Bibcode
Monty, S.; Puzia, Thomas H.; Miller, Bryan W.; Carrasco, Eleazar R.; Simunovic, Mirko; Schirmer, Mischa; Stetson, Peter B.; Cassisi, Santi; Venn, Kim A.; Dotter, Aaron; Goudfrooij, Paul; Perina, Sibilla; Pessev, P.; Sarajedini, Ata; Taylor, Matthew A.
Referencia bibliográfica
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 865, Issue 2, article id. 160, 23 pp. (2018).
Fecha de publicación:
10
2018
Revista
Número de citas
18
Número de citas referidas
17
Descripción
We present the first results from the GeMS/GSAOI Galactic Globular
Cluster Survey (G4CS) of the Milky Way globular clusters NGC 3201 and
NGC 2298. Using the Gemini South Adaptive Optics Imager (GSAOI), in
tandem with the Gemini Multi-conjugate adaptive optics System (GeMS) on
the 8.1 m Gemini-South telescope, we collected deep near-IR observations
of both clusters, resolving their constituent stellar populations down
to K s ≃ 21 Vega mag. Point-spread function (PSF)
photometry was performed on the data using spatially variable PSFs to
generate JHK s photometric catalogs for both clusters.
These catalogs were combined with Hubble Space Telescope (HST) data to
augment the photometric wavelength coverage, yielding catalogs that span
the near-UV to near-IR. We then applied 0.14 mas yr‑1
accurate proper-motion cleaning and differential-reddening corrections
and chose to anchor our isochrones using the lower main-sequence knee
and the main-sequence turnoff prior to age determination. As a result of
the data quality, we found that the K s versus F606W
‑ K s and F336W versus F336W ‑ K s
color–magnitude diagrams were the most diagnostically powerful. We
used these two color combinations to derive the stellar population ages,
distances, and reddening values for both clusters. Following isochrone
fitting using three different isochrone sets, we derived best-fit
absolute ages of 12.2 ± 0.5 Gyr and 13.2 ± 0.4 Gyr for NGC
3201 and NGC 2298, respectively. This was done using a weighted average
over the two aforementioned color combinations, following a pseudo-χ
2 determination of the best-fit isochrone set. Our derived
parameters are in good agreement with recent age determinations of the
two clusters, with our constraints on the ages being or ranking among
the most statistically robust.