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Slicing and dicing globular clusters: dynamically evolved single stellar populations

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posted on 2024-07-26, 14:00 authored by Anna C. Sippel, Jarrod HurleyJarrod Hurley
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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0035-8711

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Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc.

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457

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4

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11 pp

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Oxford University Press

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This article has been accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Copyright © 2016 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society.

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eng

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