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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 743, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/743/2/187
Keywords
Galaxy: halo; Galaxy: structure; globular clusters: general; methods: data analysis; stars: statistics; surveys
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Funding
- National Science Foundation [AST 10-09670]
- NASA/NY
- NSFC [10973015, 11061120454]
- NSF REU [IIS 06-12213, DMR 08-50934]
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Participating Institutions
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Japanese Monbukagakusho
- Max Planck Society
- Higher Education Funding Council for England.
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0850934] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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F turnoff stars are important tools for studying Galactic halo substructure because they are plentiful, luminous, and can be easily selected by their photometric colors from large surveys such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We describe the absolute magnitude distribution of color-selected F turnoff stars, as measured from SDSS data, for 11 globular clusters in the MilkyWay halo. We find that the M-g distribution of turnoff stars is intrinsically the same for all clusters studied, and is well fit by two half-Gaussian functions, centered at mu = 4.18, with a bright-side sigma = 0.36, and with a faint-side sigma = 0.76. However, the color errors and detection efficiencies cause the observed s of the faint-side Gaussian to change with magnitude due to contamination from redder main-sequence stars (40% at 21st magnitude). We present a function that will correct for this magnitude- dependent change in selected stellar populations, when calculating stellar density from color-selected turnoff stars. We also present a consistent set of distances, ages, and metallicities for 11 clusters in the SDSS Data Release 7. We calculate a linear correction function to Padova isochrones so that they are consistent with SDSS globular cluster data from previous papers. We show that our cluster population falls along the Milky Way age-metallicity relationship (AMR), and further find that isochrones for stellar populations on the AMR have very similar turnoffs; increasing metallicity and decreasing age conspire to produce similar turnoff magnitudes and colors for all old clusters that lie on the AMR.
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