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Walker, A.; Monelli, M.; Matsunaga, N.; Iannicola, G.; Gilmozzi, R.; Ferraro, I.; Calamida, A.; Buonanno, R.; Aparicio, A.; Dall'Ora, M.; Prada Moroni, P. G.; Bono, G.; Stetson, P. B.; Milone, A. P.; Lagioia, E. P.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 782, Issue 1, article id. 50, 11 pp. (2014).
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We present deep and precise multi-band photometry of the Galactic bulge
globular cluster NGC 6528. The current data set includes optical and
near-infrared images collected with ACS/WFC, WFC3/UVIS, and WFC3/IR on
board the Hubble Space Telescope. The images cover a time interval of
almost 10 yr, and we have been able to carry out a proper-motion
separation between cluster and field stars. We performed a detailed
comparison in the m F814W, m F606W – m
F814W color-magnitude diagram with two empirical calibrators
observed in the same bands. We found that NGC 6528 is coeval with and
more metal-rich than 47 Tuc. Moreover, it appears older and more
metal-poor than the super-metal-rich open cluster NGC 6791. The current
evidence is supported by several diagnostics (red horizontal branch, red
giant branch bump, shape of the sub-giant branch, slope of the main
sequence) that are minimally affected by uncertainties in reddening and
distance. We fit the optical observations with theoretical isochrones
based on a scaled-solar chemical mixture and found an age of 11 ±
1 Gyr and an iron abundance slightly above solar ([Fe/H] = +0.20). The
iron abundance and the old cluster age further support the recent
spectroscopic findings suggesting a rapid chemical enrichment of the
Galactic bulge.
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Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies
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