We present metallicities and radial velocities for five old open clusters (NGC 6791, NGC 2420, NGC 2682, NGC 2158, and NGC 7789) using data from the seventh public data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS...We present metallicities and radial velocities for five old open clusters (NGC 6791, NGC 2420, NGC 2682, NGC 2158, and NGC 7789) using data from the seventh public data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), which includes the directed stellar program SEGUE: Sloan Extension For Galactic Understanding and Exploration. The radial velocities are used to calculate cluster membership probabilities for stars in each cluster region. NGC 6791, NGC 2420, NGC 2682, NGC 2158 and NGC 7789 are found to have mean metallicities [Fe/H]= +0.08 ± 0.09, -0.38± 0.11, -0.08±0.05, -0.41 ±0.13 and -0.19 ± 0.13 dex (s.d.), respectively. The mean radial velocities for NGC 6791, NGC 2420, NGC 2682, NGC 2158 and NGC 7789 are Vr = -45.9 ± 0.2, +76.1 ± 0.2, +35.0 ± 0.2, +26.9 ± 0.2 and -48.2± 0.2 km s^-1(s.e.m.), respectively. We have compared our results with the values from literatures, and found that our metallicity of NGC 6791 is significantly underestimated (by about 0.3 dex) and our radial velocities of the open clusters agree well with the values derived using high-resolution spectroscopy.展开更多
基金funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.10773021)the Key Project No.10833005+1 种基金the Group Innovation Project No.10821302the 973 program with NKBRSFG 2007CB815403
文摘We present metallicities and radial velocities for five old open clusters (NGC 6791, NGC 2420, NGC 2682, NGC 2158, and NGC 7789) using data from the seventh public data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), which includes the directed stellar program SEGUE: Sloan Extension For Galactic Understanding and Exploration. The radial velocities are used to calculate cluster membership probabilities for stars in each cluster region. NGC 6791, NGC 2420, NGC 2682, NGC 2158 and NGC 7789 are found to have mean metallicities [Fe/H]= +0.08 ± 0.09, -0.38± 0.11, -0.08±0.05, -0.41 ±0.13 and -0.19 ± 0.13 dex (s.d.), respectively. The mean radial velocities for NGC 6791, NGC 2420, NGC 2682, NGC 2158 and NGC 7789 are Vr = -45.9 ± 0.2, +76.1 ± 0.2, +35.0 ± 0.2, +26.9 ± 0.2 and -48.2± 0.2 km s^-1(s.e.m.), respectively. We have compared our results with the values from literatures, and found that our metallicity of NGC 6791 is significantly underestimated (by about 0.3 dex) and our radial velocities of the open clusters agree well with the values derived using high-resolution spectroscopy.