SCYON Abstract

Received on September 16 2005

CCD photometric search for peculiar stars in open clusters. VI. NGC 1502, NGC 3105, Stock 16, NGC 6268, NGC 7235 and NGC 7510

AuthorsE. Paunzen(1), M. Netopil(1), I.Kh. Iliev(2), H.M. Maitzen(1), A. Claret(3), O.I. Pintado(4)
Affiliation(1) Institute for Astronomy, University of Vienna, Austria
(2) Institute of Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatory, Smolyan, Bulgaria
(3) Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, Granada, Spain
(4) Departamento de Fisica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Tecnologia, Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, Argentina
Accepted byAstronomy & Astrophysics
ContactErnst.Paunzen@univie.ac.at
URLhttp://www.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0508151
Links NGC 1502 / NGC 3105 / Stock 16 / NGC 6268 / NGC 7235 / NGC 7510

Abstract

Within the sample of six young open clusters (NGC 1502, NGC 3105, Stock 16, NGC 6268, NGC 7235 and NGC 7510) we have investigated 1753 objects using the narrow band, three filter Delta a photometric system resulting in the detection of eleven bona-fide magnetic chemically peculiar (CP) stars and five Be or metal-weak stars. The results for the distant cluster NGC 3105 is most important because of the still unknown influence of the global metallicity gradient of the Milky Way. These findings confirms that CP stars are present in open clusters of very young ages (log t >= 6.90) at galactocentric distances up to 11.4kpc. For all programme clusters the age, reddening and distance modulus were derived using the corresponding isochrones. Some additional variable stars within Stock 16 could be identified by comparing different photometric studies.