A study of intermediate-mass stars in Trumpler 37

We present results from optical spectra for intermediate-mass stars in the young cluster Trumpler 37. The spectroscopy presented helps to re ne the membership, reddening ( A(V) similar to 1.5 +/- 0.5), and distance modulus [ (m-M) = 9. 7 +/- 0.2] to this cluster. Only three new emission-line stars were found in our sample, resulting in a total of four stars in the cluster with emission lines and spectral type earlier than G. One of these emission-line stars, LkHalpha 349, is probably not a member of the central cluster, since it lies within a dark globule on the periphery of the H II region IC 1396. Thus, at an age of about 3 Myr, as estimated from the expansion age of molecular material around the cluster, emission-line phenomena possibly driven by disk accretion are extremely rare through spectral types F (masses not greater than or equal to 1.5 M-circle dot).