Abstract:
We have carried out multicolor linear polarimetry (U BV RI) of the brightest stars in the area of the open cluster Trumpler 27. Our data show a high level of polarization in the stellar light with a considerable dispersion, from P = 4% to P = 9.5%. The polarization vectors of the cluster members appear to be aligned. Foreground polarization was estimated from the data of some nonmember objects, for which two different components were resolved: the first one associated with a dust cloud close to the Sun producing Pλmax = 1.3% and θ = 146°, and a second component, the main source of polarization for the cluster members, originating in another dust cloud, which polarizes the light in the direction of θ = 29°.5. From a detailed analysis, we found that the two components have associated values EB-V < 0.45 for the first one and EB-V > 0.75 for the other. Due the difference in the orientation of both polarization vectors, almost 90° (180° at the Stokes representation), the first cloud (θ ∼ 146°) depolarizes the light strongly polarized by the second one (θ ∼ 29°.5).
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Título: | The highly polarized open cluster trumpler 27 |
Autor: | Feinstein, C.; Baume, G.; Vazquez, R.; Niemela, V.; Cerruti, M.A. |
Filiación: | Observatorio Astronómico, Paseo del Bosque, B1900FWA La Plata, Argentina Inst. Astronomia y Fisica Espacio, CC 67, Sucursal 28, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina Carrera del Investigador Cientifico, CIC, Prov. Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Palabras clave: | Dust, extinction; Open clusters and associations: individual (Trumpler 27) |
Año: | 2000
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Volumen: | 120
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Número: | 4
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Página de inicio: | 1906
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Página de fin: | 1912
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/301562 |
Título revista: | Astronomical Journal
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Título revista abreviado: | Astron. J.
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ISSN: | 00046256
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Registro: | https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00046256_v120_n4_p1906_Feinstein |
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Citas:
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Feinstein, C., Baume, G., Vazquez, R., Niemela, V. & Cerruti, M.A.
(2000)
. The highly polarized open cluster trumpler 27. Astronomical Journal, 120(4), 1906-1912.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/301562---------- CHICAGO ----------
Feinstein, C., Baume, G., Vazquez, R., Niemela, V., Cerruti, M.A.
"The highly polarized open cluster trumpler 27"
. Astronomical Journal 120, no. 4
(2000) : 1906-1912.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/301562---------- MLA ----------
Feinstein, C., Baume, G., Vazquez, R., Niemela, V., Cerruti, M.A.
"The highly polarized open cluster trumpler 27"
. Astronomical Journal, vol. 120, no. 4, 2000, pp. 1906-1912.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/301562---------- VANCOUVER ----------
Feinstein, C., Baume, G., Vazquez, R., Niemela, V., Cerruti, M.A. The highly polarized open cluster trumpler 27. Astron. J. 2000;120(4):1906-1912.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/301562