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Probing the Faintest Stars in a Globular Star Cluster [PDF]

open access: yesScience, 2006
NGC 6397 is the second closest globular star cluster to the Sun. Using 5 days of time on the Hubble Space Telescope, we have constructed an ultradeep color-magnitude diagram for this cluster. We see a clear truncation in each of its two major stellar sequences.
Richer, Harvey B.   +12 more
openaire   +5 more sources

A Wide View of the Galactic Globular Cluster NGC 2808: Red Giant and Horizontal Branch Star Spatial Distributions

open access: yesThe Astronomical Journal, 2023
Wide-field and deep DECam multiband photometry, combined with HST data for the core of the Galactic globular cluster NGC 2808, allowed us to study the distribution of various stellar subpopulations and stars in different evolutionary phases out to the ...
Christian I. Johnson   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

oMEGACat. I. MUSE Spectroscopy of 300,000 Stars within the Half-light Radius of ω Centauri

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal, 2023
Omega Centauri ( ω 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.
M. S. Nitschai   +19 more
doaj   +1 more source

Neutron Stars in Globular Clusters [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 2007
AbstractDynamical interactions that occur between objects in dense stellar systems are particularly important for the question of formation of X-ray binaries. We present results of numerical simulations of 70 globular clusters with different dynamical properties and a total stellar mass of 2×107M⊙.
Craig O. Heinke   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

EVOLUTION OF THE MASS AND LUMINOSITY FUNCTIONS OF GLOBULAR STAR CLUSTERS [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
We reexamine the dynamical evolution of the mass and luminosity functions of globular star clusters (GCMF and GCLF). Fall & Zhang (2001, FZ01) showed that a power-law MF, as commonly seen among young cluster systems, would evolve by dynamical processes ...
P. Goudfrooij, S. M. Fall
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Young Star Clusters: Progenitors of Globular Clusters!? [PDF]

open access: yesHighlights of Astronomy, 2005
AbstractStar cluster formation is a major mode of star formation in the extreme conditions of interacting galaxies and violent starbursts. Young clusters are observed to form in a variety of such galaxies, a substantial number resembling the progenitors of globular clusters in mass and size, but with significantly enhanced metallicity.
Anders, Peter   +2 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Massive star archeology in globular clusters [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 2014
AbstractGlobular clusters are among the oldest structures in the Universe and they host today low-mass stars and no gas. However, there has been a time when they formed as gaseous objects hosting a large number of short-lived, massive stars. Many details on this early epoch have been depicted recently through unprecedented dissection of low-mass ...
Chantereau, W.   +2 more
openaire   +6 more sources

Dynamics of Stars and Globular Clusters in M87 [PDF]

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal, 2001
We examine the dynamics of the stars and globular clusters in the nearby giant galaxy M87 and constrain the mass distribution, using all the available data over a large range of radii, including higher-order moments of the stellar line-of-sight velocity distributions and the discrete velocities of over two hundred globular clusters.
Christopher S. Kochanek   +2 more
openaire   +6 more sources

Blue hook stars in globular clusters [PDF]

open access: yesMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 2009
Abstract Blue hook (BHk) stars are a rare class of horizontal branch stars that have so far been found in only very few Galactic globular clusters (GCs). The dominant mechanism for producing these objects is currently still unclear.
Dieball, A.   +6 more
openaire   +5 more sources

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