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WOCS Variability: Monitoring NGC6939. S. Kafka (IUB) D. Gibbs II (Univ. of Wyoming) A. Henden (US Naval Obs.) R.K.Honeycutt (IUB). BGSU, April 3, 2004. W IYN O pen C luster S tudy. Establish a standard database of open clusters. Age Reddening Metallicity Abundances - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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WOCS Variability: Monitoring NGC6939 S. Kafka (IUB) D. Gibbs II (Univ. of Wyoming) A. Henden (US Naval Obs.) R.K.Honeycutt (IUB) BGSU, April 3, 200
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  • WOCS Variability:Monitoring NGC6939S. Kafka (IUB)D. Gibbs II (Univ. of Wyoming) A. Henden (US Naval Obs.) R.K.Honeycutt (IUB)BGSU, April 3, 2004

  • WIYN Open Cluster StudyAgeReddeningMetallicity AbundancesAstrometric infoVariability

    http://www.astro.ufl.edu/~ata/wocs/Establish a standard database of open clusters

  • Our motivation:Cataclysmic VariablesInteracting binariesWD accretes H-rich material from its low-mass, Roche-lobe filling companionUnique natural laboratories for studyingAccretion PhysicsClassical NovaeSNe Ia progenitors ?

  • Why Open Clusters?Bonus: age, distance, metallicity Not many CVs known in globular/open clustersOnly 3 CVs known in all open clusters!

  • NGC 6939 Age = 1.6 0.3 Gyr

    0.29 < E(B-V) < 0.41

    12.21 < m-M < 12.39 (Rosvick & Balam 2002)

    [Fe/H] = -0.140.13(Friel et al 2002)

    Variability study : 6 vars(Robb & Cardinal 1998)

    Credit: J. Burkle, D. Gibbs, D. Hoffmann, S. Kafka,WIYN 0.9m, IU REU 2003

  • Data

  • NGC 6939USNOFS 1.3mR- filterNGC 6939WIYN 0.9mEN

  • Data Reduction

  • CMD

  • Results

  • ResultsP=0.5668d P=1.143d P>95d

  • Oddities

  • NGC 6939USNOFS 1.3mR- filter

  • OdditiesGlushkova & Rastorguev 1991Monet et al. 2003 (USNO-B)

  • Conclusions:

  • Conclusions: No CVs found in the cluster Cluster depleted of faint variables???Future work: X-rays? More data! More Clusters!

    Kafka et al, 2004, AJ, 127, 1622


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