Ata Sarajedini et al. 2007 The Astronomical Journal 133 1658 doi:10.1086/511979
Ata Sarajedini1, Luigi R. Bedin2, Brian Chaboyer3, Aaron Dotter3, Michael Siegel4, Jay Anderson5, Antonio Aparicio6, Ivan King7, Steven Majewski8, A. Marín-Franch9, Giampaolo Piotto10, I. Neill Reid11 and Alfred Rosenberg12
Show affiliationsWe present the first results of a large Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) survey of Galactic globular clusters. This Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Treasury project is designed to obtain photometry with S/N (signal-to-noise ratio)
10 for main-sequence stars with masses
0.2 M
in a sample of globulars using the ACS Wide Field Channel. Here we focus on clusters without previous HST imaging data. These include NGC 5466, NGC 6779, NGC 5053, NGC 6144, Palomar 2, E3, Lyngå 7, Palomar 1, and NGC 6366. Our color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) extend reliably from the horizontal branch to as much as 7 mag fainter than the main-sequence turnoff and represent the deepest CMDs published to date for these clusters. Using fiducial sequences for three standard clusters (M92, NGC 6752, and 47 Tuc) with well-known metallicities and distances, we perform main-sequence fitting on the target clusters in order to obtain estimates of their distances and reddenings. These comparisons, along with fitting the cluster main sequences to theoretical isochrones, yield ages for the target clusters. We find that the majority of the clusters have ages that are consistent with the standard clusters at their metallicities. The exceptions are E3, which appears ~2 Gyr younger than 47 Tuc, and Pal 1, which could be as much as 8 Gyr younger than 47 Tuc.
globular clusters: individual (E3, Lyngå 7, NGC 5053, NGC 5466, NGC 6144, NGC 6366, NGC 6779, Palomar 1, Palomar 2); Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
Issue 4 (2007 April)
Received 2006 October 2, accepted for publication 2006 December 14
Published 2007 March 12
Ata Sarajedini et al. 2007 The Astronomical Journal 133 1658
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