Bibcode
Nardiello, D.; Piotto, G.; Milone, A. P.; Marino, A. F.; Bedin, L. R.; Anderson, J.; Aparicio, A.; Bellini, A.; Cassisi, S.; D'Antona, F.; Hidalgo, S.; Ortolani, S.; Pietrinferni, A.; Renzini, A.; Salaris, M.; Marel, R. P. van der; Vesperini, E.
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 451, Issue 1, p.312-322
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2015
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51
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43
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In this paper, we combine Wide Field Camera3/UVIS F275W, F336W, and
F438W data from the `UV Legacy Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters:
Shedding Light on Their Populations and Formation' (GO 13297) Hubble
Space Telescope Treasury programme with F606W, F625W, F658N, and F814W
Advanced Camera for Surveys archive data for a multiwavelength study of
the globular cluster NGC 6352. In the colour-magnitude and two-colour
diagrams obtained with appropriate combination of the photometry in the
different bands, we separate two distinct stellar populations and trace
them from the main sequence to the subgiant, red giant, horizontal and
asymptotic giant branches. We infer that the two populations differ in
He by ΔY = 0.029 ± 0.006. With a new method, we also
estimate the age difference between the two sequences. Assuming no
difference in [Fe/H] and [α/Fe], and the uncertainties on
ΔY, we found a difference in age between the two populations of 10
± 120 Myr. If we assume [Fe/H] and [α/Fe] differences of
0.02 dex (well within the uncertainties of spectroscopic measurements),
the total uncertainty in the relative age rises to ˜300 Myr.
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The general aim of the project is to research the structure, evolutionary history and formation of galaxies through the study of their resolved stellar populations, both from photometry and spectroscopy. The group research concentrates in the most nearby objects, namely the Local Group galaxies including the Milky Way and M33 under the hypothesis
Martín
López Corredoira