Submitting Campus
Daytona Beach
Department
Physical Sciences
Document Type
Article
Publication/Presentation Date
Fall 11-9-2018
Abstract/Description
We use Cycle 21 Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations and HST archival ACS Treasury observations of Galactic Globular Clusters to find and characterize two stellar populations in NGC 5024 (M53), NGC 5272 (M3), and NGC 6352. For these three clusters, both single and double-population analyses are used to determine a best fit isochrone(s). We employ a sophisticated Bayesian analysis technique to simultaneously fit the cluster parameters (age, distance, absorption, and metallicity) that characterize each cluster. For the two-population analysis, unique population level helium values are also fit to each distinct population of the cluster and the relative proportions of the populations are determined. We find differences in helium ranging from 0.05 to 0.11 for these three clusters. Model grids with solar a-element abundances ([a/Fe] =0.0) and enhanced a-elements ([a/Fe]=0.4) are adopted.
Publication Title
The Astrophysical Journal
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/826/1/42
Publisher
The American Astronomical Society, The Institute of Physics
Grant or Award Name
NSF grant DMS 1208791, NASA grant NNX11AF34G
Scholarly Commons Citation
Wagner-Kaiser, R., von Hippel, T., Stenning, D., Robinson, E., Sarajedini, A., van Dyk, D., Stein, N., & Jefferys, W. H. (2018). Bayesian Analysis of Two Stellar Populations in Galactic Globular Clusters II: NGC 5024, NGC 5272, and NGC 6352. The Astrophysical Journal, 826(1). https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/826/1/42
