\begin{table}%t2 \caption{\label{Cal-mean-sigma}Metallicity calibrations evaluated in Sect.~\ref{Sect:met}.} %\centering \par \begin{tabular}{l l l l l r r l} \hline \hline \noalign{\smallskip} Reference & \multicolumn{2}{c}{$(b-y)_0$} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{[Fe/H]} & \multirow{2}{*}{$\langle$[Fe/H]$-$[M/H]$\rangle$ $\pm$ $\sigma$} & \multirow{2}{*}{Comment} \\ & min & max & min & max & & \\ \hline Olsen (1984) & 0.29 & 1.00 & --2.60 & 0.39 & 0.11 $\pm$ 0.34 & Their Eq.~(15)\\ & 0.514 & 1.000 & --2.60 & 0.39 & 0.04 $\pm$ 0.39 & Their Eq.~(15)\\ & 0.514 & 1.000 & --0.25 & 0.60 & 0.02 $\pm$ 0.17 & Their Eq.~(16) \\ Schuster \& Nissen (1989b) & 0.22 & 0.38 & --3.5 & 0.2 & \multirow{2}{*}{0.06 $\pm$ 0.16} & F-type dwarfs \\ & 0.37 & 0.59 & --2.6 & 0.4 & & G-type dwarfs \\ Haywood (2002) & 0.22 & 0.59 & --2.0 & 0.5 & 0.00 $\pm$ 0.18 & \\ Martell \& Laughlin (2002) & 0.288 & 0.591 & --2.0 & 0.5 & 0.05 $\pm$ 0.13 &\\ Martell \& Smith (2004) & 0.288 & 0.591 & --2.0 & 0.5 & 0.06 $\pm$ 0.21 &\\ Nordstr\"{o}m et~al. (2004)& 0.18 & 0.38 & --2.0 & 0.8 & --0.17 $\pm$ 0.52 &\\ & 0.44 & 0.59 & --2.0 & 0.8 & 0.13 $\pm$ 0.08 & \\ Ram\'{i}rez \& Mel\'{e}ndez (2005a) & 0.19 & 0.35 & --3.5 & 0.4 & \multirow{2}{*}{0.04 $\pm$ 0.14} & F-type dwarfs \\ & 0.35 & 0.80 & --2.5 & 0.4 & & G-type dwarfs \\ Holmberg et~al. (2007) & 0.24 & 0.63 & --1.00 & 0.37 & 0.08 $\pm$ 0.16 &\\ \hline \"{O}nehag et~al. (2008) & 0.22 & 0.59 & --3.5 & 0.4 & 0.33 $\pm$ 0.30 &\\ \hline \end{tabular} \tablefoot {Column 1 lists the reference for the calibration. In Cols.~2 to~5 we quote the ranges, for for $(b-y)_0$ and [Fe/H], within which the calibrations is valid. Column~6 gives the mean difference between [Fe/H] and [M/H] and the associated $\sigma$. Column~7 provides additional comments.} \end{table}