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The open cluster NGC 6716

Journal Article · · Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific; (USA)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1086/132712· OSTI ID:6483243
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  1. Charles Hayden Planetarium, Boston, MA (USA) Western Connecticut State Univ., Danbury, CT (USA)

NGC 6716 is a young open star cluster in Sagittarius. Lindoff (1971) obtained photoelectric photometry for 12 stars and photographic UBV photometry for 115 stars in the cluster field down to V = 13.8. This work has been expanded to include more photoelectric standards and IRIS photometry for 332 stars in the cluster field down to V = 16. A reddening E(B-V) = 0.17 mag, a distance modulus of 8.69 + or - 0.15 mag (d = 547 pc), and an age of around 100 million years for the cluster are derived. Of the stars studied, 75 were judged as likely cluster members, 63 as possible members, and 194 as probable nonmembers. 13 refs.

OSTI ID:
6483243
Journal Information:
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific; (USA), Journal Name: Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific; (USA) Vol. 102; ISSN PASPA; ISSN 0004-6280
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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