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2014ApJ...782...50L - Astrophys. J., 782, 50 (2014/February-2)

On the kinematic separation of field and cluster stars across the bulge globular NGC 6528.

LAGIOIA E.P., MILONE A.P., STETSON P.B., BONO G., PRADA MORONI P.G., DALL'ORA M., APARICIO A., BUONANNO R., CALAMIDA A., FERRARO I., GILMOZZI R., IANNICOLA G., MATSUNAGA N., MONELLI M. and WALKER A.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present deep and precise multi-band photometry of the Galactic bulge globular cluster NGC 6528. The current data set includes optical and near-infrared images collected with ACS/WFC, WFC3/UVIS, and WFC3/IR on board the Hubble Space Telescope. The images cover a time interval of almost 10 yr, and we have been able to carry out a proper-motion separation between cluster and field stars. We performed a detailed comparison in the mF814W, mF606W- mF814Wcolor-magnitude diagram with two empirical calibrators observed in the same bands. We found that NGC 6528 is coeval with and more metal-rich than 47 Tuc. Moreover, it appears older and more metal-poor than the super-metal-rich open cluster NGC 6791. The current evidence is supported by several diagnostics (red horizontal branch, red giant branch bump, shape of the sub-giant branch, slope of the main sequence) that are minimally affected by uncertainties in reddening and distance. We fit the optical observations with theoretical isochrones based on a scaled-solar chemical mixture and found an age of 11±1 Gyr and an iron abundance slightly above solar ([Fe/H] = +0.20). The iron abundance and the old cluster age further support the recent spectroscopic findings suggesting a rapid chemical enrichment of the Galactic bulge.

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Journal keyword(s): globular clusters: general - globular clusters: individual (NGC 6528, NGC 104, NGC 6791) - stars: evolution

Errata: erratum vol. 785, art. 50 (2014)

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