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We describe a first attempt to apply adaptive optics to the study of resolved stellar populations in galaxies. Advantages over traditional approaches are (i) improved spatial resolution and point-source sensitivity through adaptive optics,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. R. Bedding , D. Minniti , F. Courbin , B. Sams

Observations of massive stars in young open clusters (< ~8 Myr) have shown that a majority of them are in binary systems, most of which will interact during their life. Populations of massive stars older than ~20 Myr allow us to probe the…

This is the second paper in our series about the search for multiple populations in Magellanic Cloud star clusters using the Hubble Space Telescope. Here we report the detection of multiple stellar populations in the colour-magnitude…

We present a study of Far Ultraviolet (FUV) bright horizontal branch (HB) stars to understand the peculiarities seen in the HB sequence of the Globular Cluster NGC 1851, using ground and space based multi-wavelength data. Optical and UV…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-16 Gaurav Singh , Snehalata Sahu , Annapurni Subramaniam , R. K. S. Yadav

We have developed an analytical method to investigate the stellar populations in a galaxy using the broad-band colours. The method enables us to determine the relative contribution, spatial distribution and age for different stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hamed Abdel-Hamid , Peter Notni

We have analyzed populations of blue straggler stars (BSSs) in 24 Magellanic Cloud star clusters using multi-passband Hubble Space Telescope images. We compiled a homogeneous BSS database, containing both traditional and evolved BSSs. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Weijia Sun , Chengyuan Li , Richard de Grijs , Licai Deng

We study the globular cluster system (GCS) of the giant elliptical NGC4374 (M84) in the Virgo cluster using B and R photometry. The colour distribution is bimodal with peaks at B-R=1.11 and B-R=1.36, fitting well to those found in other…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Gomez , T. Richtler

Spectral analysis is a powerful tool to investigate stellar properties and it has been widely used for decades now. However, the methods considered to perform this kind of analysis are mostly based on iteration among a few diagnostic lines…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 J-M. Mugnes , C. Robert

We present an extensive photometry on HB, RGB, and MSTO stars in Omega Cen. The central regions of the cluster were covered with a mosaic of F435W, F625W, and F658N-band data collected with ACS/HST. The outer reaches were covered with a…

We constructed a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) astro-photometric catalog of the central region of the Galactic globular cluster NGC 1261. This catalog, complemented with Gaia DR2 data sampling the external regions, has been used to estimate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-27 S. Raso , M. Libralato , A. Bellini , F. R. Ferraro , B. Lanzoni , M. Cadelano , C. Pallanca , E. Dalessandro , G. Piotto , J. Anderson , S. T. Sohn

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 , -

We used the HST WFPC2 to obtain I-band images of the centers of 81 brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs), drawn from a volume-limited sample of nearby BCGs. The images show a rich variety of morphological features, including multiple or double…

We present new deep photometry of the rich globular cluster (GC) systems around the Brightest Cluster Galaxies UGC 9799 (Abell 2052) and UGC 10143 (Abell 2147), obtained with the HST ACS and WFC3 cameras. For comparison, we also present new…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-25 W. E. Harris , S. M. Ciccone , G. M. Eadie , O. Y. Gnedin , D. Geisler , B. Rothberg , J. Bailin

We present a wide-field study of the globular cluster system (GCS) of the field lenticular galaxy NGC 1172, based on observations from GMOS/Gemini (optical), FourStar/Magellan (NIR), and archival data from ACS/HST (optical). This analysis…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-11 Ana Inés Ennis , Juan Pablo Caso , Lilia Patricia Bassino , Ricardo Salinas , Matías Gómez

We study an intermediate-age open cluster NGC 2506 using the \textit{ASTROSAT}/UVIT data and other archival data. We identified 2175 cluster members using a machine learning-based algorithm, ML--MOC, on Gaia EDR3 data. Among the cluster…

We use Hubble Space Telescope imaging to study the globular cluster system of the Virgo Cluster ultradiffuse galaxy (UDG) VCC 615. We select globular cluster candidates through a combination of size and color, while simultaneously rejecting…

We present a multi-passband photometric study of the Blue Straggler Star (BSS) population in the Galactic globular cluster (GC) NGC\,1261, using available space- and ground-based survey data.~The inner BSS population is found to have two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Mirko Simunovic , Thomas H. Puzia , Alison Sills

The globular cluster M79 was observed with the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT) during the Astro-1 space shuttle mission in 1990 December. The cluster's far-UV integrated spectrum shows strong absorption in the Lyman lines of atomic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 W. Van Dyke Dixon , Arthur F. Davidsen , Ben Dorman , Harry Ferguson

(Abriged)This work studies in more detail the stellar population, including its photometric properties and characteristics, in the rarely studied southern Galactic globular cluster NGC 1261. We focus on the brighter sequences of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 V. Kravtsov , G. Alcaino , G. Marconi , F. Alvarado

We exploit stellar population models of absorption line indices in the ultraviolet (from 2000 - 3200 Angstrom) to study the spectra of massive galaxies. Our central aim is to investigate the occurrence at high-redshift of the UV upturn,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-07 Claire Le Cras , Claudia Maraston , Daniel Thomas , Donald G. York