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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…

We use our integrated SDSS photometry for 96 globular clusters in $g$ and $z$, as well as $r$ and $i$ photometry for a subset of 56 clusters, to derive the integrated colour-metallicity relation (CMR) for Galactic globular clusters. We…

We present a detailed analysis of the upper main sequence of the 1.3 Gyr old open cluster Trumpler 20. High accuracy BV photometry combined with the Very Large Telescope/FLAMES medium-resolution spectroscopy of 954 stars is essential to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 I. Platais , C. Melo , S. N. Quinn , J. L. Clem , S. E. de Mink , A. Dotter , V. Kozhurina-Platais , D. W. Latham , A. Bellini

We have used optical images acquired with the Hubble Space Telescope to construct the first high-resolution extinction map in the direction of Terzan 5, a peculiar stellar system in the inner bulge of our Galaxy. The map has a spatial…

Stellar models for -2.5 <= [Fe/H] <= -0.5 that have been computed for variations in the C:N:O abundance ratio (for two different values of [CNO/Fe]) are compared with HST Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) observations of the globular clusters…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Don A. VandenBerg , Luca Casagrande , Bengt Edvardsson

One crucial piece of information to study the origin of multiple stellar populations in globular clusters, is the range of initial helium abundances $\Delta{Y}$ amongst the sub-populations hosted by each cluster. These estimates are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Santi Cassisi , Maurizio Salaris , Adriano Pietrinferni , David Hyder

We measure the half-light radii of globular clusters (GCs) in 43 galaxies from the ACS Fornax Cluster Survey (ACSFCS). We use these data to extend previous work in which the environmental dependencies of the half-light radii of GCs in early…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Karen L. Masters , Andres Jordan , Patrick Cote , Laura Ferrarese , John P. Blakeslee , Leopolde Infante , Eric Peng , Simona Mei , Michael J. West

We apply clustering-based redshift inference to all extended sources from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey photometric catalogue, down to magnitude r = 22. We map the relationships between colours and redshift, without assumption of the…

We present new measurements of the centers for 65 Milky Way globular clusters. Centers were determined by fitting ellipses to the density distribution within the inner $2\arcmin$ of the cluster center, and averaging the centers of these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Ryan Goldsbury , Harvey B. Richer , Jay Anderson , Aaron Dotter , Ata Sarajedini , Kristin Woodley

We use HST/ACS observations of the spiral galaxy M51 in F435W, F555W and F814W to select a large sample of star clusters with accurate effective radius measurements in an area covering the complete disc of M51. We present the dataset and…

We report on HST observations of six candidate old globular clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud: NGC 1754, NGC 1835, NGC 1898, NGC 1916, NGC 2005 and NGC 2019. Deep exposures with the F555W and F814W filters provide us with…

We investigate the reddening and Main Sequence fitted distances to eleven young, Galactic open clusters that contain Cepheids. Each cluster contains or is associated with at least one Cepheid variable star. Reddening to the clusters is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Hoyle , T. Shanks , N. R. Tanvir

We present three 14400 square degree relative extinction maps of the Galactic Plane (|b|<20degrees) obtained from 2MASS using accumulative star counts (Wolf diagrams). This method is independent of the colour of the stars and the variation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Froebrich , T. P. Ray , G. C. Murphy , A. Scholz

We present wide field CCD photometry of a galactic globular cluster M92 obtained in the V and I bands with the CFH12K mosaic CCD at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. A well-defined color-magnitude diagram is derived down to 5 magnitudes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kang Hwan Lee , Hyung Mok Lee , Gregory G. Fahlman , Myung Gyoon Lee

A detailed map of the distribution of dust at high Galactic latitudes is essential for future cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization experiments because the dust, while diffuse, remains a significant foreground in these regions. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-16 Matthew O'Callaghan , Gerry Gilmore , Kaisey S. Mandel

Milky Way globular clusters (MW GCs) are difficult to identify at low Galactic latitudes because of high differential extinction and heavy star crowding. The new deep near-IR images and photometry from the VISTA Variables in the Via…

We present flux-calibrated integrated spectra in the optical range (3700-6800 \AA) obtained at Complejo Astron\'omico El Leoncito (CASLEO, Argentina) for a sample of 10 concentrated star clusters belonging to the Large Magellanic Cloud…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 Andrea V. Ahumada , Luis R. Vega , Juan J. Clariá , Mónica A. Oddone , Tali Palma

We present deep VI photometry of stars in the globular cluster M5 (NGC 5904) based on images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. The resulting color-magnitude diagram reaches below V ~ 27 mag, revealing the upper 2-3 magnitudes of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Andrew C. Layden , Ata Sarajedini , Ted von Hippel , Adrienne M. Cool

The near-infrared behavior of the red giant branch (RGB hereafter) as a function of abundance is examined with an unprecedented large sample of 27 Galactic globular clusters with Two Micron All Sky Survey photometry. We propose a new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Valentin D. Ivanov , Jordanka Borissova

In this paper we analyze data of 8 elliptical galaxies in order to study the difference between their globular cluster systems (GCSs) radial distributions and those of the galactic stellar component. In all the galaxies studied here the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta , Alessandra Mastrobuono-Battisti