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J/A+A/300/726                              BH 176 and AM-2     (Ortolani+, 1995)
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BH 176 and AM-2: globular or open clusters?
      Ortolani S., Bica E., Barbuy B.
     <Astron. Astrophys. 300, 726 (1995)>
     =1995A&A...300..726O      (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
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ADC_Keywords: Clusters, globular; Clusters, open; Photometry
Keywords: HR diagram - globular clusters: BH 176 - open clusters: AM-2

Description:
   We have obtained VI photometry for two low Galactic latitude star clusters:
   BH 176 and AM-2, using the 2.2m and the 3.5m NTT telescopes at ESO. Their
   VI colour-magnitude diagrams reveal that: BH 176 may be a globular cluster,
   or a border line object between a globular cluster and a disk cluster,
   showing a red horizontal branch and an extended red giant branch. We
   estimate E(B-V)=0.77 and d_{sun}_=13.4kpc. AM-2 appears to be an
   intermediate age open cluster, for which a reddening E(B-V)=0.44 and
   d_{sun}_=12.4kpc are estimated. It is located in the outer regions of
   the Galactic disk.

File Summary:
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  FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations
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ReadMe             80        .   This file
table2             53     2086   AM-2 coordinates, V magnitude and V-I colour
table3             53    11981   BH 176 coordinates, V magnitude and V-I colour
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2, table3
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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   5-  9  I5     ---     No       Star number
  14- 20  F7.2   pix     X        X coordinate
  25- 31  F7.2   pix     Y        Y coordinate
  37- 42  F6.3   mag     Vmag     V magnitude
  49- 53  F5.3   mag     V-I      (V-I) colour
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(End)                                        Patricia Bauer  [CDS]   06-Jan-1995
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