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We present a study of the white dwarf (WD) cooling sequence of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae (47 Tuc or NGC 104) using deep infrared observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). By combining these data with ultra-deep optical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-27 M. Salaris , M. Scalco , L. R. Bedin , S. Cassisi

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations have been demonstrated to be efficient in detecting globular clusters' (GCs) multiple stellar populations in the low mass regime of M dwarfs. We present an overview, and first results, of…

Using JWST Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) images of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae (or NGC 104), taken at two epochs just 7 months apart, we derived proper-motion membership down to $m_{\rm F322W2} \sim 27$. We identified an intriguing…

We present the first spectroscopic estimates of the chemical abundance of M dwarf stars in a globular cluster (GC), namely 47 Tucanae. By exploiting NIRSpec on board the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) we gathered low-resolution spectra…

We report on the discovery of a stellar system in the background of the Galactic globular cluster 47 Tucanae (NGC 104), located 14.8' North-West of the cluster center. The object, whose apparent diameter is D~30'', is partially resolved…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. Bellazzini , E. Pancino , F. R. Ferraro

We combine infrared (IR) observations collected by the James Webb Space Telescope with optical deep images by the Hubble Space Telescope taken approximately 20 years earlier to compute proper-motion membership for the globular cluster (GC)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-20 L. R. Bedin , M. Libralato , M. Salaris , D. Nardiello , M. Scalco , M. Griggio , J. Anderson , P. Bergeron , A. Bellini , R. Gerasimov , A. J. Burgasser , D. Apai

We present a new determination of the distance (and age) of the Galactic globular cluster 47 Tucanae (NGC 104) based on the fit of its white dwarf (WD) cooling sequence with the empirical fiducial sequence of local WD with known…

Fundamental parameters and time-evolution of mass loss are investigated for post-main-sequence stars in the Galactic globular cluster 47 Tucanae (NGC 104). This is accomplished by fitting spectral energy distributions (SEDs) to existing…

The Bright Star in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae (NGC 104) is a post-AGB star of spectral type B8 III. The ultraviolet spectra of late-B stars exhibit a myriad of absorption features, many due to species unobservable from the ground. The…

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…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-06 L. R. Bedin , D. Nardiello , M. Salaris , M. Libralato , P. Bergeron , A. J. Burgasser , D. Apai , M. Griggio , M. Scalco , J. Anderson , R. Gerasimov , A. Bellini

Brown dwarfs can serve as both clocks and chemical tracers of the evolutionary history of the Milky Way due to their continuous cooling and high sensitivity of spectra to composition. We focus on brown dwarfs in globular clusters that host…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-11 Roman Gerasimov , Adam J. Burgasser , Derek Homeier , Luigi R. Bedin , Jon M. Rees , Michele Scalco , Jay Anderson , Maurizio Salaris

We present far-UV spectroscopy obtained with HST for 48 blue objects in the core of 47 Tuc. Based on their position in a FUV-optical colour-magnitude diagram, these were expected to include cataclysmic variables (CVs), blue stragglers…

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

Globular clusters contain vast repositories of metal-poor stars that represent some of the oldest stellar generations in the Universe. The archaeological footprint of early Galactic evolution may be retained in the measurable properties of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-04 Roman Gerasimov , Luigi R. Bedin , Adam J. Burgasser , Daniel Apai , Domenico Nardiello , Efrain Alvarado , Jay Anderson

We used a set of archived HST/WFPC2 images to probe the stellar population in the core of the nearby Galactic Globular Cluster (GGC) 47 Tuc. From the ultraviolet (UV) Color Magnitude Diagrams (CMDs) obtained for ~4,000 stars detected within…

We present `James Webb Space Telescope' observations of M4 -- the closest globular cluster -- that probe the lower Main Sequence down to the hydrogen-burning limit. The unveiled stellar sequence reaches much fainter luminosities than…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-21 L. R. Bedin , R. Gerasimov , A. Calamida , M. Libralato , M. Scalco , D. Nardiello , M. Griggio , D. Apai , J. Anderson , A. Bellini , A. J. Burgasser

We present the serendipitous discovery of a late T-type brown dwarf candidate in JWST NIRCam observations of the Early Release Science Abell 2744 parallel field. The discovery was enabled by the sensitivity of JWST at 4~$\mu$m wavelengths…

We have used HST imaging of the central regions (R<100 arcsec, about 5 core radii) of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae to derive proper motions and U- and V-band magnitudes for 14,366 cluster members. We also present a catalogue of…

We present a new distance determination to the Galactic globular cluster 47 Tucanae by fitting the spectral energy distributions of its white dwarfs to pure hydrogen atmosphere white dwarf models. Our photometric dataset is obtained from a…

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
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