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We present the first detailed 3D kinematic analysis of a sample of 3133 white dwarfs that use Gaia astrometry plus radial velocities, which were measured either by Gaia or by ground based spectroscopic observations. The sample includes…

In HST Cycle 17, we imaged the well known globular star cluster 47 Tucanae for 121 orbits using ACS and both the UVIS and IR channels of WFC3 (GO-11677, PI - H. Richer). This unique data set was obtained to address many scientific questions…

We present a robust statistical analysis of the white dwarf cooling sequence in 47 Tucanae. We combine HST UV and optical data in the core of the cluster, Modules for Experiments in Stellar Evolution (MESA) white dwarf cooling models, white…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 Ryan Goldsbury , Jeremy Heyl , Harvey Richer , Jason Kalirai , Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay

This paper is the second in a series where we report the results of the long-term timing of the millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in 47 Tucanae with the Parkes 64-m radio telescope. We obtain improved timing parameters that provide additional…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-03 P. C. C. Freire , A. Ridolfi , M. Kramer , C. Jordan , R. N. Manchester , P. Torne , J. Sarkissian , C. O. Heinke , N. D'Amico , F. Camilo , D. R. Lorimer , A. G. Lyne

We use near-infrared observations obtained as part of the {\sl Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy} (VISTA) Survey of the Magellanic Clouds (VMC), as well as two complementary {\sl Hubble Space Telescope} ({\sl HST}) data…

This paper investigates the discrepancy between recent measurements of the density profile of the globular cluster 47 Tuc that have used HST data sets. Guhathakurta et al. (1992) used pre-refurbishment WFPC1 V-band images to derive r_c =…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-18 Justin H. Howell , Puragra Guhathakurta , Ronald L. Gilliland

The first generation of transiting planet searches in globular clusters yielded no detections, and in hindsight, only placed occurrence rate limits slightly higher than the measured occurrence rate in the higher-metallicity Galactic thick…

Since the large amplitude 2007 outburst which heated its accreting, pulsating white dwarf, the dwarf nova system GW Librae has been cooling to its quiescent temperature. Our Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet spectra combined with…

We have detected 300 X-ray sources within the half-mass radius (2.79') of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae in a deep (281 ks) Chandra exposure. We perform photometry and simple spectral fitting for our detected sources, and construct…

We present a deep near-infrared color--magnitude diagram of the Galactic globular cluster 47 Tucanae, obtained with the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) as part of the VISTA near-infrared Y, J, K_s survey of the…

We present new results on five of six known SX Phoenicis stars in the core of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae. We give interpretations of the light curves in the V and I bands from 8.3 days of observations with the Hubble Space Telescope…

We investigate the effects of changes in the blue straggler formation rate in globular clusters on the blue straggler distribution in the color-magnitude diagram. We find that the blue straggler distribution is highly sensitive to the past…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Sills , C. Bailyn , P. Edmonds , R. Gilliland

We present the results of a search for diffuse x-ray sources in a 65 ksec ROSAT PSPC exposure of 47 Tuc. There is faint, soft emission on the NE side of the cluster at a distance of 6 arcmin from the core. The location of this emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Martin Krockenberger , J. Grindlay

The series of events, which occurred at high redshift and originated multiple stellar populations in Globular Clusters (GCs) are still poorly understood. Theoretical work suggests that the present-day dynamics of stars in nearby GCs,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 A. P. Milone , A. F. Marino , A. Mastrobuono-Battisti , E. P. Lagioia

Based on over 5400 BV images of 47 Tuc collected between 1998 and 2010 we obtained light curves of 65 variables, 21 of which are newly detected objects. New variables are located mostly just outside of the core in a region poorly studied by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-26 J. Kaluzny , M. Rozyczka , W. Pych , W. Krzeminski , K. Zloczewski , W. Narloch

Dust production among post-main-sequence stars is investigated in the Galactic globular cluster 47 Tucanae (NGC 104) based on infrared photometry and spectroscopy. We identify metallic iron grains as the probable dominant opacity source in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Iain McDonald , Martha L. Boyer , Jacco Th. van Loon , Albert A. Zijlstra

UV radiation from white dwarfs can efficiently clear Galactic globular clusters (GCs) of their intra-cluster medium (ICM). This solves the problem of the missing ICM in clusters, which is otherwise expected to build up to easily observable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Iain McDonald , Albert Zijlstra

A number of cool white dwarfs with metal traces, of spectral types DAZ, DBZ, and DZ have been found to exhibit infrared excess radiation due to circumstellar dust. The origin of this dust is possibly a tidally disrupted asteroid that formed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. Koester

The Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae was firstly detected in gamma-rays by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the \emph{Fermi} Gamma-ray Space Telescope, and the gamma-ray emission has been widely attributed to the millisecond pulsars. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-03 Peng-Fei Zhang , Jia-Neng Zhou , Da-Hai Yan , Jing-Zhi Yan , Yi-Zhong Fan , Jun Fang , Li Zhang

Until now, the study of unresolved main sequence binary stars in globular clusters has been possible almost exclusively in their central regions with deep Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations. We present the first detection of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-15 Giacomo Cordoni , Luca Casagrande , Helmut Jerjen