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Slicing and dicing globular clusters: dynamically evolved single stellar populations
Author(s) -
Anna C. Sippel,
Jarrod R. Hurley
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
monthly notices of the royal astronomical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.058
H-Index - 383
eISSN - 1365-8711
pISSN - 0035-8711
DOI - 10.1093/mnras/stw180
Subject(s) - globular cluster , physics , astrophysics , star cluster , hubble space telescope , stars , astronomy , stellar evolution , cluster (spacecraft) , stellar mass , advanced camera for surveys , radius , mass segregation , blue straggler , hertzsprung–russell diagram , stellar collision , star formation , computer security , computer science , programming language
We utilize direct N-body models of globular clusters including stellar evolution to calculate magnitudes for each star in the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys 555, 606 and 814 filters. This enables us to analyse the colour of dynamically evolved single stellar populations over time in colour-magnitude diagrams of both, resolved and integrated globular clusters. We find that the change of integrated cluster colour is driven predominantly by the colour of the brightest stars available and hence by stellar evolution, but not by the removal of low-mass stars. We show that even in mass-segregated clusters, different stellar populations are distributed over the entire cluster. This implies that evolved stars also exist within and outside the half-mass radius

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