The Red Giant Branch in the Near-Infrared Colour-Magnitude Diagrams. I: The calibration of photometric indices

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2004-03-23

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0403563v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 351 (2004) 1204

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages, 11 figures accepted by MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07861.x

We present new high-quality near-infrared photometry of 10 Galactic Globular Clusters spanning a wide metallicity range (-2.12<[Fe/H]<-0.49): five clusters belong to the Halo (namely, NGC288, NGC362, NGC6752, M15 and M30) and five (namely, NGC6342, NGC6380, NGC6440, NGC6441 and NGC6624) to the Bulge. By combining J, H and K observations with optical data, we constructed Colour-Magnitude Diagrams in various planes (K,J-K), (K,V-K), (H,J-H), and (H,V-H). A set of photometric indices (colours, magnitudes and slopes) describing the location and the morphology of the Red Giant Branch (RGB) have been measured. We have combined this new data set with those already published by Ferraro et al.(2000) and Valenti et al. (2004), and here we present an updated calibration of the various RGB indices in the 2MASS photometric system, in terms of the cluster metallicity.

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