Astron. Astrophys. 324, 556-565 (1997)

Acknowledgements

First of all, we thank D. Alexander and K. Eriksson for providing us with new opacity tables and cool atmosphere models, respectively. We are also grateful to D. C. Prosser for making his database on open clusters available to us prior to publication. We also wish to thank the anonymous referee for constructive comments which have improved this paper. Part of the computations presented in this paper were performed at the "Center de Calcul Intensif de l'Observatoire de Grenoble". Most of them have been realized at "IMAG" on a IBM SP1 computer financed by the MESR, CNRS and Région Rhône-Alpes.

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