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We take advantage of the exquisite quality of the Hubble Space Telescope 26-filter astro-photometric catalog of the core of Omega Cen presented in the first paper of this series and the empirical differential-reddening correction presented…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-09 A. Bellini , A. P. Milone , J. Anderson , A. F. Marino , G. Piotto , R. P. van der Marel , L. R. Bedin , I. R. King

The majority of Galactic globular clusters (GCs) contain multiple stellar populations displaying specific chemical abundance variations. In particular, GCs generally contain a `primordial' population with abundances similar to field stars,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-01 E. Leitinger , H. Baumgardt , I. Cabrera-Ziri , M. Hilker , E. Pancino

A complete census of Blue Horizontal Branch (BHB) and Blue Straggler Star (BSS) population within the 10$'$ radius from the center of the Globular Cluster, NGC 288 is presented, based on the images from the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-04 Snehalata Sahu , Annapurni Subramaniam , Patrick Côté , N. Kameswara Rao , Peter B. Stetson

Asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars play a key role in the enrichment of galaxies with heavy elements. Due to their large amplitude variability, the measurement of elemental abundances is a highly challenging task that has not been solved…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-05 Thomas Lebzelter , Walter Nowotny , Kenneth H. Hinkle , Susanne Höfner , Bernhard Aringer

The Bright Star in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae (NGC 104) is a post-AGB star of spectral type B8 III. The ultraviolet spectra of late-B stars exhibit a myriad of absorption features, many due to species unobservable from the ground. The…

Recent work with JWST has demonstrated its capability to identify and chemically characterize multiple populations in globular clusters down to the H-burning limit. In this study, we explore the kinematics of multiple populations in the…

Using our ingeniously designed new filter systems, we investigate the multiple stellar populations of the RGB and AGB in the GC M5. Our results are the following. (1) Our cn_jwl index accurately traces the nitrogen abundances in M5, while…

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We identify a vertical extension of the red clump stars in the color magnitude diagram (CMD) of a section of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). After subtracting the principal red clump component, we find a peak in the residual stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Dennis Zaritsky , D. N. C. Lin

High-resolution Hubble Space Telescope optical observations have been used to analyze the stellar population and the structure of the poorly investigated bulge globular cluster NGC 6316. We constructed the first high-resolution reddening…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-25 Dan Deras , Mario Cadelano , Francesco Ferraro , Barbara Lanzoni , Cristina Pallanca

We present the first results of a deep WFPC2 photometric survey of the loose galactic globular cluster NGC 288. The fraction of binary systems is estimated from the color distribution of objects near the Main Sequence (MS) with a method…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Bellazzini , F. Fusi Pecci , M. Messineo , L. Monaco , R. T. Rood

We present aluminium abundances for a sample of about 100 red giant stars in each of the Galactic globular clusters 47 Tuc (NGC 104) and M 4 (NGC 6121). We have derived homogeneous abundances from intermediate-resolution FLAMES/GIRAFFE…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Eugenio Carretta , Raffaele Gratton , Angela Bragaglia , Valentina D'Orazi , Sara Lucatello

We study the abundances of Na, Mg, and K in the atmospheres of 32 RGB stars in the Galactic globular cluster (GGC) 47 Tuc, with the goal to investigate the possible existence of Na-K and Mg-K correlations/anti-correlations, similar to those…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 A. Černiauskas , A. Kučinskas , J. Klevas , D. Prakapavičius , S. Korotin , P. Bonifacio , H. -G. Ludwig , E. Caffau , M. Steffen

Until now, the study of unresolved main sequence binary stars in globular clusters has been possible almost exclusively in their central regions with deep Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations. We present the first detection of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-15 Giacomo Cordoni , Luca Casagrande , Helmut Jerjen

We present V and I photometry for a field 5' from the center of 47 Tuc. The field was imaged with the HST WFPC2 as part of the Medium Deep Survey project. The luminosity function (LF) continually rises in the domain $5 < M_I < 9$ with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Basilio X. Santiago , Rebecca A. W. Elson , Gerard F. Gilmore

The color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of young star clusters show that, particularly at ultraviolet wavelengths, their upper main sequences (MSs) bifurcate into a sequence comprising the bulk population and a blue periphery. The spatial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Yujiao Yang , Chengyuan Li , Richard de Grijs , Licai Deng

We present Hubble Space Telescope (HST) photometric results for NGC 6402, a highly reddened very luminous Galactic globular cluster (GC). Recent spectroscopic observations of its red giant stars have shown a quite peculiar behavior in the…

High-precision multi-band HST photometry reveals that the main sequence (MS) of the globular cluster NGC 6397 splits into two components, containing ~30% and ~70% of the stars. This double sequence is consistent with the idea that the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. P. Milone , A. F. Marino , G. Piotto , L. R. Bedin , J. Anderson , A. Aparicio , S. Cassisi , R. M. Rich

We have constructed the Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs) of a sample of Blue Straggler Stars (BSSs) in the core of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae, taking advantage of the large set of high resolution images, ranging from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 S. Raso , C. Pallanca , F. R. Ferraro , B. Lanzoni , A. Mucciarelli , L. Origlia , E. Dalessandro , A. Bellini , M. Libralato , J. Anderson , -

Precise studies on the Galactic bulge, globular cluster, Galactic halo and Galactic thick disk require stellar models with alpha enhancement and various values of helium content. These models are also important for extra-Galactic population…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 Xiaoting Fu , Alessandro Bressan , Paola Marigo , Leo Girardi , Josefina Montalban , Yang Chen , Ambra Nanni

We performed deep photometry of the central region of Galactic globular cluster M15 from archival Hubble Space Telescope data taken on the High Resolution Channel and Solar Blind Channel of the Advanced Camera for Surveys. Our data set…