San Pedro Mártir (OAN), Baja California, México. In this work we utilise aperture photometry to measure the U, B, V, R and I magnitudes of some of the stars in these dynamically unstable stellar clusters (trapezia). Using the Q = (U ‑ B) ‑ 0.72(B ‑ V) parameter we obtained the spectral type of the studied stars as well as their distance to the Sun and their reddening. Slight differences between the Q-derived Spectral types and those listed in SIMBAD might be due to a different value, from 0.72, for the slope of the reddening line on the two-colour diagram.
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