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Membership of low-mass stars in the open cluster Alpha Persei
The results of a combined astrometric, photometric, and spectroscopicsearch for low-mass members in the intermediate-age open cluster AlphaPersei are presented. Over 130 low-mass new members have been identifiedto M(v) about 12.5, almost doubling the previous number of knownmembers. The new membership information suggests a slight upwardrevision of Alpha Per's age to about 8 x 10 exp 7 yr. Alpha Per isnoticeably spatially elongated in a direction parallel to the Galacticplane, most likely due to tidal deformation. Analysis of thedistribution of relative H-alpha emission strengths among Alpha Permembers confirms the view that the mean H-alpha strength decreases inincreasingly older systems. Allowing for survey incompleteness, onecannot reject the idea that the luminosity function is consistent withthe field luminosity function to M(v) about 9 or 10.
| Measurements of 258 radial velocities in two fields near Alpha Per
Abstract image available at:http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?1987A&AS...68..515F&db_key=AST
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| Constellation: | Περσεύς |
| Right ascension: | 03h25m22.66s |
| Declination: | +50°47'39.4" |
| Apparent magnitude: | 10.301 |
| Proper motion RA: | 8.6 |
| Proper motion Dec: | -18.1 |
| B-T magnitude: | 10.84 |
| V-T magnitude: | 10.346 |
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