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Jul 1996
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HST Proposal ID #6660
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Hst Proposal Id #6660 Cool Stars
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This proposal is the natural complement of our Cycle 4 and 5 programs aimed at using the White Dwarf cooling sequence for the calibration of the globular cluster distance scale, the determination of accurate distances being a critical prerequisite for the estimate of reliable cluster ages. In Cycle 4 we obtained data on NGC6752, while in Cycle 5 we got images of 47Tuc. These two clusters will test whether there really exists a measurable age difference between the metal poor and the metal rich clusters, as has been inferred from some horizontal branch luminosity- metallicity calibration. While reducing our Cycle 4 data we have realized that a few short exposures would greatly help to accurately subtract the wings of the heavily saturated images in the field of view, hence to improve the accuracy of the faint star fotometry in the crowded field of the cluster. We therefore apply for one orbit for each of the two clusters in order to get shallow images of our Cycle 4 and 5 fields. The observed cooling sequences for the clusters {for DA and non-DA WDs} will then be fit to the corresponding FCSs to determine the cluster distance moduli. Moreover, directly fitting to each other the WD cooling sequences of the two clusters will provide very accurate relative distances {hence ages}.
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