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Reddening estimation for halo red giants using UVBY photometry
Updated uvby observations for a larger sample of metal-deficient redgiants are presented and combined with a select sample of data from theliterature transformed to a common system. Using the reddening maps ofBurstein & Heiles (1982), new absolute magnitudes, distances,metallicities, and reddenings are derived for each star. Themetallicities are determined with a revised calibration of them1, (b-y) diagram based upon comparison to a complilation ofrecent spectrsoscopic abundances transformed to a common system. Thephotometric abundances agree very well with the spectroscopic; thedispersion among the residuals for 58 giants is +/- 0.16 dex. Thedereddened indices are used to show that for red giants with (Fe/H) lessthan -1.5, there is a well-defined relation in the c0,(b-y)0 diagram which exhibits only a weak dependence uponmetallicity. Use of the standard relations allows one to obtainreddening estimates for normal halo field giants and globular clustersin the appropriate metallicity range.
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| Constellation: | Triangulum Australe |
| Right ascension: | 15h30m54.79s |
| Declination: | -61°40'57.1" |
| Apparent magnitude: | 8.22 |
| Distance: | 250.627 parsecs |
| Proper motion RA: | 1.3 |
| Proper motion Dec: | -22.8 |
| B-T magnitude: | 9.566 |
| V-T magnitude: | 8.332 |
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