INVESTIGADORES
PIATTI Andres Eduardo
artículos
Título:
The relatively young, metal-poor and distant open cluster NGC 2324
Autor/es:
PIATTI, ANDRÉS E.; CLARIA OLMEDO, JUAN JOSÉ; AHUMADA, A.V.
Revista:
ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
Referencias:
Año: 2004 vol. 418 p. 979 - 988
ISSN:
0004-6361
Resumen:
We have obtained CCD photometry in the Johnson V, Kron-Cousins I and
CT1 Washington systems for NGC 2324, a rich open cluster
located 35° from the Galactic anticentre direction. We
measured V magnitudes and V-I colours for 2865 stars and T1
magnitudes and C-T1 colours for 1815 stars in an area of 13.6
arcmin × 13.6 arcmin. The comparison of the cluster
colour-magnitude diagrams with isochrones of the Geneva group yield
E(V-I) = 0.33 ± 0.07 and V-MV = 13.70 ± 0.15
for log t = 8.65 (t = 440 Myr) and Z = 0.008 ([Fe/H] = -0.40), and
E(C-T1) = 0.40 ± 0.10 and T1-MT1
= 13.65 ± 0.15 for the same age and metallicity level. The
resulting E(V-I) reddening value implies E(B-V) = 0.25 ± 0.05 and
a distance from the Sun of (3.8 ± 0.5) kpc. Star counts carried
out within and outside the cluster region allowed us to estimate the
cluster angular radius as 5.3 arcmin ± 0.3 arcmin (5.9 pc). When
using the E(B-V) reddening value here derived and the original
Washington photometric data of \citet{gcm91} for the stars confirmed as
red cluster giants from Coravel radial velocities, we found [Fe/H] =
-0.31 ± 0.04, which is in good agreement with the best fits of
isochrones. Therefore, NGC 2324 is found to be a relatively young,
metal-poor and distant open cluster located beyond the Perseus spiral
arm. A comparison of NGC 2324 with 10 well-known open clusters of nearly
the same age shows that the cluster metal abundance and its position in
the Galaxy are consistent with the existence of a radial abundance
gradient of -0.07 dex kpc-1 in the Galactic disc.