Color and population gradients in the core of the postcollapse globular cluster M30

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Globular Clusters, Stellar Color, Stellar Spectrophotometry, Balmer Series, Charge Coupled Devices, Color-Magnitude Diagram, Star Distribution

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The authors have developed a new technique for seeking color gradients in multicolor CCD images of a globular cluster. Application of this technique to M30 confirms the radial color gradient reported by others. The B-V and V-R colors show linear gradients, when plotted against log r, that are many times their statistical errors. In the radial range ≡3 - 100 arcsec, the B-V and V-R colors increase outwards by about (0.18±0.015) mag/dex and (0.09±0.01) mag/dex, respectively. Color-magnitude arrays of the central region show that the Balmer-line strength that accompanies the central blueness is due to an increased proportion of blue-horizontal-branch starlight in the center. This excess does not appear to be statistically significant in terms of star numbers, even though the color gradient is so highly significant.

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