Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-02-08
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
19 pages, including 26 figures. AN in press. Figure 9 stubbornly resists attempts to correct it
Scientific paper
10.1002/asna.200610711
Broadband colours are often used as metallicity proxies in the study of extragalactic globular clusters. A common concern is the effect of variations in horizontal branch (HB) morphology--the second-parameter effect--on such colours. We have used UBVI, Washington, and DDO photometry for a compilation of over 80 Milky Way globular clusters to address this question. Our method is to fit linear relations between colour and [Fe/H], and study the correlations between the residuals about these fits and two quantitative measures of HB morphology. While there is a significant HB effect seen in U-B, for the commonly used colours B-V, V-I, and C-T_1, the deviations from the baseline colour-[Fe/H] relations are less strongly related to HB morphology. There may be weak signatures in B-V and C-T_1, but these are at the limit of observational uncertainties. The results may favour the use of B-I in studies of extragalactic globular clusters, especially when its high [Fe/H]-sensitivity is considered.
Smith Graeme H.
Strader Jay
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