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Astrometry with the Hubble Space Telescope: A Parallax of the Fundamental Distance Calibrator RR Lyrae
We present an absolute parallax and relative proper motion for thefundamental distance scale calibrator, RR Lyrae. We obtain these withastrometric data from FGS 3, a white-light interferometer on the HubbleSpace Telescope. We find πabs=3.82+/-0.2 mas. Spectralclassifications and VRIJHKT2M and DDO 51 photometry of theastrometric reference frame surrounding RR Lyr indicate that fieldextinction is low along this line of sight. We estimate=0.07+/-0.03 for these reference stars. Theextinction suffered by RR Lyr becomes one of the dominant contributorsto the uncertainty in its absolute magnitude. Adopting theaverage fieldabsorption =0.07+/-0.03, we obtainMRRV=0.61-0.11+0.10. Thisprovides a distance modulus for the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) ofm-M=18.38-18.53-0.11+0.10, with the averageextinction-corrected magnitude of RR Lyrae variables in the LMC,, remaining a significant uncertainty. We compare thisresult with more than 80 other determinations of the distance modulus ofthe LMC. Based on observations made with the NASA/ESA Hubble SpaceTelescope, obtained at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which isoperated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy,Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5-26555.
| Absolute proper motions of open clusters. I. Observational data
Mean proper motions and parallaxes of 205 open clusters were determinedfrom their member stars found in the Hipparcos Catalogue. 360 clusterswere searched for possible members, excluding nearby clusters withdistances D < 200 pc. Members were selected using ground basedinformation (photometry, radial velocity, proper motion, distance fromthe cluster centre) and information provided by Hipparcos (propermotion, parallax). Altogether 630 certain and 100 possible members werefound. A comparison of the Hipparcos parallaxes with photometricdistances of open clusters shows good agreement. The Hipparcos dataconfirm or reject the membership of several Cepheids in the studiedclusters. Tables 1 and 2 are only available in electronic form at theCDS via anonymous ftp to cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (130.79.128.5) or viahttp://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/Abstract.html
| UBVI CCD photometry of M35 (NGC 2168)
UBVI CCD photometry has been obtained for the intermediate-age opencluster M35 (NGC 2168). From this new photometry we derived the clusterparameters (V_0 - M_V= 9.60 +/- 0.10 mag, E(B-V) = 0.255 +/- 0.024 mag),age (log t_age=8.3 +/-0.3) and a photometric abundance (Z ~ 0.008, i.e.[Fe/H] ~ - 0.3) from comparison with theoretical isochrones of thePadova group. A minimum binary frequency (35 +/- 5 per cent) wasestimated from the distribution of distance moduli of unevolved propermotion members. Faint photometric members were selected by usingdifferences in the reddening effect on colour indices.
| Vitesses radiales. Catalogue WEB: Wilson Evans Batten. Subtittle: Radial velocities: The Wilson-Evans-Batten catalogue.
We give a common version of the two catalogues of Mean Radial Velocitiesby Wilson (1963) and Evans (1978) to which we have added the catalogueof spectroscopic binary systems (Batten et al. 1989). For each star,when possible, we give: 1) an acronym to enter SIMBAD (Set ofIdentifications Measurements and Bibliography for Astronomical Data) ofthe CDS (Centre de Donnees Astronomiques de Strasbourg). 2) the numberHIC of the HIPPARCOS catalogue (Turon 1992). 3) the CCDM number(Catalogue des Composantes des etoiles Doubles et Multiples) byDommanget & Nys (1994). For the cluster stars, a precise study hasbeen done, on the identificator numbers. Numerous remarks point out theproblems we have had to deal with.
| The formation of Be stars through close binary evolution
The possibility that Be stars are the remnants of case B mass transferin intermediate-mass close binaries is investigated. It is shown thatonly progenitors with mass ratios greater than a certain minimum valueq-min are capable of producing a Be star after the mass transfer. Thevalue of q-min lies between 0.3 and 0.5, depending on the evolutionparameters as well as on the observationally determined lower mass limitof Be/X-ray binaries. In more than 80 percent of the predicted systems,the evolved companion is an He star, particularly among the late-type Bstars; these systems may be detectable as XUV sources.
| The local system of early type stars - Spatial extent and kinematics
Published uvby and H-beta photometric data and proper motions arecompiled and analyzed to characterize the structure and kinematics ofthe bright early-type O-A0 stars in the solar vicinity, with a focus onthe Gould belt. The selection and calibration techniques are explained,and the data are presented in extensive tables and graphs and discussedin detail. The Gould belt stars of age less than 20 Myr are shown togive belt inclination 19 deg to the Galactic plane and node-lineorientation in the direction of Galactic rotation, while the symmetricaldistribution about the Galactic plane and kinematic properties (purecircular differential rotation) of the belt stars over 60 Myr oldresemble those of fainter nonbelt stars of all ages. The unresolveddiscrepancy between the expansion observed in the youngest nearby starsand the predictions of simple models of expansion from a point isattributed to the inhomogeneous distribution of interstellar matter.
| Radial velocities for early type stars in six galactic regions
Coudespectroscopy has been carried out for 353 stars of spectral typesB0-A0 and V magnitudes between 6.5 and 10.8 m, selected in six regions(three northern and three southern) close to the galactic plane at thegalactic longitudes 135, 175, 315 and 350 deg. The radial velocitieswere obtained by cross-correlating each spectrogram with a referencespectrogram giving an internal error of 1.4 km/s.
| Four-color and H-beta photometry for O-A0 type stars in three regions near the galactic equator
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| Stellar content of young open clusters. I - Blue stragglers. II - Be stars
The properties of the blue stragglers and Be stars found in openclusters younger than the Hyades are examined. Thirty-nine bluestragglers were detected at the left of the upper main sequence in thecolor-magnitude diagrams of 75 open clusters, with the frequency ofdetection noted to increase with cluster age. About half of thestragglers show peculiar abundance characteristics corresponding tospectral classes Am, Ap, Bp, Be and Of. The spectroscopic andphotometric behavior of the blue stragglers is, however, identical withthat of main sequence stars of the same type and peculiarity. It issuggested that the blue stragglers with peculiar spectroscopiccharacteristics may result from the evolution, perhapsquasi-homogeneous, of abnormal stars. Analysis of the absolutemagnitudes and dereddened colors calculated for 94 Be stars in 34 openclusters indicates the distribution to peak at spectral types B1-B2 andB7-B8, and in clusters with turn-up types at B1-B2. Cluster Be starsoccupy the whole main sequence band, and evolutionary states from nearlyunevolved to fully evolved. They may be classified according to theirposition on the color-magnitude diagram, with the distinctions betweenclasses also related to spectroscopic differences.
| Catalogue des étoiles mesurées dans le système photométrique de l'Observatoire de Genève
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| Constellation: | Gemini |
| Right ascension: | 06h08m56.54s |
| Declination: | +24°21'35.5" |
| Apparent magnitude: | 8.19 |
| Distance: | 1351.351 parsecs |
| Proper motion RA: | -0.8 |
| Proper motion Dec: | -2.5 |
| B-T magnitude: | 8.229 |
| V-T magnitude: | 8.194 |
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