Nadia Kaltcheva, Kevin Moran, Thomas Gehrman, Valeri Golev

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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Oshkosh, USA.
Department of Astronomy, Faculty of Physics, St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria.
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Abstract: A photometric study in the uvbyβ system of a 20° × 20° field in direction of the Cas OB6 and Per OB1 associations is presented. All currently available uvbyβ photoelectric data are used to obtain homogeneous color excesses and distances of nearly 230 stars of spectral types O-B9. The double cluster h & χ Per, NGC 663 and NGC 1502 are well represented in our sample. The sample also contains the brightest members of the young open clusters IC 1805, IC 1848, St 2, St 7 and ASCC9. We found that, within the errors, h & χ Per, NGC 663, IC 1805, IC 1848 and ASCC9, together with the Per OB1 association are located at very similar distance moduli between 11.0 to 11.3 mag. Our results indicate that the distance spread among these objects is less than the previously estimated, suggested that they could represent starforming complexes located at the same distance.

Keywords: Open Clusters and Associations: Individual (NGC 869); Open Clusters and Associations: Individual (NGC 884); Open Clusters and Associations: Individual (Per OB1); Open Clusters and Associations: Individual (NGC 663); Open Clusters and Associations: Individual (NGC 1502)

Cite this paper: N. Kaltcheva, K. Moran, T. Gehrman and V. Golev, "Homogeneous Distances to Several Stellar Groups in the Second Galactic Quadrant," International Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 3 No. 3, 2013, pp. 10-17. doi: 10.4236/ijaa.2013.33A002.

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