INVESTIGADORES
PIATTI Andres Eduardo
artículos
Título:
On the nature of five open cluster candidates projected close to the Galactic centre
Autor/es:
PIATTI, ANDRÉS E.; CLARIA OLMEDO, JUAN JOSÉ
Revista:
ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
Referencias:
Año: 2001 vol. 379 p. 453 - 460
ISSN:
0004-6361
Resumen:
We present CCD BVI observations obtained for 1759 stars in 4arcmin
x4arcmin regions around the unstudied southern stellar aggregates
Ruprecht 103, 124, 129, 146 and 166, which are described as open
clusters in several catalogues. Our analysis shows that none of these
stellar groups are genuine open clusters since no clear main sequences
or other meaningful features can be seen in their colour-magnitude
diagrams. Star counts carried out within and outside the cluster
candidate fields not only support these results but also show that the
studied objects do not appear to be candidate late stages of star
cluster dynamical evolution.