INVESTIGADORES
PIATTI Andres Eduardo
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
NGC 2194: un cúmulo abierto Galáctico relativamente joven y pobre en metales
Autor/es:
PIATTI, ANDRÉS E.; CLARIA OLMEDO, JUAN JOSÉ; AHUMADA, A.V.
Lugar:
La Plata
Reunión:
Congreso; Reunión Anual de la Asoc. Argentina de Astronomía; 2003
Resumen:
We present CCD VIKC photometry down to V ≈ 21 mag in the
field of the rich open cluster NGC 2194, which is projected towards the
Galactic anticentre direction. We measured V magnitudes and V-I colours
for a total of 2515 stars in a field of 13'.6 × 13'.6. These data
are supplemented with CCD photometry in the C, M and T1
filters of the Washington system and photoelectric
CMT1T2 photometry of 20 red giant candidates.
Based on the best fits of isochrones computed by the Geneva and Padova
groups to the (V,V-I) colour-magnitude diagram, we derive a colour
excess E(V-I) = 0.75, a cluster distance of 3.2 kpc and an age of 400
Myr. Five independent Washington abundance indices yield a mean cluster
metallicity of [Fe/H] = -0.27 ± 0.06, which is compatible with
the existence of both a radial and Z gradient in the Galactic disc. NGC
2194 is a relatively young open cluster, whose deficiency in metal
content can be accounted for by the fact of having been born not only
far from the Galactic centre in the outer disc, but also at a relatively
high Z value (Piatti, Clariá & Ahumada 2003, MNRAS, 340,
1249).