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Since the discovery of chemically peculiar stars in globular clusters in the last century, the study of multiple populations has become increasingly important, given that chemical inhomogeneity is found in almost all globular clusters.…

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…

We investigate the multiple stellar populations of the globular clusters M3, M5, M13, and M71 using $g^\prime$ and intermediate-band CN-$\lambda 3883$ photometry obtained with the WIYN 0.9-m telescope on Kitt Peak. We find a strong…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-13 William P. Bowman , Catherine A. Pilachowski , Liese van Zee , Amanda Winans , Robin Ciardullo , Caryl Gronwall

We observed a sample of 90 red giant branch (RGB) stars in NGC 2808 using FLAMES/GIRAFFE and the high resolution grating with the set up HR21. These stars have previous accurate atmospheric parameters and abundances of light elements. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-11 Eugenio Carretta , Angela Bragaglia , Sara Lucatello , Raffaele G. Gratton , Valentina D'Orazi , Antonio Sollima

Galactic globular clusters are not simple stellar populations. And nothing is simple in their study, basically because we try to reconstruct chains of events that occurred at redshift z > 2-3 by observing these objects at z=0, after a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-16 Eugenio Carretta

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

A number of scenarios for the formation of multiple populations in globular clusters (GCs) predict that second generation (2G) stars form in a compact and dense subsystem embedded in a more extended first-generation (1G) system. If these…

In this paper we present a multi-wavelength analysis of the complex stellar populations within the massive globular cluster Mayall II (G1), a satellite of the nearby Andromeda galaxy projected at a distance of 40 kpc. We used images…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-13 D. Nardiello , G. Piotto , A. P. Milone , R. M. Rich , S. Cassisi , L. R. Bedin , A. Bellini , A. Renzini

Aims. We present a new technique to estimate the relative ages of multiple stellar populations hosted by five globular clusters: NGC 104 (47 Tuc), NGC 6121 (M4), NGC 6352, NGC 6362 and NGC 6723. Methods. We used the catalogs of the database…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-17 F. Lucertini , D. Nardiello , G. Piotto

Hubble Space Telescope ACS/WFC data in (B,I) are used to investigate the globular cluster populations around 6 gE galaxies ~40 Mpc distant. The total comprises a sample of ~8000 high-probability globular clusters. PSF-convolved King-model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 William E. Harris

The FLAMES survey ``Na-O anti-correlation and HB" uncovered the modern standard for globular clusters (GCs), that is their ubiquitous multiple stellar populations (MPs) distinct by the abundance of proton-capture elements. That survey can…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Eugenio Carretta

We present stellar atmosphere and evolution models of main sequence stars in two stellar populations of the Galactic globular cluster NGC 6752. These populations represent the two extremes of light-element abundance variations in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Aaron Dotter , Jason Ferguson , Charlie Conroy , A. P. Milone , A. F. Marino , David Yong

The presence of Multiple Stellar Populations (MSPs) in Galactic Globular Clusters (GCs) is a poorly understood phenomenon. By probing different spectral ranges that are affected by different absorption lines using the multi-band photometric…

The location of Galactic Globular Clusters' (GC) stars on the horizontal branch (HB) should mainly depend on GC metallicity, the "first parameter", but it is actually the result of complex interactions between the red giant branch (RGB)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-09 M. Tailo , A. P. Milone , E. P. Lagioia , F. D'Antona , A. F. Marino , E. Vesperini , V. Caloi , P. Ventura , E. Dondoglio , G. Cordoni

We use images collected with the near-infrared camera (NIRCam) on board the James Webb Space Telescope and with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to investigate multiple populations at the bottom of the main sequence (MS) of 47 Tucanae. The…

We present the first evidence of multiple populations in the Galactic globular cluster NGC 6362. We used optical and near-UV Hubble Space Telescope and ground based photometry, finding that both the sub giant and red giant branches are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 E. Dalessandro , D. Massari , M. Bellazzini , P. Miocchi , A. Mucciarelli , M. Salaris , S. Cassisi , F. R. Ferraro , B. Lanzoni

CFHT Megacam data in (g',r',i') are used to obtain deep, wide-field photometry of the globular cluster system (GCS) around M87. A total of 6200 GCs brighter than M_I = -8.5 are included in the study, essentially containing almost the entire…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 William E. Harris

We use Cycle 21 Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations and HST archival ACS Treasury observations of 30 Galactic Globular Clusters to characterize two distinct stellar populations. A sophisticated Bayesian technique is employed to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 R. Wagner-Kaiser , D. C. Stenning , A. Sarajedini , T. von Hippel , D. A. van Dyk , E. Robinson , N. Stein , W. H. Jefferys

Two generations of stars, G1 and G2, typically populate Galactic globular clusters (GCs). The origin of G2 stars is unclear. We uncover two empirical dependencies between GC characteristics, which can be explained by the formation of G2…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-23 Valery Kravtsov , Sami Dib , Francisco A. Calderon , Jose A. Belinchon

The M4 Core Project with HST is designed to exploit the Hubble Space Telescope to investigate the central regions of M4, the Globular Cluster closest to the Sun. In this paper we combine optical and near-infrared photometry to study…