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Table 6

NGC 6530: previous and current determinations of color excess, distance, and age.


Reference E(BV ) d Age
[mag] [mag] [pc] [Myr]
Trumpler (1930)ph 1 090
Sanford (1949)sp 730
Johnson et al. (1961)ph 0.32 10.7 ± 0.3 1 400
Penston (1964)p ~1
Lindoff (1968)sc 11.91 1 560 <7
van Altena (1972)ph 0.35 11.25 1 780 2
Harris (1976)sp 6.36 ± 0.34
Kilambi (1977)ph 0.34 10.7
Sagar & Joshi (1978)ph 0.35 11.3 2
Chini & Neckel (1981)ph,sp 0.36 ± 0.09 11.4
Boehm-Vitense et al. (1984)sp 5 ± 2
Sagar et al. (1986)ph ~2
Battinelli & Capuzzo-Dolcetta (1991)p 0.35 1 600 ~2
Strobel et al. (1992)p 0.4 12.7 ~3
Feinstein (1994)ph 0.36 11.4 1 900
van den Ancker et al. (1997)ph,sp 0.30 1 800 ± 200
Rastorguev et al. (1999)h 1 270
Robichon et al. (1999)h ~763.36
Sung et al. (2000)ph 0.35 11.25 ± 0.1 1.5
Baumgardt et al. (2000)h ~917.43
Loktin & Beshenov (2001)h 9.005 ± 0.255 ~7.5
Prisinzano et al. (2005)ph 1 250 2.3
Kharchenko et al. (2005)h 1 322 ~4.7
McSwain & Gies (2005)ph 0.34** 10.62 ~7.4
Zhao et al. (2006)ph 1 330 ~7.4
Mayne & Naylor (2008)p 0.32 10.34 2
Kharchenko et al. (2009)h 0.30 1 322 ~4.7
Kharchenko et al. (2013)h 0.541 1 365 ~4.7

This work 0.26 ± 0.05 11.76 ± 0.20 2 245 ± 215 4−6

Notes. (h) Results based on HIPPARCOS data. (p)Results based on published data. (ph)Results based on photometric data. (sc)Results based on synthetic clusters. (sp)Results based on spectroscopic data. (**)The color excess E(BV ) was calculated in this work, using the published E(by) value and the relation E(by) = 0.74 E(BV ).

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