THE ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL VOLUME 114, NUMBER 1, PAGE 198 JULY
1997 PROPERTIES OF THE MONOCEROS R2 STELLAR CLUSTER JOHN M.
CARPENTER Institute for Astronomy, 2680 Woodlawn Drive,
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 Electronic mail:
MICHAEL R. MEYER Max-Planck-Institut fur Astronomie, Konigstuhl
17, Heidelberg, Germany D-69117 Electronic mail: CATHERINE
DOUGADOS Laboratoire d'Astrophysique, Universite Joseph Fourier,
B.P. 53X, 38041 Grenoble Cedex, France Electronic mail: STEPHEN
E. STROM Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 Electronic mail:
LYNNE A. HILLENBRAND Department of Astronomy, University of
California, Berkeley, California 94720 Electronic mail: ABSTRACT
We present an extensive study of the stellar population of an
embedded cluster in the MonR2 molecular cloud based upon a wide
field (~15' x 15') J, H, and K band mosaic, deep near-infrared
imaging at J, H, K, and nbL' bands of the central cluster
region, and spectroscopic observations o