Department of Physics and Astronomy: Publications and Other Research
Date of this Version
8-1982
Abstract
Four-color and Hβ photometry is given for early-type stars in the open cluster NGC 6664. From these data the true distance modulus is found to be 10.7 and the reddening is found to range from E (b – y) = 0.48 to 0.63 across the cluster. The distance modulus agrees well with some values from the literature, but the present color excesses are about 0.1 mag larger than published values. There are two or perhaps three blue stragglers in the cluster and its age is estimated to be 46 × 106 yr.
Comments
Published in THE ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL VOLUME 87, NUMBER 8, AUGUST 1982, pp. 1197-1201. @ 1982 Am. Astron. Soc. Used by permission.