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Our Chandra X-ray observation of the globular cluster 47 Tuc clearly detected most of the 16 MSPs with precise radio positions, and indicates probable X-ray emission from the remainder. The MSPs are soft (BB kT 0.2-0.3 keV) and faint (Lx…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. O. Heinke , J. E. Grindlay , P. D. Edmonds , F. Camilo

Both the Rubin Observatory and the first telescopes of the CTAO will be collecting data by 2026, marking a new era in optical and gamma-ray astronomy. Compared to predecessors, their enhanced sensitivity will extend extragalactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-26 Julian Hamo , Jonathan Biteau , Julien Peloton

We present a photometric analysis of globular cluster 47 Tuc (NGC\,104), using near-IR imaging data from the GeMS/GSAOI Galactic Globular Cluster Survey (G4CS) which is in operation at Gemini-South telescope.~Our survey is designed to…

We present aluminium abundances for a sample of about 100 red giant stars in each of the Galactic globular clusters 47 Tuc (NGC 104) and M 4 (NGC 6121). We have derived homogeneous abundances from intermediate-resolution FLAMES/GIRAFFE…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Eugenio Carretta , Raffaele Gratton , Angela Bragaglia , Valentina D'Orazi , Sara Lucatello

We investigate near-ultraviolet (NUV) variability in the Galactic globular cluster (GC) 47 Tucanae (47 Tuc). This work was undertaken within the GC sub-project of the Transient UV Objects project, a programme which aims to find and study…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-26 David Modiano , Aastha S. Parikh , Rudy Wijnands

The paper investigates the properties of the dust mass loss in stars populating the giant branch of the globular cluster 47 Tuc, by combining ISOCAM and DENIS data. Raster maps of 5 fields covering areas ranging from 4 x 4 to 15 x 15…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-18 A. Ramdani , A. Jorissen

We present a new method to combine multimass equilibrium dynamical models and pulsar timing data to constrain the mass distribution and remnant populations of Milky Way globular clusters (GCs). We first apply this method to 47 Tuc, a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-08 Peter J. Smith , Vincent Hénault-Brunet , Nolan Dickson , Mark Gieles , Holger Baumgardt

We describe the simulated sky survey underlying the second data challenge (DC2) carried out in preparation for analysis of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) by the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-22 LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration , Bela Abolfathi , David Alonso , Robert Armstrong , Éric Aubourg , Humna Awan , Yadu N. Babuji , Franz Erik Bauer , Rachel Bean , George Beckett , Rahul Biswas , Joanne R. Bogart , Dominique Boutigny , Kyle Chard , James Chiang , Chuck F. Claver , Johann Cohen-Tanugi , Céline Combet , Andrew J. Connolly , Scott F. Daniel , Seth W. Digel , Alex Drlica-Wagner , Richard Dubois , Emmanuel Gangler , Eric Gawiser , Thomas Glanzman , Phillipe Gris , Salman Habib , Andrew P. Hearin , Katrin Heitmann , Fabio Hernandez , Renée Hložek , Joseph Hollowed , Mustapha Ishak , Željko Ivezić , Mike Jarvis , Saurabh W. Jha , Steven M. Kahn , J. Bryce Kalmbach , Heather M. Kelly , Eve Kovacs , Danila Korytov , K. Simon Krughoff , Craig S. Lage , François Lanusse , Patricia Larsen , Laurent Le Guillou , Nan Li , Emily Phillips Longley , Robert H. Lupton , Rachel Mandelbaum , Yao-Yuan Mao , Phil Marshall , Joshua E. Meyers , Marc Moniez , Christopher B. Morrison , Andrei Nomerotski , Paul O'Connor , HyeYun Park , Ji Won Park , Julien Peloton , Daniel Perrefort , James Perry , Stéphane Plaszczynski , Adrian Pope , Andrew Rasmussen , Kevin Reil , Aaron J. Roodman , Eli S. Rykoff , F. Javier Sánchez , Samuel J. Schmidt , Daniel Scolnic , Christopher W. Stubbs , J. Anthony Tyson , Thomas D. Uram , Antonia Villarreal , Christopher W. Walter , Matthew P. Wiesner , W. Michael Wood-Vasey , Joe Zuntz

We present a fast, efficient and easy to apply computational method for the detection of planetary transits in large photometric datasets. The code has been specifically produced to analyse an ensemble of 21,950 stars in the globular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 David T. F Weldrake , Penny D Sackett

Aims. We demonstrate the high multiplex advantage of crowded field 3D spectroscopy using the new integral field spectrograph MUSE by means of a spectroscopic analysis of more than 12,000 individual stars in the globular cluster NGC 6397.…

MeerKAT imaging of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae (47 Tuc) reveals 1.28 GHz continuum emission at the locations of 20 known millisecond pulsars (MSPs). We use time series and spectral imaging to investigate the image-domain characteristics…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-19 Ian Heywood

We present the results of a comprehensive search for stellar variability in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae. Using the Mount Stromlo 40-inch (1m) telescope at Siding Spring Observatory and a combined V+R filter, we have detected 100…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-18 David T F Weldrake , Penny D Sackett , Terry J Bridges , Kenneth C Freeman

We present the first results from, and a complete description of, our ongoing UBVI digital photometric survey of the Magellanic Clouds. In particular, we discuss the photometric quality and automated reduction of a CCD survey (magnitude…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Dennis Zaritsky , Jason Harris , Ian Thompson

We present the commissioning results and first scientific observations from the newly installed TWIST observatory - a 50 cm telescope equipped with an sCMOS camera providing a $36.1\times24.1$ arcmin$^2$ field of view - housed in the former…

High-precision proper motions of the globular cluster 47 Tuc have allowed us to measure for the first time the cluster rotation in the plane of the sky and the velocity anisotropy profile from the cluster core out to about 13'. These…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-09 A. Bellini , P. Bianchini , A. L. Varri , J. Anderson , G. Piotto , R. P. van der Marel , E. Vesperini , L. L. Watkins

The final stages of stellar evolution can be constrained by studying pre-SN variability. The incredible amount of data coming from the upcoming Rubin Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will be fundamental to this type of work. However,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Tobias Géron , Maria R. Drout , W. V. Jacobson-Galán , C. D. Kilpatrick

We use deep multi-epoch PSF photometry taken with the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) to measure and analyze the proper motions of stars within the Galactic globular cluster 47 Tucanae (47 Tuc, NGC 104). The…

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…