Open clusters: a program to analyse the color-magnitude diagram with the help of stellar kinematic data
Abstract
We constructed a program that allows one to use simultaneously and interactively photometric and astrometric stellar data (proper motion) to analyse color-color and color-magnitude diagrams. With this program, we are able to determine, based on photometric membership, the distance and age as well as the mean proper motion and radial velocity of several open clusters which had very uncertain parameters in previous analyses.
- Publication:
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Star Clusters: Basic Galactic Building Blocks Throughout Time and Space
- Pub Date:
- January 2010
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921309991426
- Bibcode:
- 2010IAUS..266..385D
- Keywords:
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- methods: data analysis;
- Hertzsprung–Russell diagram;
- open clusters and associations: general