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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 477, 期 2, 页码 1991-2006出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty719
关键词
techniques: photometric; stars: Population II; globular clusters: individual: NGC7078
资金
- Universita degli Studi di Padova Progetto di Ateneo [CPDA141214]
- PRIN-INAF2014
- European Research Council [716082]
- Australian Research Council [DE160100851]
- STScI grant [GO-13297]
- Australian Research Council [DE160100851] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
- European Research Council (ERC) [716082] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
In the context of the Hubble Space Telescope UV Survey of Galactic globular clusters (GCs), we derived high-precision, multi-band photometry to investigate the multiple stellar populations in the massive and metal-poor GCM15. By creating for red-giant branch (RGB) stars of the cluster a 'chromosome map', which is a pseudo two-colour diagram made with appropriate combination of F275W, F336W, F438W, and F814W magnitudes, we revealed colour spreads around two of the three already known stellar populations. These spreads cannot be produced by photometric errors alone and could hide the existence of (two) additional populations. This discovery increases the complexity of the multiple-population phenomenon inM15. Our analysis shows that M15 exhibits a faint sub-giant branch (SGB), which is also detected in colour-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) made with optical magnitudes only. This poorly populated SGB includes about 5 per cent of the total number of SGB stars and evolves into a red RGB in the m(F336W) versus m(F336W) - m(F814W) CMD, suggesting that M15 belongs to the class of Type II GCs. We measured the relative number of stars in each population at various radial distances from the cluster centre, showing that all of these populations share the same radial distribution within statistic uncertainties. These new findings are discussed in the context of the formation and evolution scenarios of the multiple populations.
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