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As part of a large investigation with Hubble Space Telescope to study the faintest stars within the globular cluster Omega Centauri, in this work we present early results on the multiplicity of its main sequence (MS) stars, based on deep…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 A. P. Milone , A. F. Marino , L. R. Bedin , J. Anderson , D. Apai , A. Bellini , P. Bergeron , A. J. Burgasser , A. Dotter , J. M. Rees

We present HST observations that show a bifurcation of colors in the middle main sequence of the globular cluster Omega Centauri. We see this in three different fields, observed with different cameras and filters. We also present high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-05 L. R. Bedin , G. Piotto , J. Anderson , S. Cassisi , I. R. King , Y. Momany , G. Carraro , .

The galactic globular cluster Omega Centauri is the most massive of its kind, with a complex mix of multiple stellar populations and several kinematic and dynamical peculiarities. Different mean proper motions have been detected among the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 N. Sanna , E. Pancino , A. Zocchi , F. R. Ferraro , P. B. Stetson

$\omega$~Centauri, the most massive globular cluster in the Milky Way, exhibits a level of stellar population complexity that has long resisted a unified chemical characterisation. We exploit high-resolution near-infrared spectroscopy from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-01 Furkan Akbaba , Olcay Plevne , Timur Şahin , Sena Aleyna Şentürk

The nature and formation history of our Galaxy's largest and most enigmatic stellar cluster, known as Omega Centauri (ocen) remains debated. Here, we offer a novel approach to disentangling the complex stellar populations within ocen based…

We present multi-wavelength observations of the northern population of Omega Cen from the main-sequence turn-off to high on the red giant branch. We show that the best information about the metallicity and age of the stars can be gained…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Joanne Hughes , George Wallerstein , Floor van Leeuwen

We present results of an extensive spectroscopic survey of Subgiant stars in the stellar system omega Centauri. Using infrared CaII triplet lines, we derived metallicities and radial velocities for more than 250 stars belonging to different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Sollima , E. Pancino , F. R. Ferraro , M. Bellazzini , O. Straniero , L. Pasquini

Near-infrared spectra of 21 giants in omega Centauri, spanning the whole range of metallicities observed in this cluster, are presented. This work is part of a coordinated photometric and spectroscopic campaign in the optical and in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Origlia , F. R. Ferraro , M. Bellazzini , E. Pancino

We present a chemical-composition analysis of 77 red-giant stars in Omega Centauri. We have measured abundances for carbon and nitrogen, and combined our results with abundances of O, Na, La, and Fe that we determined in our previous work.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 A. F. Marino , A. P. Milone , G. Piotto , S. Cassisi , F. D'Antona , J. Anderson , A. Aparicio , L. R. Bedin , A. Renzini , S. Villanova

We investigate the resolved stellar content of early-type dwarf galaxies in the CenA group, in order to estimate the fraction of their intermediate-age populations. We use near-infrared photometric data taken with the VLT/ISAAC instrument,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 D. Crnojević , M. Rejkuba , E. K. Grebel , G. Da Costa , H. Jerjen

Globular clusters (GCs) and many nuclear clusters (NCs) show evidence for hosting multiple generations of stellar populations. Younger stellar populations in NCs appear to reside in disk like structures, including the nuclear cluster in our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Alessandra Mastrobuono-Battisti , Hagai B. Perets

Omega Centauri ($\omega$ Cen) is the most massive globular cluster of the Milky Way. It is thought to be the nucleus of an accreted dwarf galaxy because of its high mass and its complex stellar populations. To decipher its formation history…

We use masses, radii, and luminosities of the detached eclipsing binary OGLEGC17 derived from photometric and spectroscopic observations to calculate the age and distance of the globular cluster omega Cen. Age versus turnoff mass and age…

In the complex picture of multiple stellar populations in globular clusters (GCs), a special role is played by NGC 5139 Omega Centauri. At variance with the majority of GCs, Omega Cen exhibits significant star-to-star variations in…

Omega Centauri is no longer the only globular cluster known to contain multiple stellar populations, yet it remains the most puzzling. Due to the extreme way in which the multiple stellar population phenomenon manifests in this cluster, it…

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 present chemical abundance measurements for 7,302 red giant branch stars within the half-light radius (~5') of $\omega$ Centauri ($\omega$ Cen), derived from MUSE spectra using the neural network model DD-Payne. DD-Payne effectively…

Aims. We aim to investigate the stellar population properties, ages, and metal content of the globular clusters (GCs) in NGC 3311, the central galaxy of the Hydra I cluster, to better constrain its evolution history. Methods. We used…

The most massive and complex globular clusters in the Galaxy are thought to have originated as the nuclear cores of now tidally disrupted dwarf galaxies, but the connection between globular clusters and dwarf galaxies is tenuous with the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 Christian I. Johnson , Andrea K. Dupree , Mario Mateo , John I. Bailey , Edward W. Olszewski , Matthew G. Walker

We present spectroscopic abundances and radial velocities for giant stars in the Galactic globular cluster omega Centauri based on the CaII infrared triplet. Two samples of stars were observed: 234 stars at M_V = 1.25 on the lower giant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-05 Nicholas B. Suntzeff , Robert P. Kraft