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ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL
Volume 135, Issue 2, Pages 682-692Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-6256/135/2/682
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globular clusters : general; globular clusters : individual (M 92, M 13, M 3, M 71) Hertzsprung-Russell diagram; open clusters and associations : individual (NGC 6791)
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We describe an extensive observational project that has obtained high-quality and homogeneous photometry for a number of different Galactic star clusters ( including M92, M13, M3, M71, and NGC 6791) spanning a wide range in metallicity (-2.3 less than or similar to [ Fe/ H] less than or similar to + 0.4), as observed in the u ' g ' r ' i ' z ' passbands with the MegaCam wide-field imager on the Canada - France - Hawaii Telescope. By employing these purest of stellar populations, fiducial sequences have been defined from color - magnitude diagrams that extend from the tip of the red-giant branch down to approximately four magnitudes below the turnoff: these sequences have been accurately calibrated to the standard u ' g ' r ' i ' z ' system via a set of secondary photometric standards located within these same clusters. Consequently, they can serve as a valuable set of empirical fiducials for the interpretation of stellar populations data in the u ' g ' r ' i ' z ' system.
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