Monitor NGC 2547 data release: Version 1.0

Published: 21 Jan 2008

As part of the Monitor project (Aigrain et al. 2007, MNRAS, 375, 29), a time-domain survey of NGC 2547 was carried out in I-band using the ESO Wide Field Imager mounted on the 2.2m telescope at La Silla, Chile. The survey covers two fields, or ~0.6 sq. deg, observed as adjacent WFI pointings, with a small overlap (~10%). The majority of the survey consists of the I-band time-domain component, observed with a cadence of ~7 minutes. Exposures in V and R bands were also obtained during photometric conditions and good seeing, to produce colour-magnitude diagrams.
All of the data fall under the large programme 175.C-0685, which also includes a similar survey in Blanco-1 (incomplete), and was intended to include a further survey in NGC 2516, which has since been dropped.

The first publication using these data is Irwin et al. 2007, MNRAS, submitted (title "Rotation of low-mass stars in the open cluster NGC 2547"), which contains a membership and rotation analysis, in addition to a description of the reductions.

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