The NICMOS View of M31's Metal Rich Globular Clusters

Stephens, Andrew W.; Frogel, Jay A.; Freedman, Wendy; Gallart, Carme; Jablonka, Pascale; Ortolani, Sergio; Renzini, Alvio; Rich, R. Michael
Referencia bibliográfica

Extragalactic Star Clusters, IAU Symposium 207, Held in Pucon, Chile March 12-16, 2001. Edited by D. Geisler, E.K. Grebel, and D. Minniti. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2002., p.154

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2002
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We have obtained HST-NICMOS observations of five of M31's most metal-rich globular clusters: G1, G170, G174, G177 & G280. For the two clusters farthest from the nucleus, G1 and G280, we statistically subtract the field population and estimate metallicities using K-(J-K) color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs). Based on the slopes of their infrared giant branches we estimate [Fe/H] =-1.22±0.43 dex for G1 and -0.15±0.37 dex for G280. We combine our infrared observations of G1 with two epochs of optical HST-WFPC2 V-band data and identify at least one LPV based on color and variability. The location of G1's giant branch in the K, (V-K) CMD is very similar to that of M107, indicating a somewhat higher metallicity than our purely infrared CMD; [Fe/H]= -0.9±0.2 dex.