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J/ApJ/549/578     BV photometry of Trumpler 14 and 16  (Degioia-Eastwood+, 2001)
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The star formation history of Trumpler 14 and Trumpler 16.
    Degioia-Eastwood K., Throop H., Walker G., Cudworth K.M.
   <Astrophys. J. 549, 578 (2001)>
   =2001ApJ...549..578D
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ADC_Keywords: Clusters, open ; Stars, pre-main sequence ; Photometry, CCD ;
              Photometry, UBV
Keywords: stars: formation - stars: pre-main-sequence

Abstract:
    H-R diagrams are presented for the very young galactic clusters
    Trumpler 14 and Trumpler 16, which are the two most populous clusters
    in the region of vigorous star formation surrounding {eta} Carinae.
    Point spread function photometry of UBV CCD images is presented down
    to V~19 for over 560 stars in Tr 16 and 290 stars in Tr 14. We have
    also obtained similar data for a local background field. After
    determining cluster membership through proper motions from a previous
    work, we find that the reddening of cluster members is significantly
    lower than that of the local background stars. Thus, we are able to
    use individual reddenings to identify likely members at far deeper
    levels than possible with proper motions. This work has revealed a
    significant population of pre-main-sequence (PMS) stars in both
    clusters. The location of the PMS stars in the H-R diagram indicates
    that the theoretical "stellar birthline" of Palla & Stahler
    (1990ApJ...360L..47P, follows the locus of stars far better than that
    of Beech & Mitalas (1994ApJS...95..517B). Comparison with both pre-
    and post-main-sequence isochrones also reveals that although
    intermediate-mass stars have been forming continuously over the last
    10Myr, the high-mass stars formed within the last 3Myr. There is no
    evidence that the formation of the intermediate-mass stars was
    truncated by the formation of the high-mass stars.

File Summary:
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 FileName    Lrecl  Records   Explanations
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ReadMe          80        .   This file
table1.dat      41      290   Trumpler 14: new photometry and
                               astrometric positions for J2000
table2.dat      41      563   Trumpler 16: new photometry and
                               astrometric positions for J2000
table3.dat      52       74   Cross-identifications for some stars
table4.dat      60       24   Stars used for spectroscopic parallax
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See also:
    J/A+AS/116/75 : Region of the open cluster Tr 14 (Vazquez+, 1996)
    J/AJ/105/980  : Stellar content of Tr 14 and Tr 16 (Massey+ 1993)

Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat table2.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   1-  2  I2    h       RAh       Right ascension (J2000) (1)
   4-  5  I2    min     RAm       Right ascension (J2000) (1)
   7- 11  F5.2  s       RAs       Right ascension (J2000) (1)
      13  A1    ---     DE-       Declination sign (J2000) (1)
  14- 15  I2    deg     DEd       Declination (J2000) (1)
  17- 18  I2    arcmin  DEm       Declination (J2000) (1)
  20- 23  F4.1  arcsec  DEs       Declination (J2000) (1)
  25- 29  F5.2  mag     Vmag      V band magnitude
  31- 35  F5.2  mag     B-V       The B-V color
  37- 40  F4.2  mag     U-B       ? The U-B color
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Note (1): The full designation of a star in these tables, as recommended
    by the IAU, is Tr 14:DETWC JHHMMSS.s{+/-}DDMMSS for Tr 14 and Tr
    16:DETWC JHHMMSS.s{+/-}DDMMSS for Tr 16 where the coordinates have
    been truncated, not rounded. The acronym ``DETWC'' indicates the
    authors, and the prefix ``J'' indicates that the coordinates are for J2000.
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   1- 29  A29   ---     DETWC     Star designation
  31- 36  A6    ---     Fes       Feinstein et al., 1973A&AS...12..331F,
                                   designation, Cl Trumpler NN NNN in Simbad
  38- 40  I3    ---     MJ        ? Massey & Johnson, 1993, Cat. <J/AJ/105/980>
                                   designation, Cl* Trumpler NN MJ NNN in Simbad
  42- 52  A11   ---     Other     Other names (1)
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Note (1): A "Y" designation refers to the numbering in Cudworth et al., 1993,
     Cat. <J/AJ/105/1822>, Cl* Trumpler 14 Y NNN in Simbad.
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table4.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   1- 11  A11   ---     Name      Name (1)
  13- 14  I2    %       Memb      Membership probability
  16- 24  A9    ---     SpType    Spectral type
  26- 27  A2    ---   r_SpType    Reference for spectral type (2)
  29- 33  F5.2  mag     Vmag      V magnitude
  35- 38  F4.2  mag     B-V       B-V colour index
  40- 43  F4.1  mag     VMAG      Absolute V magnitude
  45- 49  F5.2  mag     (B-V)0    Dereddened B-V colour index
  51- 54  F4.2  mag     AV        Absorption in V band
  56- 60  F5.2  mag     V0-MV     Dereddened minus absolute V magnitude
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Note (1): Stars which are from neither the HD nor CPD catalog are referred to by
      their numbering designated in Feinstein et al., 1973A&AS...12..331F.
Note (2): References:
      W: Walborn, 1973ApJ...179..517W
      M: Morrell et al., 1988PASP..100.1431M
     MJ: Massey & Johnson, 1993, Cat. <J/AJ/105/980>
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History:
    From electronic version of the journal
    In table3.dat, one correction on 12-Jul-2001
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(End)                    Greg Schwarz [AAS], Patricia Bauer [CDS]    17-May-2001

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