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I-band CCD images of a large area of the nearby globular cluster NGC~6397 have been used to construct a surface density profile and two luminosity and mass functions. The surface density profile extends out to 14\arcm from the cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 G. A. Drukier , G. G. Fahlman , H. B. Richer , L. Searle , I. Thompson

We have investigated the properties of the stellar mass function in the globular cluster NGC6397 using a large set of HST observations that include WFPC2 images in V and I, obtained at ~4' and 10' radial distances, and a series of deep…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Guido De Marchi , Francesco Paresce , Luigi Pulone

We present (V,V-I) VLT-FORS1 observations of the Galactic Globular Cluster NGC 6397. We derive accurate color--magnitude diagrams and luminosity functions (LFs) of the cluster Main Sequence (MS) for two fields extending from a region near…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Andreuzzi , V. Testa , G. Marconi , G. Alcaino , F. Alvarado , R. Buonanno

We present a detailed analysis of the kinematics of the Galactic globular cluster NGC 6397 based on more than ~18,000 spectra obtained with the novel integral field spectrograph MUSE. While NGC 6397 is often considered a core collapse…

Second-epoch HST observations of NGC 6397 have led to the measurement of proper motions accurate enough to separate the faintest cluster stars from the field, thus extending the luminosity function of this globular cluster far enough to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ivan R. King , Jay Anderson , Adrienne M. Cool , Giampaolo Piotto

We have conducted a photometric survey of the globular cluster NGC 6397 in a search for variable stars. We obtained ~11h of time-resolved photometric images with one ne European Southern Observatory-Very Large Telescope using the FOcal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 E. Martinazzi , S. O. Kepler , J. E. S. Costa

We present VLT (FORS1) photometry of the lower main sequence (MS) of the Galactic Globular Cluster (GGC) NGC 6397, for stars located in 2 fields extending from a region near the cluster center out to ~ 10'. The obtained CMD shows a narrow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Andreuzzi , V. Testa , G. Marconi , G. Alcaino , F. Alvarado , R. Buonanno

We present N-body models to complement deep imaging of the metal-poor core-collapsed cluster NGC6397 obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope. All simulations include stellar and binary evolution in-step with the stellar dynamics and…

We search for mass segregation in the intermediate-aged open cluster NGC 6819 within a carefully identified sample of probable cluster members. Using photometry from the Gaia, 2MASS, and Pan-STARRS surveys as inputs for a Bayesian…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-05 Claire Zwicker , Aaron M. Geller , Anna C. Childs , Erin Motherway , Ted von Hippel

Model surface brightness profiles based on Fokker-Planck simulations have been used to assess the high resolution surface brightness profile of the globular cluster NGC 6397 of Lauzeral et al. (1992). The profile is well fitted by the model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 G. A. Drukier

We analyse Gaia EDR3 and re-calibrated HST proper motion data from the core-collapsed and non core-collapsed globular clusters NGC 6397 and NGC 3201, respectively, with the Bayesian mass-orbit modelling code MAMPOSSt-PM. We use Bayesian…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-13 Eduardo Vitral , Kyle Kremer , Mattia Libralato , Gary A. Mamon , Andrea Bellini

We begin by presenting the analysis of a set of deep B- and V-band images of the central density cusp of the globular cluster M30 (NGC 7099), taken with the Faint Object Camera aboard the Hubble Space Telescope. These images are the first…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Craig Sosin

We present the results of a new study of mass segregation in two-component star clusters, based on a large number of numerical N-body simulations using our recently developed dynamical Monte Carlo code. Specifically, we follow the dynamical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. M. Fregeau , K. J. Joshi , S. F. Portegies Zwart , F. A. Rasio

We have determined the amount of stellar mass segregation in over 50 globular clusters and ultra-faint dwarf galaxy candidates based on deep HST and ground-based photometry. We find that the amount of mass segregation in globular clusters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-22 Holger Baumgardt , Johannes Faller , Nicholas Meinhold , Chandler McGovern-Greco , Michael Hilker

If NGC 6397 contains a large fraction of "second generation" stars (>70% according to recent analysis), the helium abundance of its stars might also be affected, show some star-to-star variation, and be larger than the standard Big Bang…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Di Criscienzo , F. D'Antona , P. Ventura

From deep color-magnitude arrays made from V and I images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope's WFPC2 camera we have determined luminosity functions (LFs) down to a level that corresponds to about 0.13 solar masses, for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 G. Piotto , A. M. Cool , I. R. King

Multi-epoch observations with ACS on HST provide a unique and comprehensive probe of stellar dynamics within NGC 6397. We are able to confront analytic models of the globular cluster with the observed stellar proper motions. The measured…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 J. S. Heyl , H. Richer , J. Anderson , G. Fahlman , A. Dotter , J. Hurley , J. Kalirai , R. M. Rich , M. Shara , P. Stetson , K. A. Woodley , D. Zureko

Aims. We demonstrate the high multiplex advantage of crowded field 3D spectroscopy using the new integral field spectrograph MUSE by means of a spectroscopic analysis of more than 12,000 individual stars in the globular cluster NGC 6397.…

We use multi-pointing HST ACS and wide field Subaru Suprime-Cam imaging to study the globular cluster system of the L* elliptical galaxy NGC 4278. We have also obtained a handful of new globular cluster spectra with Keck/DEIMOS. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-26 Christopher Usher , Duncan A. Forbes , Lee R. Spitler , Jean P. Brodie , Aaron J. Romanowsky , Jay Strader , Kristin A. Woodley

We have studied the stellar main sequence (MS) of the globular cluster NGC2298 using deep HST/ACS observations in the F606W and F814W bands covering an area of 3.4' x 3.4' around the cluster centre or about twice the cluster's half-mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Guido De Marchi , Luigi Pulone
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