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Determination of the fundamental properties of an M31 globular cluster from main-sequence photometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2013

Jun Ma
Jun Ma*
Affiliation:
National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100012, P. R. China email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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We determined the age of the M31 globular cluster B379 using isochrones of the Padova stellar evolutionary models. At the same time, the cluster's metal abundance, its distance modulus, and reddening value were also obtained. The results obtained in this paper are consistent with previous determinations, including the age. Brown et al. constrained the age of B379 by comparing its color–magnitude diagram with isochrones of the 2006 VandenBerg models. Therefore, this paper confirms the consistency of the age scale of B379 between the Padova isochrones and the 2006 VandenBerg isochrones. The results of B379 obtained in this paper are: metallicity [M/H] = log(Z/Z⊙) = −0.325 dex, age τ = 11.0 ± 1.5 Gyr, reddening E(B − V) = 0.08 mag, and distance modulus (m − M)0 = 24.44 ± 0.10 mag. Using the metallicity, the reddening value and the distance modulus obtained in this paper, we constrained the age of B379 by comparing its multicolor photometry with theoretical stellar population synthesis models. The age of B379 obtained is 10.6−0.76+0.92 Gyr, which is in very good agreement with the determination from main-sequence photometry.

Keywords

galaxies: individual (M31)galaxies: stellar content
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 8 , Symposium S289: Advancing the Physics of Cosmic Distances , August 2012 , pp. 398 - 401
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2013

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