- UBVI CCD PHOTOMETRY OF THE OPEN CLUSTER NGC559
- ㆍ 저자명
- ANN. HONG BAE,LEE. SANG HYUN
- ㆍ 간행물명
- Journal of the Korean astronomical society
- ㆍ 권/호정보
- 2002년|35권 1호|pp.29-34 (6 pages)
- ㆍ 발행정보
- 한국천문학회
- ㆍ 파일정보
- 정기간행물| PDF텍스트
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- 기타
We have conducted UBVI CCD photometry of an intermediate-age open cluster NGC 559 to investigate the effect of dynamical evolution on the stellar distributions in NGC 559. Our photometry allows better estimates of distance and age of the cluster owing to much deeper photometry (V $le$ 21) than previous ones. It is found that the luminosity function and mass function as well as the spatial stellar distributions are affected by the dynamical evolution. Mass segregation leads to the central concentration of the high mass stars, which results in the flattened mass function inside the half mass radius.