Astron. Astrophys. 363, 617-628 (2000)

Acknowledgements

ESO is thanked for the provision of their MAMA detector. We are grateful to the 6-m telescope Program Committee of the RAS for observing time allocation. We thank the engineers of SAO RAS, A. Maksimov for help in equipment preparation for the observations and the Director of SAO RAS Yu. Balega for arranging the observations. Dr Ray Butler of NUI, Galway is thanked for his assistance during the course of the photometric analysis. This work was supported by the Russian Foundation of Fundamental Research (98-02-17570), State programme "Astronomy", Russian Ministry of Science and Technical Politics, and the Science-Educational Centre "Cosmion", and funded under the INTAS programme. The support of Enterpise Ireland, the Irish Research and Development agency, is very gratefully acknowledged. Finally, we would like to thank the anonymous referee's considerable effort and wise counsel in contributing towards the final version.

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