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We present I-band Surface Brightness Fluctuations (SBF) measurements for 15 early type galaxies (3 giants, 12 dwarfs) in the central region of the Centaurus cluster, based on VLT FORS1 imaging data. From the SBF-distances to our sample…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Mieske , M. Hilker

We present the timing of the first five millisecond pulsars discovered in the globular cluster Omega Centauri and the discovery of a pulsar with a spin period of 3.68 ms. With a timing baseline of $\sim$3.5 yr we are able to measure the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-29 S. Dai , S. Johnston , M. Kerr , J. Berteaud , B. Bhattacharyya , F. Camilo , E. Keane

We describe the goals and first results of a Program for Imaging of the PERseus cluster of galaxies (PIPER). The first phase of the program builds on imaging of fields obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) ACS/WFC and WFC3/UVIS…

Filaments are a ubiquitous morphological feature of the molecular interstellar medium and are identified as sites of star formation. In recent years, more than 100 large-scale filaments (with a length $>10$\,pc) have been observed in the…

We present an atlas of UV ($\sim 2300$ \AA) images, obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Faint Object Camera, of the central $22''\times 22''$ of 110 galaxies. The observed galaxies are an unbiased selection constituting about one…

We present evidence for $\gamma$-ray emission from a stacked population of 39 high-latitude globular clusters (GCs) not detected in the Fermi Point Source Catalog, likely attributable to populations of millisecond pulsars within them. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-17 Owen K. Henry , Timothy A. D. Paglione , Yuzhe Song , Joshua Tan , David Zurek , Vanessa Pinto

We present an advance in the use of Cassini observations of stellar occultations by the rings of Saturn for stellar studies. Stewart et al. (2013) demonstrated the potential use of such observations for measuring stellar angular diameters.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-30 Paul N. Stewart , Peter G. Tuthill , Philip D. Nicholson , Matthew M. Hedman , James P. Lloyd

We present the catalog of 2580 eclipsing binary stars detected in 4.6 square degree area of the central parts of the Large Magellanic Cloud. The photometric data were collected during the second phase of the OGLE microlensing search from…

In this paper, we present internal surface brightness profiles, using images in the F606W and F814W filter bands observed with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the {\it Hubble Space Telescope}, for ten globular clusters (GCs) in the outer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Song Wang , Jun Ma

The nature and even the existence of a putative planet-mass companion ("Fomalhaut b") to Fomalhaut has been debated since 2008. In the present paper we reanalyze the multi-epoch ACS/STIS/WFC3 Hubble Space Telescope (HST) optical/near…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Raphael Galicher , Christian Marois , Ben Zuckerman , Bruce Macintosh

Single stars in ancient globular clusters (GCs) are believed incapable of producing planetary nebulae (PNe), because their post-asymptotic-giant-branch evolutionary timescales are slower than the dissipation timescales for PNe.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Howard E. Bond

The ACS Survey of Globular Clusters has used HST's Wide-Field Channel to obtain uniform imaging of 65 of the nearest globular clusters to provide an extensive homogeneous dataset for a broad range of scientific investigations. The survey…

I describe the capabilities of the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, scheduled for May 2009 installation on the Hubble Space Telescope. With a factor-of-ten increase in far-UV throughput for moderate resolution spectroscopy, COS will enable a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Michael Shull

We present HST/ACS images and color-magnitude diagrams for 24 nearby galaxies in and near the constellation of Centaurus with radial velocities V_LG < 550 km/s. Distances are determined based on the luminosities of stars at the tip of the…

Extending over three Hubble Space Telescope (HST) cycles, the Hubble Frontier Fields (HFF) initiative constitutes the largest commitment ever of HST time to the exploration of the distant Universe via gravitational lensing by massive galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 J. Richard , M. Jauzac , M. Limousin , E. Jullo , B. Clément , H. Ebeling , J. P. Kneib , H. Atek , P. Natarajan , E. Egami , R. Livermore , R. Bower

Thanks to its exceptional near-infrared photometry, JWST can effectively contribute to the discovery, characterization, and understanding of multiple stellar populations in globular clusters, especially at low masses where the Hubble Space…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-04 M. Scalco , M. Libralato , R. Gerasimov , L. R. Bedin , E. Vesperini , D. Nardiello , A. Bellini , M. Griggio , D. Apai , M. Salaris , A. Burgasser , J. Anderson

Omega Centauri is the most massive globular cluster of the Milky Way, and possesses many peculiar properties. In particular, the cluster contains distinct multiple stellar populations, with a large spread in metallicity and different…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-27 Rodrigo Ibata , Michele Bellazzini , Khyati Malhan , Nicolas Martin , Paolo Bianchini

We report the results of an extensive VLT high-resolution imaging campaign of the central region of the giant globular cluster omega Centauri. More than 100,000 stars have been measured in the inner 9'x 9' region of the cluster. On the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-18 A. Sollima , F. R. Ferraro , E. Pancino , M. Bellazzini

Using Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations of the globular cluster NGC6397, we constrain the cluster's binary fraction. The observations consist of two fields: the primary science field, a single ACS pointing centered approximately 5'…

Over the past five years, radial-velocity and transit techniques have revealed a new population of Earth-like planets with masses of a few Earth masses. Their very close orbit around their host star requires an exquisite inner working angle…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Julien Milli , David Mouillet , Dimitri Mawet , Hans Martin Schmid , Andreas Bazzon , Julien H. Girard , Kjetil Dohlen , Ronald Roelfsema