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In this paper we present the analysis of Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations of the globular cluster Omega Centauri. Our analysis combines data obtained in this work with previously published HST data from an earlier article of this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-31 Michele Scalco , Luigi Bedin , Enrico Vesperini

We present an observational far-UV (FUV) and near-UV (NUV) study of the core region of the globular cluster NGC 6397. The observations were obtained with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS, FUV), and the Wide Field Camera 3…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 Andrea Dieball , Armin Rasekh , Christian Knigge , Michael Shara , David Zurek

We have used ESO telescopes at La Silla and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in order to obtain accurate B,V,I CCD photometry for the stars located within 200" (~= 2 half-mass radii, r_h = 1.71') from the center of the cluster NGC 6101.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Marconi , G. Andreuzzi , L. Pulone , S. Cassisi , V. Testa , R. Buonanno

The UV-initiative Hubble Space Telescope Treasury survey of Galactic globular clusters provides a new window into the phenomena that shape the morphological features of the horizontal branch (HB). Using this large and homogeneous catalog of…

We present new Blue Straggler Star (BSS) catalogs in 38 Milky Way globular clusters (GCs) based on multi-passband and multi-epoch treasury survey data from the Hubble Space Telescope. We measure precise astrometry and relative proper…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-01 Mirko Simunovic , Thomas H. Puzia

Using HST-WFPC2 observations in two ultraviolet (UV) filters (F225W and F336W) of the central region of the high density Galactic Globular cluster (GGC) M80 we have identified 305 Blue Straggler Stars (BSS) which represents the largest and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Francesco R. Ferraro , Barbara Paltrinieri , Robert T. Rood , Ben Dorman

We present the first dynamical study of Blue Straggler Stars (BSSs) in three Galactic globular clusters, NGC\,3201, NGC\,5139 ($\omega$Cen), and NGC\,6218, based on medium-resolution spectroscopy (R 10000) obtained with IMACS. Our BSS…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Mirko Simunovic , Thomas H. Puzia

We use high-precision photometry of red-giant-branch (RGB) stars in 57 Galactic globular clusters (GCs), mostly from the `Hubble Space Telescope (HST) UV Legacy Survey of Galactic globular clusters', to identify and characterize their…

Ultraviolet observations are the best tool to study hot stellar populations which emit most of their light at short wavelengths. As part of a large project devoted to the characterization of the UV properties of Galactic globular clusters…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 E. P. Lagioia , E. Dalessandro , F. R. Ferraro , B. Lanzoni , M. Salaris

Context. The study of blue straggler stars (BSS) provides insight into the mechanisms of stellar mass exchange during binary stellar evolution and the complex gravitational interactions within dense stellar systems. In combination, they…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-16 Francisco F. Carrasco-Varela , Prasanta K. Nayak , Thomas H. Puzia

[Abridged] We present the results of the HST B-Band Parallel Survey (BBPS). It covers 0.0370 sq. deg. and consists of 31 shallow (4-6 orbit), randomly selected high latitude HST WFPC2 parallel fields with images taken in both the B (F450W)…

We use Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and ground-based imaging to study the multiple populations of 47 Tuc, combining high-precision photometry with calculations of synthetic spectra. Using filters covering a wide range of wavelengths, our…

We discuss the main properties of the Galactic globular cluster (GC) blue straggler stars (BSS), as inferred from our new catalog containing nearly 3000 BSS. The catalog has been extracted from the photometrically homogeneous V vs. (B-V)…

We present a detailed investigation of the radial distribution of blue straggler star and binary populations in the Galactic globular cluster NGC 5466, over the entire extension of the system. We used a combination of data acquired with the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 G. Beccari , E. Dalessandro , B. Lanzoni , F. R. Ferraro , A. Sollima , M. Bellazzini , P. Miocchi

The presence of Multiple Stellar Populations (MSPs) in Galactic Globular Clusters (GCs) is a poorly understood phenomenon. By probing different spectral ranges that are affected by different absorption lines using the multi-band photometric…

We have obtained deep photometry of NGC 1199 (in HCG 22) and NGC 6868 (in the Telescopium group). Both galaxies are the optically brightest galaxies of their groups. Our analysis of B and R images taken with the Keck II and the VLT/ESO…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 C. Da Rocha , C. Mendes de Oliveira , M. Bolte , B. L. Ziegler , T. H. Puzia

We present high spatial resolution, far ultraviolet (FUV) F140LP observations of 12 massive globular clusters in M 31 obtained using the ACS/SBC on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). These observations resolve the cluster profiles to scales…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-19 Mark Peacock , Stephen Zepf , Thomas Maccarone , Arunav Kundu , Christian Knigge , Andrea Dieball , Jay Strader

In this paper we describe a new UV-initiative HST project (GO-13297) that will complement the existing F606W and F814W database of the ACS Globular Cluster (GC) Treasury by imaging most of its clusters through UV/blue WFC3/UVIS filters…

Thanks to its exceptional near-infrared photometry, JWST can effectively contribute to the discovery, characterization, and understanding of multiple stellar populations in globular clusters, especially at low masses where the Hubble Space…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-04 M. Scalco , M. Libralato , R. Gerasimov , L. R. Bedin , E. Vesperini , D. Nardiello , A. Bellini , M. Griggio , D. Apai , M. Salaris , A. Burgasser , J. Anderson

We make use of the Hubble Space Telescope proper-motion catalogs derived by Bellini et al. (2014) to produce the first radial velocity-dispersion profiles sigma(R) for blue straggler stars (BSSs) in Galactic globular clusters (GCs), as well…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 A. T. Baldwin , L. L. Watkins , R. P. van der Marel , P. Bianchini , A. Bellini , J. Anderson