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A few years ago we started an observational campaign aimed at the thorough study of the massive and remote globular cluster NGC2419. We have used the collected data, e.g., to test alternative theories of gravitation, to constrain the…

(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 analyse complementary HST and SUBARU data for the globular cluster NGC 2419. We make a detailed analysis of the horizontal branch (HB), that appears composed by two main groups of stars: the luminous blue HB stars ---that extend by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Di Criscienzo , F. D'Antona , A. P. Milone , P. Ventura , V. Caloi , R. Carini , D'Ercole , E. Vesperini , G. Piotto

There is a growing body of evidence for the presence of multiple stellar populations in some globular clusters, including NGC 1851. For most of these peculiar globular clusters, however, the evidence for the multiple red giant-branches…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Sang-Il Han , Young-Wook Lee , Seok-Joo Joo , Sangmo Tony Sohn , Suk-Jin Yoon , Hak-Sub Kim , Jae-Woo Lee

NGC 2419 is a peculiar Galactic globular cluster in terms of size/luminosity, and chemical abundance anomalies. Here, we present Str\"omgren $uvby$ photometry of the cluster. Using the gravity- and metallicity-sensitive $c_1$ and $m_1$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-12 Matthias J. Frank , Andreas Koch , Sofia Feltzing , Nikolay Kacharov , Mark I. Wilkinson , Mike Irwin

We report on evidence of the inhomogeneity (multiplicity) of the stellar population in the Galactic globular cluster (GC) NGC 3201, which is irregularly reddened across its face. We carried out a more detailed and careful analysis of our…

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

The Hubble Space Telescope UV Legacy Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters is providing a major breakthrough in our knowledge of Globular Clusters (GCs) and their stellar populations. Among the main results, we discovered that all the…

Globular clusters represent stellar laboratories where observations can be used to validate models of stellar evolution. In this study, we put forth new ultraviolet (UV) photometric results of stars in the Galactic globular cluster NGC…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 Rashi Jain , S. Vig , S. K. Ghosh

Several recent studies have reported the detection of an anomalous color spread along the red giant branch (RGB) of some globular clusters (GC) that appears only when color indices including a near ultraviolet band (such as Johnson U or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 C. Lardo , M. Bellazzini , E. Pancino , E. Carretta , A. Bragaglia , E. Dalessandro

Recent spectroscopic observations of the outer halo globular cluster (GC) NGC 2419 show that it is unique among GCs, in terms of chemical abundance patterns, and some suggest that it was originated in the nucleus of a dwarf galaxy. Here we…

We use images acquired with the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 and new models to probe the Horizontal Branch (HB) population of the We use images acquired with the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 and new models to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-22 M. Di Criscienzo , M. Tailo , A. P. Milone , F. D'Antona , P. Ventura , A. Dotter , E. Brocato

We exploit multi-band Hubble Space Telescope photometry to investigate multiple populations (MPs) along the red horizontal branches (HBs) and red clumps of fourteen metal-rich Globular Clusters (GCs), including twelve Milky Way GCs and the…

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…

Recent work revealed that both the helium variation within globular clusters (GCs) and the relative numbers of first and second-generation stars (1G, 2G) depend on the mass of the host cluster. Precise determination of the internal helium…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 M. Zennaro , A. P. Milone , A. F. Marino , G. Cordoni , E. P. Lagioia , M. Tailo

In this study we present first results from multi-wavelength Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations of the Galactic globular cluster GC NGC2808 as an extension of the Hubble Space Telescope UV Legacy Survey of Galactic GCs (GO-13297 and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 A. P. Milone , A. F. Marino , G. Piotto , A. Renzini , L. R. Bedin , J. Anderson , S. Cassisi , F. D'Antona , A. Bellini , H. Jerjen , A. Pietrinferni , P. Ventura

This Letter presents the color distributions of the globular cluster (GC) systems of 12 Virgo elliptical galaxies, measured using data from the Hubble Space Telescope. Bright galaxies with large numbers of detected GC's show two distinct…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 Eric H. Neilsen, , Zlatan I. Tsvetanov

We report the results of an extensive VLT high-resolution imaging campaign of the central region of the giant globular cluster omega Centauri. More than 100,000 stars have been measured in the inner 9'x 9' region of the cluster. On the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-18 A. Sollima , F. R. Ferraro , E. Pancino , M. Bellazzini

We investigate the multiple stellar populations of the globular clusters M3, M5, M13, and M71 using $g^\prime$ and intermediate-band CN-$\lambda 3883$ photometry obtained with the WIYN 0.9-m telescope on Kitt Peak. We find a strong…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-13 William P. Bowman , Catherine A. Pilachowski , Liese van Zee , Amanda Winans , Robin Ciardullo , Caryl Gronwall

We seek to resolve the tension in the literature regarding the presence of radially segregated multiple populations in Galactic globular cluster M13. Previous studies of this nearby cluster have presented discordant results about the degree…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-18 Jason P. Smolinski , Willem B. Hoogendam , Alex J. Van Kooten , Peyton Benac , Zachary J. Bruce

We have carried out high-precision photometry on a large number of archival HST images of the Galactic globular cluster NGC 6752, to search for signs of multiple stellar populations. We find a broadened main sequence, and demonstrate that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 A. P. Milone , G. Piotto , I. R. King , L. R. Bedin , J. Anderson , A. F. Marino , Y. Momany , L. Malavolta , S. Villanova
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