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Paust, Nathaniel; Reid, I.; King, I.; Aparicio, A.; Piotto, G.
Bibliographical reference
2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #100.11; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 38, p.1044
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Description
Using data collected as part of the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced
Camera for Surveys (ACS) study of Galactic gobular clusters, we present
photometry and luminosity functions (LFs) extending several magnitudes
below the main sequence turn off for a sample of Galactic globular
clusters. These clusters have been selected from the larger ACS survey
based on the Trager et al. (1995) catalog of globular cluster surface
brightness profiles in order to select two groups of clusters: one with
seemingly normal profiles and one with unusual profiles. The LFs have
been compared to stellar models from the DSEP code (Chaboyer et al.
2001) using several different statistical methods to determine
parameters such as age, distance modulus, and IMF slope. Future work on
this project will result in a large homogenous sample of LFs and mass
functions which will be useful in a wide range of astronomical projects.
Support for this work (GO-10775) was provided by NASA through a grant
from the Space Telescope Science Institute which is operated by the
Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Incorporated,
under NASA contract NAS5-26555.