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Soto, M.; Bellini, A.; Anderson, J.; Piotto, G.; Bedin, L. R.; van der Marel, R. P.; Milone, A. P.; Brown, T. M.; Cool, A. M.; King, I. R.; Sarajedini, A.; Granata, V.; Cassisi, S.; Aparicio, A.; Hidalgo, S.; Ortolani, S.; Nardiello, D.
Bibliographical reference
The Astronomical Journal, Volume 153, Issue 1, article id. 19, 10 pp. (2017).
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The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) UV Legacy Survey of Galactic Globular
Clusters (GO-13297) has been specifically designed to complement the
existing F606W and F814W observations of the Advanced Camera for Surveys
(ACS) Globular Cluster Survey (GO-10775) by observing the most
accessible 47 of the previous survey’s 65 clusters in three
WFC3/UVIS filters F275W, F336W, and F438W. The new survey also adds
super-solar metallicity open cluster NGC 6791 to increase the
metallicity diversity. The combined survey provides a homogeneous 5-band
data set that can be used to pursue a broad range of scientific
investigations. In particular, the chosen UV filters allow the
identification of multiple stellar populations by targeting the regions
of the spectrum that are sensitive to abundance variations in C, N, and
O. In order to provide the community with uniform preliminary catalogs,
we have devised an automated procedure that performs high-quality
photometry on the new UV observations (along with similar observations
of seven other programs in the archive). This procedure finds and
measures the potential sources on each individual exposure using library
point-spread functions and cross-correlates these observations with the
original ACS-Survey catalog. The catalog of 57 clusters we publish here
will be useful to identify stars in the different stellar populations,
in particular for spectroscopic follow-up. Eventually, we will construct
a more sophisticated catalog and artificial-star tests based on an
optimal reduction of the UV survey data, but the catalogs presented here
give the community the chance to make early use of this HST Treasury
survey.
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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
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López Corredoira