On the Kinematic Separation of Field and Cluster Stars across the Bulge Globular NGC 6528

Walker, A.; Monelli, M.; Matsunaga, N.; Iannicola, G.; Gilmozzi, R.; Ferraro, I.; Calamida, A.; Buonanno, R.; Aparicio, A.; Dall'Ora, M.; Prada Moroni, P. G.; Bono, G.; Stetson, P. B.; Milone, A. P.; Lagioia, E. P.
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The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 782, Issue 1, article id. 50, 11 pp. (2014).

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2014
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Description
We present deep and precise multi-band photometry of the Galactic bulge globular cluster NGC 6528. The current data set includes optical and near-infrared images collected with ACS/WFC, WFC3/UVIS, and WFC3/IR on board the Hubble Space Telescope. The images cover a time interval of almost 10 yr, and we have been able to carry out a proper-motion separation between cluster and field stars. We performed a detailed comparison in the m F814W, m F606W – m F814W color-magnitude diagram with two empirical calibrators observed in the same bands. We found that NGC 6528 is coeval with and more metal-rich than 47 Tuc. Moreover, it appears older and more metal-poor than the super-metal-rich open cluster NGC 6791. The current evidence is supported by several diagnostics (red horizontal branch, red giant branch bump, shape of the sub-giant branch, slope of the main sequence) that are minimally affected by uncertainties in reddening and distance. We fit the optical observations with theoretical isochrones based on a scaled-solar chemical mixture and found an age of 11 ± 1 Gyr and an iron abundance slightly above solar ([Fe/H] = +0.20). The iron abundance and the old cluster age further support the recent spectroscopic findings suggesting a rapid chemical enrichment of the Galactic bulge.
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