Issue |
A&A
Volume 528, April 2011
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Article Number | A148 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Catalogs and data | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201116507 | |
Published online | 17 March 2011 |
uvbyβ photometry of early type open cluster and field stars⋆,⋆⋆
Institut für Astronomie, Universität Wien,
Türkenschanzstraße 17,
1180
Wien,
Austria
e-mail: gerald.handler@univie.ac.at
Received:
13
January
2011
Accepted:
27
January
2011
Context. The β Cephei stars and slowly pulsating B (SPB) stars are massive main sequence variables. The strength of their pulsational driving strongly depends on the opacity of iron-group elements. As many of those stars naturally occur in young open clusters, whose metallicities can be determined in several fundamental ways, it is logical to study the incidence of pulsation in several young open clusters.
Aims. To provide the foundation for such an investigation, Strömgren-Crawford uvbyβ photometry of open cluster target stars was carried out to determine effective temperatures, luminosities, and therefore cluster memberships.
Methods. In the course of three observing runs, uvbyβ photometry for 168 target stars was acquired and transformed into the standard system by measurements of 117 standard stars. The list of target stars also included some known cluster and field β Cephei stars, as well as β Cephei and SPB candidates that are targets of the asteroseismic part of the Kepler satellite mission.
Results. The uvbyβ photometric results are presented. The data are shown to be on the standard system, and the properties of the target stars are discussed: 140 of these are indeed OB stars, a total of 101 targets lie within the β Cephei and/or SPB star instability strips, and each investigated cluster contains such potential pulsators.
Conclusions. These measurements will be taken advantage of in a number of subsequent publications.
Key words: stars: early-type / stars: fundamental parameters / open clusters and associations: general / techniques: photometric / stars: oscillations / asteroseismology
Tables 3–6 are only available in electronic form at the CDS via anonymous ftp to cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/528/A148
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