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We present new number density and surface brightness profiles for the globular cluster M92 (NGC 6341). These profiles are calculated from optical images collected with the CCD mosaic camera MegaCam at the Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 A. Di Cecco , A. Zocchi , A. L. Varri , M. Monelli , G. Bertin , G. Bono , P. B. Stetson , M. Nonino , R. Buonanno , I. Ferraro , G. Iannicola , A. Kunder , A. R. Walker

We use our Galactic Globular Cluster Catalog (G2C2) photometry for 111 Galactic globular clusters (GC) in g and z, as well as r and i photometry for a subset of 60 GCs and u photometry for 22 GCs, to determine the structural parameters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Joachim Vanderbeke , Roberto De Propris , Sven De Rijcke , Maarten Baes , Michael J. West , John P. Blakeslee

Hubble Space Telescope allows us to study the central surface brightness profiles for globular clusters at unprecedented detail. We have mined the HST archives to obtain 38 WFPC2 images of galactic globular clusters with adequate exposure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Noyola , K. Gebhardt

We used resolved star counts from Hubble Space Telescope images to determine the center of gravity and the projected density profiles of 6 old globular clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), namely NGC 1466, NGC 1841, NGC 1898, NGC…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 B. Lanzoni , F. R. Ferraro , E. Dalessandro , M. Cadelano , C. Pallanca , S. Raso , A. Mucciarelli , G. Beccari , P. Focardi , -

We have used a proper combination of multiband high-resolution {\it HST-WFPC2} and wide-field ground based observations to image the galactic globular cluster NGC 6266 (M62). The extensive photometric data set allows us to determine the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Beccari , F. R. Ferraro , A. Possenti , E. Valenti , L. Origlia , R. T. Rood

In this paper, we present surface brightness profiles for 79 globular clusters in M31, using images observed with {\it Hubble Space Telescope}, some of which are from new observations. The structural and dynamical parameters are derived…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Song Wang , Jun Ma

We report on the structure of the nuclear star cluster in the innermost 0.16 pc of the Galaxy as measured by the number density profile of late-type giants. Using laser guide star adaptive optics in conjunction with the integral field…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Tuan Do , Andrea M. Ghez , Mark R. Morris , Jessica R. Lu , Keith Matthews , Sylvana Yelda , James Larkin

This paper is part of a series devoted to the study of the stellar populations in brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs), aimed at setting constraints on the formation and evolution of these objects. We have obtained high signal-to-noise ratio,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. I. Loubser , P. Sanchez-Blazquez , A. E. Sansom , I. K. Soechting

Using deep photometric data from WFC@INT and [email protected] we measure the outer number density profiles of 19 stellar clusters located in the inner region of the Milky Way halo (within a Galactocentric distance range of 10-30 kpc) in order to…

We present a combination of high-resolution Hubble Space Telescope and wide-field ground-based and Galaxy Evolution Explorer data of the Galactic Globular Cluster M10 (NGC6254). By using this large data-set we determined the center of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 E. Dalessandro , F. R. Ferraro , B. Lanzoni , R. P. Schiavon , R. W. O'Connell , G. Beccari

We collected radial velocities of more than 50.000 individual stars in 156 Galactic globular clusters (GGC) and matched them with HST photometry and Gaia DR2 proper motions. This allowed us to derive the GGC's mean proper motions and space…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-18 Michael Hilker , Holger Baumgardt , Antonio Sollima , Andrea Bellini

We present stellar and dark matter (DM) density profiles for a sample of seven massive, relaxed galaxy clusters derived from strong and weak gravitational lensing and resolved stellar kinematic observations within the centrally-located…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Andrew B. Newman , Tommaso Treu , Richard S. Ellis , David J. Sand

We have used a combination of multiband high-resolution and wide-field ground-based observations to image the Galactic globular cluster M75 (NGC 6864). The extensive photometric sample covers the entire cluster extension, from the very…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 R. Contreras Ramos , F. R. Ferraro , E. Dalessandro , B. Lanzoni , R. T. Rood

(Abridged) We report on the structure of the nuclear star cluster in the innermost 0.16 pc of the Galaxy as measured by the number density profile of late-type giants. Using laser guide star adaptive optics in conjunction with the integral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-02-10 Tuan Do , Andrea M. Ghez , Mark R. Morris , Jessica R. Lu , Keith Matthews , Sylvana Yelda , Shelley Wright , James Larkin

The central regions of six Galactic Globular Clusters (GGCs) (M3, M80, M10, M13, M92 and NGC 288) have been imaged using HST-WFPC2 and the ultraviolet (UV) filters (F255W, F336W). The selected sample covers a large range in both central…

We used a proper combination of multiband high-resolution and wide field multi-wavelength observations collected at three different telescopes (HST, LBT and CFHT) to probe Blue Straggler Star (BSS) populations in the globular cluster M53.…

Using data from Gaia DR2, we study the radial number density profiles of the Galactic globular cluster sample. Proper motions are used for accurate membership selection, especially crucial in the cluster outskirts. Due to the severe…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-20 T. J. L. de Boer , M. Gieles , E. Balbinot , V. Henault-Brunet , A. Sollima , L. L. Watkins , I. Claydon

[Abridged]: We present a database of structural and dynamical properties for 153 spatially resolved star clusters (50 "young massive clusters" and 103 old globulars) in the Milky Way, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, and the Fornax…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Dean E. McLaughlin , Roeland P. van der Marel

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

To probe the nature of stellar evolution in dense environments, we study the dense core of the globular cluster Messier 13 using pre-refurbishment Planetary Camera-I images obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope. We find 15 blue straggler…

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