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We present a CCD investigation of the galactic globular M5 aimed to increase the statistical relevance of the available sample of evolving bright stars. Previous investigations, limited to the outer cluster region, have been extended toward…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 E. Brocato , V. Castellani , V. Ripepi

We present spectral energy distribution modelling of 6875 stars in omega Centauri, obtaining stellar luminosities and temperatures by fitting literature photometry to state-of-the-art MARCS stellar models. By comparison to four different…

High spectral resolution and high signal-to-noise ratio optical spectra of red giants in the globular cluster Omega Centauri are analysed for stellar parameters and chemical abundances of 15 elements including helium by either line…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 Arumalla B. S. Reddy

We present accurate new ultraviolet and optical BVI photometry for the Galactic globular cluster ngc2808, based on both ground-based and archival HST imagery. From this we have selected a sample of ~2,000 HB stars; given the extensive…

We analyze data from the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys of the globular cluster Omega Cen. We construct a photometric and proper-motion catalog using the GO-9442, GO-10252, and GO-10775 data sets. The 2.5- to 4-year…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-02-01 Jay Anderson , Roeland P. van der Marel

We present elemental abundances for 855 red giant branch (RGB) stars in the globular cluster Omega Centauri (w Cen) from spectra obtained with the Blanco 4m telescope and Hydra multifiber spectrograph. The sample includes nearly all RGB…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Christian I. Johnson , Catherine A. Pilachowski

We have constructed the most-comprehensive catalog of photometry and proper motions ever assembled for a globular cluster (GC). The core of $\omega$Cen has been imaged over 650 times through WFC3's UVIS and IR channels for the purpose of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 A. Bellini , J. Anderson , L. R. Bedin , I. R. King , R. P. van der Marel , G. Piotto , A. M. Cool

Recent investigations revealed very peculiar properties of blue horizontal branch (HB) stars in \omega Centauri, which show anomalously low surface gravity and mass compared to other clusters and to theoretical models. \omega Centauri,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 C. Salgado , C. Moni Bidin , S. Villanova , D. Geisler , M. Catelan

We have carried out a search for above-horizontal-branch (AHB) stars--objects lying above the horizontal branch (HB) and blueward of the asymptotic giant branch (AGB) in the color-magnitude diagram--in 97 Galactic and seven Magellanic Cloud…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 Brian D. Davis , Howard E. Bond , Michael H. Siegel , Robin Ciardullo

We present abundances of several light, alpha, Fe-peak, and neutron-capture elements for 66 red giant branch (RGB) stars in the Galactic globular cluster Omega Centauri. Our observations lie in the range 12.0<V<13.5 and focus on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Christian I. Johnson , Catherine A. Pilachowski , R. Michael Rich , Jon P. Fulbright

We present a Spitzer Space Telescope imaging survey of the most massive Galactic globular cluster, omega Centauri, and investigate stellar mass loss at low metallicity and the intracluster medium (ICM). The survey covers approximately 3.2x…

Using the 2dF multi-fibre instrument at the AAT, we have carried out a spectroscopic survey of over 1500 stars brighter than B=16.6 mag, which have been confirmed by the proper motion study of van Leeuwen et al. (2000) to be members of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jacco Th. van Loon

Omega Centauri ($\omega$ Cen) is the most massive globular cluster of the Milky Way and has been the focus of many studies that reveal the complexity of its stellar populations and kinematics. However, most previous studies have used…

Deep HST-WFPC2 observations of the stellar population in the globular cluster Omega Cen (NGC 5139) have been used to measure the luminosity function of main sequence stars at the low-mass end. Two fields have been investigated, located…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Guido De Marchi

We present results of a search for optical counterparts of X-ray sources in and toward the globular cluster Omega Centauri (NGC 5139) using the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the Hubble Space Telescope. The ACS data consist of a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Adrienne M. Cool , Daryl Haggard , Tersi Arias , Michelle Brochmann , Jason Dorfman , April Gafford , Vivian White , Jay Anderson

Recent observations for the color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of the massive globular cluster Omega Centauri have shown that it has a striking double main sequence (MS), with a minority population of bluer and fainter MS well separated from a…

We present photometry for all bright red giant branch (RGB), horizontal branch (HB), and asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars within 10' of the center of M13. We find support for the idea that the population of HB stars redder than the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Eric L. Sandquist , Mark Gordon , Daniel Levine , Michael Bolte

The majority of the inhomogeneities in the chemical composition of Globular Cluster (GC) stars appear due to primordial enrichment by hot-CNO cycled material processed in stars belonging to a first stellar generation. Either massive AGB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. D'Antona , V. Caloi

In this work, we characterize the properties of HB stars in the GCs $\omega$ Cen and NGC 6752. We use dedicated model atmospheres and synthetic spectra grids computed using a hybrid LTE/NLTE modeling approach to fit the MUSE spectra of HB…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-13 M. Latour , S. Hämmerich , M. Dorsch , U. Heber , T. -O. Husser , S. Kamann , S. Dreizler , J. Brinchmann

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