A&A Supplement Series, Vol. 126, November II 1997, 81-90
Received July 7, 1996; accepted February 27, 1997
D.C. Foster
- P.B. Byrne -
S.L. Hawley
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W.R.J. Rolleston
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Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, N. Ireland
e-mail: dcf@star.arm.ac.uk, pbb@star.arm.ac.uk
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing,
MI 48824-1116, U.S.A.
e-mail: slh@pillan.pa.msu.edu
Dept. of Pure and Applied Physics, The Queen's University of Belfast,
Belfast BT7 1NN, N. Ireland
e-mail: R.Rolleston@Queens-Belfast.ac.uk
We present the results of VRI photometry of the young open cluster
IC 2602. Two 
fields were observed in
February and May 1991 using the 1-m Swope telescope at Las Campanas. Using
theoretical isochrones obtained from D'Antona & Mazzitelli
(1994), and allowing for observational and other
uncertainties, we identify 78 primary candidate members with 12<V<18.5
from their positions on colour-magnitude diagrams. We compare
the cluster field with an offset field of similar galactic latitude and
estimate the contamination due to background stars to be large,
, as might be expected given its low galactic latitude. We
also compare our photometry with that given for the X-ray detected
stars of Randich et al. (1995). We present complimentary
narrow band 
photometry for a subset of the stars.
keywords: stars: evolution -- stars: late-type -- open clusters: individual; IC 2602