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We present the CMD from deep HST imaging in the globular cluster NGC 6397. The ACS was used for 126 orbits to image a single field in two colors (F814W, F606W) 5 arcmin SE of the cluster center. The field observed overlaps that of archival…

We present James Webb Space Telescope observations of the globular cluster NGC 6397 and use them to extend to infrared wavelengths the characterization of the cluster's entire white dwarf (WD) cooling sequence (CS). The data allows us to…

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We study the globular cluster system (GCS) of the giant elliptical NGC4374 (M84) in the Virgo cluster using B and R photometry. The colour distribution is bimodal with peaks at B-R=1.11 and B-R=1.36, fitting well to those found in other…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Gomez , T. Richtler

We study luminosity and morphology segregation of over 3000 cluster galaxies in an ensemble cluster of 59 rich, nearby galaxy clusters observed in the ESO Nearby Cluster Survey (ENACS). Within this sample we identify those galaxies that are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Biviano , P. Katgert , T. Thomas , C. Adami

We have studied the high-mass star-forming complex NGC 6334 with ALMA in the continuum emission at a frequency of 87.6 GHz, achieving a spatial resolution of 1300 au. Detecting 142 compact sources distributed over the whole observed area,…

High-precision multi-band HST photometry reveals that the main sequence (MS) of the globular cluster NGC 6397 splits into two components, containing ~30% and ~70% of the stars. This double sequence is consistent with the idea that the…

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We analyze proper motions from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the second Gaia data release along with line-of-sight velocities from the MUSE spectrograph to detect imprints of an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) in the center of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-17 Eduardo Vitral , Gary A. Mamon

We used a combination of Hubble Space Telescope and ground based data to probe the dynamical state of the low mass Galactic globular cluster NGC 6101. We have re-derived the structural parameters of the cluster by using star counts and we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-09 E. Dalessandro , F. R. Ferraro , D. Massari , B. Lanzoni , P. Miocchi , G. Beccari

We present an observational far-UV (FUV) and near-UV (NUV) study of the core region of the globular cluster NGC 6397. The observations were obtained with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS, FUV), and the Wide Field Camera 3…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 Andrea Dieball , Armin Rasekh , Christian Knigge , Michael Shara , David Zurek

We describe Monte Carlo models for the dynamical evolution of the nearby globular cluster NGC 6397. The code includes treatments of two-body relaxation, most kinds of three- and four-body interactions involving primordial binaries and those…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Giersz , D. C. Heggie

Deep imaging data from the Keck II telescope are employed to study the globular cluster (GC) populations in the cores of six rich Abell clusters. The sample includes A754, A1644, A2124, A2147, A2151, and A2152, and spans the redshift range…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 John P. Blakeslee

This is the second of two papers presenting a detailed examination of Fokker-Planck models for the globular cluster NGC 6397 and is concerned with extracting information on the cluster from the models. The models give a current cluster mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. A. Drukier

Shells in Elliptical Galaxies are faint, sharp-edged features, believed to provide evidence of a recent ($\sim 0.5 - 2 \times 10^9$ years ago) merger event. We analyse the Globular Cluster (GC) systems of six shell elliptical galaxies, to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Sikkema , R. F. Peletier , D. Carter , E. A. Valentijn , M. Balcells

The level of mass segregation in the core of globular clusters has been previously proposed as a potential indicator of the dynamical constituents of the system, such as presence of a significant population of stellar-mass black holes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-27 Ruggero de Vita , Michele Trenti , Morgan MacLeod

The physical properties of star cluster populations offer valuable insights into their birth, evolution, and disruption. However, individual stars in clusters beyond the nearest neighbours of the Milky Way are unresolved, forcing analyses…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-24 Jianling Tang , Kathryn Grasha , Mark R. Krumholz

The dense central region of NGC 6397 contains three classes of stars whose origins are likely related to stellar interactions: blue stragglers, cataclysmic variables, and probable helium white dwarfs. We summarize results concerning CVs and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Adrienne M. Cool , Adam S. Bolton

By combining high spatial resolution and wide-field spectroscopy performed, respectively, with SINFONI and FLAMES at the ESO/VLT we measured the radial velocities of more than 600 stars in the direction of NGC 6388, a Galactic globular…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 B. Lanzoni , A. Mucciarelli , L. Origlia , M. Bellazzini , F. R. Ferraro , E. Valenti , P. Miocchi , E. Dalessandro , C. Pallanca , D. Massari , -

We describe here the reduction methods that we developed to study the faintest red dwarfs and white dwarfs in an outer field of NGC6397, which was observed by \hst for 126 orbits in 2005. The particular challenge of this data set is that…

We show the results of deep V and I HST photometry of 6 rich star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud with different ages and metallicities. The number of stars with measured magnitudes in each cluster varies from about 3000 to 10000. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 B. Santiago , S. Beaulieu , R. Johnson , G. Gilmore