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We report new HST/WFPC2 photometry for 10 globular clusters (GC) in M31 observed in F5555W(V) and F814W(I). Additionally we have reanalyzed HST archival data of comparable quality for 2 more GCs. Extraordinary care is taken to account for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. M. Rich , C. E. Corsi , C. Cacciari , L. Federici , F. Fusi Pecci , S. G. Djorgovski

We present V and B-band CCD photometry of 35 RR Lyr stars in the southern hemisphere globular cluster NGC 6362. Fourier decomposition of the light curves was used to estimate the basic properties of these variables. From the analysis of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Olech , J. Kaluzny , I. B. Thompson , W. Pych , W. Krzeminski , A. Schwarzenberg-Czerny

We present the first results from our HST Brightest Cluster Galaxy (BCG) survey of seven central supergiant cluster galaxies and their globular cluster (GC) systems. We measure a total of 48000 GCs in all seven galaxies, representing the…

WFPC2 images obtained with the Hubble Space telescope 4.16 years apart have allowed us to measure the proper motion of the metal rich globular cluster NGC 6553 with respect to the background bulge stars. With a space velocity of (${\Pi},…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 M. Zoccali , A. Renzini , S. Ortolani , E. Bica , B. Barbuy

In this study, we identified and characterized the hot and luminous UV-bright stars in the globular cluster NGC 2808. We combined data from the Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) on-board the Indian space satellite, AstroSat, with the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 Deepthi S. Prabhu , Annapurni Subramaniam , Snehalata Sahu

In this letter we report on the detection of a new feature in the complex structure of the horizontal branch (HB) of the Galactic globular cluster NGC 6752. In the U vs. (U-V) plane, the HB shows a discontinuity (``jump'') at U-V ~= -1.0…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Y. Momany , G. Piotto , A. Recio-Blanco , L. R. Bedin , S. Cassisi , G. Bono

We present the chemical compositions for eight bright giants in the globular cluster NGC 1851. Our analysis reveals large star-to-star abundance variations and correlations of the light elements O, Na, and Al, a feature found in every well…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 David Yong , Frank Grundahl

Deep UBVI photometry for a large field covering the distant globular cluster M75 (NGC 6864) is presented. We confirm a previous suggestion (Catelan et al. 1998a) that M75 possesses a bimodal horizontal branch (HB) bearing striking…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Catelan , J. Borissova , F. R. Ferraro , T. M. Corwin , H. A. Smith , R. Kurtev

Most inhomogeneities in the chemical composition of GC stars are due to primordial enrichment. The model today most credited is that the winds lost by high mass Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars, evolving during the first $\simlt$200Myr…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-09 Francesca D'Antona , Paolo Ventura , Vittoria Caloi

There is a growing body of evidence for the presence of multiple stellar populations in some globular clusters, including NGC 1851. For most of these peculiar globular clusters, however, the evidence for the multiple red giant-branches…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Sang-Il Han , Young-Wook Lee , Seok-Joo Joo , Sangmo Tony Sohn , Suk-Jin Yoon , Hak-Sub Kim , Jae-Woo Lee

We present near-IR Color-Magnitude Diagrams and physical parameters for a sample of 24 Galactic Globular Clusters toward the Bulge direction. In this paper we discuss the properties of twelve new clusters (out of 24) in addition to those…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Valenti , F. R. Ferraro , L. Origlia

The global properties of all known Galactic globular clusters are examined. The relationship between the luminosities and the metallicities of Galactic globular clusters is found to be complex. Among luminous clusters there is a correlation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Sidney van den Bergh

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

NGC 6388 and NGC 6441 are two massive Galactic bulge globular clusters which share many properties, including the presence of an extended horizontal branch (HB), quite unexpected because of their high metal content. In this paper we use…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 A. Bellini , G. Piotto , A. P. Milone , I. R. King , A. Renzini , S. Cassisi , J. Anderson , L. R. Bedin , D. Nardiello , A. Pietrinferni , A. Sarajedini

The central regions of six Galactic Globular Clusters (GGCs) (M3, M80, M10, M13, M92 and NGC 288) have been imaged using HST-WFPC2 and the ultraviolet (UV) filters (F255W, F336W). The selected sample covers a large range in both central…

We present evidence that some of the compact, luminous, young star clusters recently discovered through images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have masses comparable to those of old Galactic globular clusters. The "super star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Luis C. Ho , Alexei V. Filippenko

Globular Cluster (GC) Color-Magnitude Diagrams (CMDs) are reasonably well understood in terms of standard stellar-evolution. However, there are still some open issues, such as fully accounting for the Horizontal Branch (HB) morphology in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 M. Pasquato , A. de Luca , G. Raimondo , R. Carini , A. Moraghan , C. Chung , E. Brocato , Y. -W. Lee

We present stellar photometry in the UBV passbands for the globular cluster M5 = NGC5904. The observations, short-exposured photographic plates and CCD frames, were obtained in the RC-focus of the 2m telescope of the Natl. Astron. Obs.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Haralambi Markov , Nedka Spassova , Plamen Baev

We present the first chemical analysis of stars on the double subgiant branch (SGB) of the globular cluster NGC 1851. We obtained 48 Magellan IMACS spectra of subgiants and fainter stars covering the spectral region between 3650-6750\AA, to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 C. Lardo , A. P. Milone , A. F. Marino , A. Mucciarelli , E. Pancino , M. Zoccali , M. Rejkuba , R. Carrera , O. Gonzalez

The spectroscopic and photometric signals of the star-to-star abundance variations found in globular clusters seem to be correlated with global parameters like the cluster's metallicity, mass and age. Understanding this behaviour could…