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The stellar metallicity is a direct measure of the amount of metals present in a galaxy, as a large part of the metals lie in its stars. In this paper we investigate new stellar metallicity indicators suitable for high-z galaxies studying…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Veronica Sommariva , Filippo Mannucci , Giovanni Cresci , Roberto Maiolino , Alessandro Marconi , Tohru Nagao , Andrea Baroni , Andrea Grazian

We present new calibrations of the near-infrared surface brightness fluctuation (SBF) distance method for the F110W (J) and F160W (H) bandpasses of the Wide Field Camera 3 Infrared Channel (WFC3/IR) on the Hubble Space Telescope. The…

We have obtained broad-band near-infrared photometry for seven Galactic star clusters (M92, M15, M13, M5, NGC1851, M71 and NGC6791) using the WIRCam wide-field imager on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, supplemented by images of NGC1851…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Crystal Brasseur , Peter B. Stetson , Don A. VandenBerg , Luca Casagrande , Giuseppe Bono , Massimo Dall'Ora

(Abriged) A new grid of theoretical color indices for the Stromgren uvby photometric system has been derived from MARCS model atmospheres and SSG synthetic spectra for cool dwarf and giant stars. At warmer temperatures this grid has been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. L. Clem , D. A. VandenBerg , F. Grundahl , R. A. Bell

The optical color distributions of globular clusters (GCs) in most large elliptical galaxies are bimodal. Based on the assumed linear relationship between GC colors and their metallicities, the bimodality has been taken as evidence of two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Suk-Jin Yoon , Sangmo T. Sohn , Sang-Yoon Lee , Hak-Sub Kim , Jaeil Cho , Chul Chung , John P. Blakeslee

We present a homogeneous metallicity analysis of old stellar populations in Local Volume (LV) galaxies using data from the CMDs/TRGB catalog of the Extragalactic Distance Database (EDD; http://edd.ifa.hawaii.edu), which provides uniformly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-21 Lidia N. Makarova , Denis G. Purytin , R. Brent Tully , Gagandeep S. Anand

We present the complete photometric database and the color-magnitude diagrams for 74 Galactic globular clusters observed with the HST/WFPC2 camera in the F439W and F555W bands. A detailed discussion of the various reduction steps is also…

Victoria-Regina isochrones for $-0.4 \le$ [alpha/Fe] $\le +0.4$ and a wide range in [Fe/H], along with complementary zero-age horizontal branch (ZAHB) loci, have been applied to the color-magnitude diagram (CMD) of Carina. The color…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Don A. VandenBerg , Peter B. Stetson , Thomas M. Brown

We used the data of 701 stars covering the colour index interval 0.32<B-V<=1.16, with metallicities -1.76<=[Fe/H]<=+0.40 dex, which were taken from PASTEL catalogue and estimated metallicity dependent guillotine factors which provide a more…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 S. Karaali , S. Bilir , S. Ak , E. Yaz , B. Coskunoglu

We present new accurate measurements of the physical properties of a statistically significant sample of 103 galaxies at z~2 using near-infrared spectroscopy taken as part of the 3D-HST survey. We derive redshifts, metallicities and star…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-09 F. Cullen , M. Cirasuolo , R. J. McLure , J. S. Dunlop

We present metallicity and photometric parallax calibrations for the F and G type dwarfs with photometric, astrometric and spectroscopic data. The sample consists of 168 dwarf stars covering the colour, iron abundance and absolute magnitude…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-15 S. Tuncel Guctekin , S. Bilir , S. Karaali , S. Ak , T. Ak , Z. F. Bostanci

We use the Stetson, HST, and Gaia DR3 data sets for 22 Galactic globular clusters to select their members and fit their CMDs with isochrones from DSED and BaSTI for $[\alpha/$Fe$]=+0.4$ and an adopted helium mass fraction $Y$. As a result,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-28 G. A. Gontcharov , O. S. Ryutina , C. J. Bonatto , S. S. Savchenko , S. V. Troitsky

In the study of galaxy integrated light, if photometric indicators could extract age and metallicity information of high enough quality, photometry might be vastly more efficient than spectroscopy for the same astrophysical goals. Toward…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Baitian Tang , Guy Worthey

Based on a carefully constructed sample of dwarf stars, a new optical-near infrared photometric calibration to estimate the metallicity of late-type K and early-to-mid-type M dwarfs is presented. The calibration sample has two parts; the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Neda Hejazi , Michael M. De Robertis , Peter C. Dawson

Using the theoretical stellar population synthesis models of BC96, Kong et al. (2003) showed that some BATC colors and color indices could be used to disentangle the age and metallicity effect. They found that there is a very good relation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Jun Ma , Xu Zhou , Jiansheng Chen

The fundamentals of estimating essential stellar parameters of an open cluster-NGC 2360 and globular clusters-NGC 5272 are presented extensively in this work. Here, the evaluation of stellar parameters, by manually fitting the appropriate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-09 Kanwar Preet Kaur , Pankaj S. Joshi

We present a new calibration of the seven-color Vilnius system in terms of [Fe/H], applicable to F-M stars in the metallicity range -2.8<[Fe/H]<+0.5. We employ a purely empirical approach, based on ~1000 calibrating stars with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 S. Bartasiute , S. Raudeliunas , J. Sperauskas

Stars in massive star clusters exhibit intrinsic variations in some light elements (MPs) that are difficult to explain in a coherent formation scenario. In recent years, HST photometry has led to the characterisation of the global…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-29 Carmela Lardo , Maurizio Salaris , Santi Cassisi , Nate Bastian

Stellar evolutionary tracks for $0.12 \le M/M_\odot \le 1.0$ have been computed for each of several variations in the abundances of C, N, and O, assuming mass-fraction helium abundances $Y = 0.25$ and $0.29$, and 11 metallicities in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Don A. VandenBerg