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Using the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope, we have obtained deep far-ultraviolet images of the compact elliptical galaxy M32. When combined with earlier near-ultraviolet images of the same field, these…

We have observed the CN features at $\sim$3800 ~\AA~ and 4120~ \AA~ as well as the CH band at $\sim$4300~\AA~ for 145 evolved stars in the Galactic globular cluster M71 using the multi-object spectrograph, Hydra, on the WIYN-3.5m telescope.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-03 Jeffrey M. Gerber , Eileen D. Friel , Enrico Vesperini

We present wide-field and high-precision BV and Ca & Stromgren by photometry of omega Centauri and its RR Lyrae stars, which represents one of the most extensive photometric surveys to date for this cluster. The member stars of omega Cen…

By using high-resolution spectra acquired with FLAMES-GIRAFFE at the ESO/VLT, we measured radial and rotational velocities for 110 Blue Straggler stars (BSSs) in Omega Centauri, the globular cluster-like stellar system harboring the largest…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 A. Mucciarelli , L. Lovisi , F. R. Ferraro , E. Dalessandro , B. Lanzoni , L. Monaco

Hot subluminous stars lying up to 0.7 mag below the extreme horizontal branch (EHB) are found in the UV color-magnitude diagrams of omega Cen and NGC 2808. Such stars are unexplained by canonical HB theory. In order to explore the origin of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Allen V. Sweigart , Thomas M. Brown , Thierry Lanz , Wayne B. Landsman , Ivan Hubeny

We combine several surveys at different wavelengths with intermediate-band $ uvby\beta$ photometry to examine the correlation between the location of the OB-stars in the Centaurus star-forming field and the neutral and ionized material in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-07-17 N. Kaltcheva , V. Golev

The globular cluster omega Centauri is one of the largest and most massive members of the galactic system. However, its classification as a globular cluster has been challenged making it a candidate for being the stripped core of an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Eva Noyola , Karl Gebhardt , Marcel Bergmann

Context. The problem of the existence of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) at the centre of globular clusters is a hot and controversial topic in current astrophysical research with important implications in stellar and galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-06-14 P. Miocchi

We present a far-ultraviolet (FUV) study of hot stellar populations in the second parameter pair globular clusters (GCs) M3 and M13, as a part of the Globular cluster UVIT Legacy Survey program (GlobULeS). We use observations made with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-10 Ranjan Kumar , Ananta C. Pradhan , Snehalata Sahu , Annapurni Subramaniam , Sonika Piridi , Santi Cassisi , Devendra K. Ojha

We use the Stetson, HST, and Gaia DR3 data sets for 22 Galactic globular clusters to select their members and fit their CMDs with isochrones from DSED and BaSTI for $[\alpha/$Fe$]=+0.4$ and an adopted helium mass fraction $Y$. As a result,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-28 G. A. Gontcharov , O. S. Ryutina , C. J. Bonatto , S. S. Savchenko , S. V. Troitsky

Recent wide-field photometric surveys (Lee et al.; Pancino et al.) have shown the existence of a previously unknown metal-rich ([Fe/H] -0.6) stellar population in the galactic globular cluster omega Centauri. The discovery of this new…

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

We report the results of an extensive VLT high-resolution imaging campaign of the central region of the giant globular cluster omega Centauri. More than 100,000 stars have been measured in the inner 9'x 9' region of the cluster. On the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-18 A. Sollima , F. R. Ferraro , E. Pancino , M. Bellazzini

The massive stellar content, the OB associations and the star clusters in an HST field in M101 = NGC 5457 are investigated. A clustering algorithm yields 79 putative associations. Their size distribution is similar to that found in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 F. Bresolin , R. Kennicutt , P. Stetson

We present a clustering analysis of ~60,000 massive (stellar mass Mstar > 10^{11} Msun) galaxies out to z = 1 drawn from 55.2 deg2 of the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) II Supernova Survey.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Y. Matsuoka , S. Masaki , K. Kawara , N. Sugiyama

We present a multiwavelength photometric analysis of the globular cluster M2. The data-set has been obtained by combining high-resolution (HST/WFPC2 and ACS) and wide-field (GALEX) space observations and ground based (MEGACAM-CFHT,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-01-21 E. Dalessandro , G. Beccari , B. Lanzoni , F. R. Ferraro , R. Schiavon , R. T. Rood

We attempt to constrain the shape of M31's inner stellar halo by tracing the surface density of blue horizontal branch (BHB) stars at galactocentric distances ranging from 2 kpc to 35 kpc. Our measurements make use of resolved stellar…

Globular clusters at the distance of M31 have apparent angular sizes of a few arcseconds. While many M31 GCs have been detected and studied from ground-based images, the high spatial resolution of HST allows much more robust detection and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Barmby , J. P. Huchra

We present a new asteroseismic analysis of the stars in the Globular Cluster (GC) M4 based on the data collected by the K2 mission. We report the detection of solar-like oscillation in 37 stars, 32 red giant branch (RGB) and 6 red…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-29 M. Tailo , E. Corsaro , A. Miglio , J. Montalbán , K. Brogaard , A. P. Milone , A. Stokholm , G. Casali , A. Bragaglia

Color Magnitude Diagrams (CMDs) of individual stars in 8 Globular Clusters in M31 down to about 1 mag fainter (V$\sim 26.5$) than the Horizontal Branch have been obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope. In particular, we observed G280 and…

We present a study of the white dwarf (WD) cooling sequence (CS) in the globular cluster (GC) Omega Centauri, the primary goal of a dedicated Hubble Space Telescope (HST) programme. Our analysis has revealed that the peak at the termination…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-10 M. Scalco , M. Salaris , L. Bedin , M. Griggio , A. Bellini , M. Libralato , D. Nardiello , E. Vesperini , J. Anderson , P. Bergeron , A. Burgasser , D. Apai