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Volume 577, May 2015
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Article Number | A148 | |
Number of page(s) | 17 | |
Section | Stellar structure and evolution | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425019 | |
Published online | 20 May 2015 |
The Seven Sisters DANCe
I. Empirical isochrones, luminosity, and mass functions of the Pleiades cluster⋆,⋆⋆,⋆⋆⋆
1
Centro de Astrobiología, Dpto. de Astrofísica, INTA-CSIC, PO Box 78, ESAC
Campus, 28691 Villanueva de la Cañada,
Madrid
Spain
e-mail:
hbouy@cab.inta-csic.es
2
Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS UMR 7095 and
UPMC, 98bis bd
Arago, 75014
Paris,
France
3
Dpto. de Inteligencia Artificial, UNED, Juan del Rosal,
16, 28040
Madrid,
Spain
4
UJF-Grenoble 1/CNRS-INSU, Institut de Planétologie et
d’Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG), UMR 5274, 38041
Grenoble,
France
5 Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corporation, 65-1238 Mamalahoa
Highway, Kamuela, HI96743, USA
6
Dept. Statistics and Operations Research, University of Cádiz,
Campus Universitario Río San Pedro s/n, 11510 Puerto Real, Cádiz, Spain
7
Las Campanas Observatory, Carnegie Institution of
Washington, Colina el Pino, 601
Casilla, La Serena,
Chile
Received: 18 September 2014
Accepted: 10 February 2015
Context. The DANCe survey provides photometric and astrometric (position and proper motion) measurements for approximately 2 million unique sources in a region encompassing ~80 deg2 centered on the Pleiades cluster.
Aims. We aim at deriving a complete census of the Pleiades and measure the mass and luminosity functions of the cluster.
Methods. Using the probabilistic selection method previously described, we identified high probability members in the DANCe (i ≥ 14 mag) and Tycho-2 (V ≲ 12 mag) catalogues and studied the properties of the cluster over the corresponding luminosity range.
Results. We find a total of 2109 high-probability members, of which 812 are new, making it the most extensive and complete census of the cluster to date. The luminosity and mass functions of the cluster are computed from the most massive members down to ~0.025 M⊙. The size, sensitivity, and quality of the sample result in the most precise luminosity and mass functions observed to date for a cluster.
Conclusions. Our census supersedes previous studies of the Pleiades cluster populations, in terms of both sensitivity and accuracy.
Key words: proper motions / stars: luminosity function, mass function / open clusters and associations: individual: M 45
Based on service observations made with the William Herschel Telescope operated on the island of La Palma by the Isaac Newton Group in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias.
Table 1 and Appendices are available in electronic form at http://www.aanda.org
DANCe catalogs (Tables 6 and 7) and full Tables 2–5 are only available 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/577/A148
© ESO, 2015
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