BATC 13 Band Photometry of the Open Cluster NGC 7789

Abstract

We present 13 band CCD intermediate-band spectrophotometry of a field centered on the open cluster NGC 7789 from 400 to nearly 1000 nm, taken with the Beijing-Arizona-Taiwan-Connecticut (BATC) Multi-Color Survey photometric system. By comparing observed spectral energy distributions of NGC 7789 stars with theoretical ones, the fundamental parameters of this cluster are derived: an age of 1.4 ± 0.1 Gyr, a distance modulus (m - M) 0 = 11.21 ± 0.04, a reddening E(B - V) = 0.28 ± 0.02, and a metallicity with the solar composition Z = 0.019. When the surface density profile for member stars with limiting magnitudes of 19.0 in the BATC e band (λ eff - 4925 Å) is fitted by a King model, a core radius R c = 7.52± and a tidal radius R t = 28.84′ are derived for NGC 7789. The observed mass function (MF) for main-sequence (MS) stars of NGC 7789 with masses from 0.95 to 1.85 M⊙ is fitted with a power-law function φ(m) ∝ m α , and a slope α = -0.96 is derived. Strong mass segregation in NGC 7789 is reflected in the significant variation of the concentration parameters C 0 = log(R t /R c ) for member stars of NGC 7789 within different mass ranges: C 0 = 1.02 for the most massive stars and C 0 = 0.37 for the lowest mass MS stars. Strong mass segregation in NGC 7789 is also indicated in the significant variation of the slopes α in different spatial regions of the cluster: the MF for stars within the core region has α = -0.71, much flatter than that for stars in external regions of the cluster (α = -1.20). © 2007. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.