期刊
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 448, 期 2, 页码 1779-1788出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv069
关键词
open clusters and associations: individual: NGC 6819; white dwarfs
资金
- STScI grant [GO-11688, GO-12669]
- NSERC Canada
- Fund FRQ-NT (Quebec)
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/J001465/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- STFC [ST/J001465/1] Funding Source: UKRI
We use Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to reach the end of the white dwarf (WD) cooling sequence (CS) in the solar-metallicity open cluster NGC 6819. Our photometry and completeness tests show a sharp drop in the number of WDs along the CS at magnitudes fainter than m(F606W) = 26.050 +/- 0.075. This implies an age of 2.25 +/- 0.20 Gyr, consistent with the age of 2.25 +/- 0.30 Gyr obtained from fits to the main-sequence turn-off. The use of different WD cooling models and initial-final-mass relations have a minor impact the WD age estimate, at the level of similar to 0.1 Gyr. As an important by-product of this investigation we also release, in electronic format, both the catalogue of all the detected sources and the atlases of the region (in two filters). Indeed, this patch of sky studied by HST (of size similar to 70 arcmin(2)) is entirely within the main Kepler-mission field, so the high-resolution images and deep catalogues will be particularly useful.
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