Bibcode
Simioni, M.; Milone, A. P.; Bedin, L. R.; Aparicio, A.; Piotto, G.; Vesperini, E.; Hong, J.
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 463, Issue 1, p.449-458
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2016
Citations
42
Refereed citations
37
Description
Due to their extreme helium abundance, the multiple stellar populations
of the globular cluster NGC 2808 have been widely investigated from a
photometric, spectroscopic, and kinematic perspective. The most striking
feature of the colour-magnitude diagram of NGC 2808 is the triple main
sequence (MS), with the red MS corresponding to a stellar population
with primordial helium, and the middle and the blue MS being enhanced in
helium up to Y ˜ 0.32 and ˜0.38, respectively. A recent
study has revealed that this massive cluster hosts at least five
distinct stellar populations (A, B, C, D, and E). Among them populations
A, B, and C correspond to the red MS, while populations C and D are
connected to the middle and the blue MS. In this paper, we exploit
Hubble Space Telescope photometry to investigate the radial distribution
of the red, the middle, and the blue MS from the cluster centre out to
about 8.5 arcmin. Our analysis shows that the radial distribution of
each of the three MSs is different. In particular, as predicted from
multiple-population formation models, both the blue MS and the middle MS
appears to be more concentrated than the red MS with a significance
level for this result which is above 3σ.