Issue |
A&A
Volume 409, Number 2, October II 2003
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Page(s) | 541 - 551 | |
Section | Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20031121 | |
Published online | 17 November 2003 |
IC 2395 and BH 47: Only one open cluster in the Vela constellation
1
Observatorio Astronómico, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Laprida 854, 5000 Córdoba, Argentina e-mail: lapasset@mail.oac.uncor.edu; andrea@mail.oac.uncor.edu
2
Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio, CC 67, Suc. 28, 1428, Buenos Aires, Argentina e-mail: andres@iafe.uba.ar
Corresponding author: J. J. Clariá, claria@mail.oac.uncor.edu
Received:
2
May
2003
Accepted:
18
July
2003
We report UBV photoelectric photometry for 273 stars in the
fields of the open clusters IC 2395 and BH 47. Our postulate is that, rather
than two different clusters in this region of Vela, there is only one, which
we call . The cluster is centered at about
,
(2000), its angular diameter being ~
. The analysis of the photometric data yields 61 probable cluster
members and 16 possible members. Photometric membership probabilities show
good agreement with those obtained from a proper motion study for 21 stars in
common. The reddening across the cluster appears to be uniform, the mean
value being
. The true distance modulus is
, corresponding to a distance from the Sun of (
) pc and 48 pc below the Galactic plane. The cluster age, determined by fitting
isochrones with core overshooting, turns out to be (
) Myr. There is a
strong likelihood that
is physically connected to the Vela OB1C
association.
Key words: methods: observational / techniques: photometric / stars: fundamental parameters / open clusters and associations: individual: IC 2395, BH 47
© ESO, 2003
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