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Be Stars as Members of Open Clusters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 September 2016

A. Feinstein*
Affiliation:
Observatorio Astronómico, La Plata, Argentina

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A list of 124 Be-type stars belonging to 52 open clusters has been compiled. All of them have photometric UBV data, and many of them spectral classification in the MK system. Besides, the cluster's distance modulus and the mean color excess from the member stars are known. Then, we have computed the absolute magnitude and the intrinsic colors of each Be star.

The observed color-color diagram (Figure 1) shows clearly that nearly all Be stars appear to be reddened. In Figure 2 is given the color-magnitude diagram, (B-V)o versus Mv, in whicn the ZAMS (Blaauw, 1963) is also included. A few stars to the left of the main sequence belong to the young open clusters: NGC 869, 6167, 6530 and 6611. This effect may be due to wrong correction of the color indices because of abnormal values of the reddening law.

Type
V. Evolutionary Status of Be Stars
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

References

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