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[Abridged] When WFC3 is installed on HST, the community will have powerful new tools for investigating resolved stellar populations. The WFC3 Galactic Bulge Treasury program will obtain deep imaging on 4 low-extinction fields. These…

The HST/WFC3 multiband photometry spanning from the UV to the near-IR of four fields in the Galactic bulge, together with that for six template globular and open clusters, are used to photometrically tag the metallicity [Fe/H] of stars in…

We present an analysis of Galactic bulge stars from Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) observations of the Stanek window (l,b=[0.25,-2.15]) from two epochs approximately two years apart. This dataset is adjacent to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 Sean K. Terry , Richard K. Barry , David P. Bennett , Aparna Bhattacharya , Jay Anderson , Matthew T. Penny

The Galactic Bulge has long been assumed to be a largely old stellar population. However, some recent studies based on observations with the HST WF/PC-1 and WFPC2 of stars in the Galactic Bulge have concluded that the old population may not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sofia Feltzing , Gerard Gilmore

The exoplanets discovered so far have been mostly around relatively nearby and bright stars. As a result, the host stars are mostly (i) in the Galactic disk, (ii) relatively massive, and (iii) relatively metal rich. The aim of the SWEEPS…

The stellar metallicity is a direct measure of the amount of metals present in a galaxy, as a large part of the metals lie in its stars. In this paper we investigate new stellar metallicity indicators suitable for high-z galaxies studying…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Veronica Sommariva , Filippo Mannucci , Giovanni Cresci , Roberto Maiolino , Alessandro Marconi , Tohru Nagao , Andrea Baroni , Andrea Grazian

We present a high precision photometric view of the stellar populations in the outer halo of M31, using data taken with the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys (HST/ACS). We analyse the field populations adjacent to 11…

The host star metallicity provide a measure of the conditions in protoplanetary disks at the time of planet formation. Using a sample of over 20,000 Kepler stars with spectroscopic metallicities from the LAMOST survey, we explore how the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 Gijs D. Mulders , Ilaria Pascucci , Daniel Apai , Antonio Frasca , Joanna Molenda-Zakowicz

We present the analysis of the atmospheres of 70 gaseous extrasolar planets via transit spectroscopy with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). For over half of these, we statistically detect spectral modulation which our retrievals…

We investigate the large scale metallicity distribution in the Galactic bulge, using a large spatial coverage, in order to constrain the bulge formation scenario. We use the VISTA variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) survey data and 2MASS…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 O. A. Gonzalez , M. Rejkuba , M. Zoccali , E. Valenti , D. Minniti , R. Tobar

AIMS:The aim of this paper is to study the characteristics of the stellar populations and the metallicity distribution in the Galactic bulge. We study the entire stellar population, but also retrieve information using only the red clump…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-19 E. Vanhollebeke , M. A. T. Groenewegen , L. Girardi

(Abriged) We report results of a campaign to image the stellar populations in the halos of highly inclined spiral galaxies, with the fields roughly 10 kpc (projected) from the nuclei. We use the F814W (I) and F606W (V) filters in the Wide…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Mouhcine , R. M. Rich , H. C. Ferguson , T. M. Brown , T. E. Smith

We measure a relation between the depth of four prominent rest-UV absorption complexes and metallicity for local galaxies and verify it up to z~3. We then apply this relation to a sample of 224 galaxies at 3.5 < z < 6.0 (<z> = 4.8) in…

We present an analysis of $UBVRI$ data from the Selected Area SA 141. By applying recalibrated methods of measuring ultraviolet excess (UVX), we approximate abundances and absolute magnitudes for 368 stars over 1.3 square degrees out to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael H. Siegel , Yuksel Karatas , I. Neill Reid

We present a new determination of the metallicity distribution, age, and luminosity function of the Galactic bulge stellar population. By combining near-IR data from the 2MASS survey, from the SOFI imager at ESO NTT and the NICMOS camera on…

We present a population study of 20 exoplanets, ranging from Neptune-like to inflated hot-Jupiter planets, observed during transit with the STIS and WFC3 instruments aboard the Hubble Space Telescope. To obtain spectral information from the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-31 Arianna Saba , Alexandra Thompson , Kai Hou Yip , Sushuang Ma , Angelos Tsiaras , Ahmed Faris Al-Refaie , Giovanna Tinetti

We compute the chemical evolution of the Galactic bulge to explain the existence of two main stellar populations recently observed. After comparing model results and observational data we suggest that the old more metal poor stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 V. Grieco , F. Matteucci , A. Pipino , G. Cescutti

Using data from the WISE mission, we have measured near infra-red (NIR) photometry of a diverse sample of dust-free stellar systems (globular clusters, dwarf and giant early-type galaxies) which have metallicities that span the range -2.2 <…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Mark A. Norris , Sharon Meidt , Glenn Van de Ven , Eva Schinnerer , Brent Groves , Miguel Querejeta

We report on the gas-phase metallicity gradients of a sample of 264 star-forming galaxies at 0.6 < z < 2.6, measured through deep near-infrared Hubble Space Telescope slitless spectroscopy. The observations include 12-orbit depth…

We present photometry and long-slit spectroscopy for 12 S0 and spiral galaxies selected from the Catalogue of Isolated Galaxies. The structural parameters of the sample galaxies are derived from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey i-band images by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-05 L. Morelli , M. Parmiggiani , E. M. Corsini , L. Costantin , E. Dalla Bontà , J. Mèndez-Abreu , A. Pizzella
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