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The Hubble Space Telescope UV Legacy Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters is providing a major breakthrough in our knowledge of Globular Clusters (GCs) and their stellar populations. Among the main results, we discovered that all the…

Omega Centauri is the most well studied Globular Cluster because of its numerous puzzling features. Intensive spectroscopic follow-up observing campaigns targeting stars at different positions on the color-magnitude diagram promises to…

Recent work on metal-intermediate globular clusters (GCs) with [Fe/H]=$-1.5$ and $-0.75$ has illustrated the theoretical behavior of multiple populations in photometric diagrams obtained with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). These…

Hubble Space Telescope (HST) photometry is providing an extensive analysis of globular clusters (GCs). In particular, the pseudo two-colour diagram dubbed 'chromosome map (ChM)' allowed to detect and characterize their multiple populations…

We investigate structure and kinematics of the second generation of stars (SG) formed from gaseous ejecta of the first generation of stars (FG) in forming globular clusters (GCs). We consider that SG can be formed from gaseous ejecta from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Kenji Bekki

Gaia Data Release 2 provides a wealth of data to study the internal structure of nearby globular clusters. We use this data to investigate the internal kinematics of 11 nearby globular clusters, with a particular focus on their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-19 Abhinav Jindal , Jeremy J. Webb , Jo Bovy

Multi-epoch observations with ACS and WFC3 on HST provide a unique and comprehensive probe of stellar dynamics within 47 Tucanae. We confront analytic models of the globular cluster with the observed stellar proper motions that probe along…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-13 J. Heyl , I. Caiazzo , H. Richer , J. Anderson , J. Kalirai , J. Parada

Context: Globular clusters (GCs) host multiple populations characterised by abundance variations in a number of light elements. In many cases, these populations also show spatial and/or kinematic differences, which vary in strength from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-02 Francisco I. Aros , Enrico Vesperini , Emanuele Dalessandro

Context. Omega Cen is the largest known globular cluster in the Milky Way. It is also quite a complex object with a large metallicity spread and multiple stellar populations. Despite a number of studies over the past several decades, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-23 Nagaraj Vernekar , Sara Lucatello , Pete Kuzma , Lorenzo Spina

We studied the spatial distributions of multiple stellar populations (MPs) in a sample of 20 globular clusters (GCs) spanning a broad range of dynamical ages. The differences between first-population (FP) and second-population (SP) stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 E. Dalessandro , M. Cadelano , E. Vesperini , S. Martocchia , F. R. Ferraro , B. Lanzoni , N. Bastian , J. Hong , N. Sanna

This study constitutes part of a larger effort aimed at better characterizing the Galactic globular clusters (GGCs) located towards the inner Milky Way bulge and disk. Here, we focus on internal kinematics of nine GGCs, obtained from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-06 Roger E. Cohen , Andrea Bellini , Mattia Libralato , Matteo Correnti , Thomas M. Brown , Jason S. Kalirai

We aim at a detailed description of the kinematic properties of the old, (several Gyrs) late-type CO-absorption star population among the Galactic centre (GC) cluster stars. We applied AO-assisted, near-infrared imaging and integral-field…

We perform a combined analysis of stellar kinematics and line-of-sight accelerations of millisecond pulsars to investigate the mass contents of Omega Centauri. We consider multiple mass components: the visible photometric distribution, a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-15 Andrés Bañares-Hernández , Francesca Calore , Jorge Martin Camalich , Justin I. Read

We revisit the problem of the split main sequence (MS) of the globular cluster omega Centauri, and report the results of two-epoch Hubble Space Telescope observations of an outer field, for which proper motions give us a pure sample of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 I. R. King , L. R. Bedin , S. Cassisi , A. P. Milone , A. Bellini , G. Piotto , J. Anderson , A. Pietrinferni , D. Cordier

Globular Clusters (GCs) and Nuclear Star Clusters (NSCs) are typically composed by several stellar populations, characterized by different chemical compositions. Different populations show different ages in NSCs but not necessarily in GCs.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-01 Alessandra Mastrobuono-Battisti , Hagai B. Perets

By using high-resolution spectra acquired with FLAMES-GIRAFFE at the ESO/VLT, we measured radial and rotational velocities for 110 Blue Straggler stars (BSSs) in Omega Centauri, the globular cluster-like stellar system harboring the largest…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 A. Mucciarelli , L. Lovisi , F. R. Ferraro , E. Dalessandro , B. Lanzoni , L. Monaco

We combine MUSE spectroscopy and Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet (UV) photometry to perform a study of the chemistry and dynamics of the Galactic globular cluster Messier 80 (M80, NGC 6093). Previous studies have revealed three stellar…

We have determined bulk proper motions (PMs) for 31 LMC GCs from Gaia eDR3 and Hubble Space Telescope data using multiple independent analysis techniques. Combined with literature values for distances, line-of-sight velocities and existing…

{\omega} Centauri, the remnant nucleus of an accreted dwarf galaxy, is a unique laboratory for studying complex stellar populations. The recently discovered Fimbulthul stream provides a fossil record of its ongoing tidal dissolution. In…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-04 Shiru Zheng , Baitian Tang , Long Wang , Jose G. Fernandez-Trincado , Ruoyun Huang , Xia Li , XiaoDong Li

We present a spectral atlas of the post-main-sequence population of the most massive Galactic globular cluster, omega Centauri. Spectra were obtained of more than 1500 stars selected as uniformly as possible from across the (B, B-V)…