Bibcode
Iannicola, G.; Monelli, M.; Bono, G.; Stetson, P. B.; Buonanno, R.; Calamida, A.; Zoccali, M.; Caputo, F.; Castellani, M.; Corsi, C. E.; Dall'Ora, M.; Cecco, A. Di; Degl'Innocenti, S.; Ferraro, I.; Nonino, M.; Pietrinferni, A.; Pulone, L.; Moroni, P. G. Prada; Romaniello, M.; Sanna, N.; Walker, A. R.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 696, Issue 2, pp. L120-L124 (2009).
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2009
Citations
21
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Description
We present accurate new ultraviolet and optical BVI photometry for the
Galactic globular cluster NGC 2808 based on both ground-based and
archival Hubble Space telescope imagery. From this we have selected a
sample of ~2000 Horizontal Branch (HB) stars; given the extensive
wavelength range considered and the combination of both high angular
resolution and wide-field photometric coverage, our sample should be
minimally biased. We divide the HB stars into three radial bins and find
that the relative fractions of cool, hot, and extreme HB stars do not
change radically when moving from the center to the outskirts of the
cluster: the difference is typically smaller than ~2σ. These
results argue against the presence of strong radial differentiation
among any stellar subpopulations having distinctly different helium
abundances. The ratio between HB and red giant (RG) stars brighter than
the ZAHB steadily increases when moving from the innermost to the
outermost cluster regions. The difference is larger than ~4σ and
indicates a deficiency of bright RGs in the outskirts of the cluster.
Based on observations collected with the ACS, WFPC2 and STIS onboard the
Hubble Space Telescope.
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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