Bibcode
Paust, Nathaniel E. Q.; Aparicio, Antonio; Piotto, Giampaolo; Reid, I. Neill; Anderson, Jay; Sarajedini, Ata; Bedin, Luigi R.; Chaboyer, Brian; Dotter, Aaron; Hempel, Maren; Majewski, Steven; Marín-Franch, A.; Milone, Antonino; Rosenberg, Alfred; Siegel, Michael
Bibliographical reference
The Astronomical Journal, Volume 137, Issue 1, pp. 246-256 (2009).
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2009
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Description
We have used observations obtained as part of the Hubble Space
Telescope/ACS Survey of Galactic globular clusters (GCs) to construct a
color-magnitude diagram for the bulge cluster, NGC 6366. The luminosity
function derived from those data extends to M F606W ~ 9, or
masses of ~0.3 M sun. Unlike most GCs, the mass function
peaks near the main-sequence turnoff with significantly fewer low-mass
stars even after correction for completeness and mass segregation. Using
a multimass King model, we extrapolate the global cluster behavior and
find the global mass function to be poorly matched by a power law, with
a particular deficit of stars with masses between 0.5 and 0.7 M
sun. We briefly discuss this interesting anomaly within the
context of tidal stripping.
Based on observations made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope,
obtained at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by
the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under
NASA contract NAS 5-26555. These observations are associated with
program GO-10775.
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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