A new color-magnitude diagram for the peculiar star cluster E3 = C0921-770

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Color-Magnitude Diagram, Globular Clusters, Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram, Stellar Color, Stellar Luminosity, Stellar Spectrophotometry, Astronomical Photography, Horizontal Branch Stars, Peculiar Stars, Radial Velocity, Red Giant Stars, Subgiant Stars

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New photoelectric calibrating photometry and new photographic photometry have been obtained in the sparse star cluster E3 = C0921-770. A sparsely populated subgiant branch is now evident in the new color-magnitude diagram, and the position and shape of this sequence relative to the turnoff is further evidence that E3 is a globular, rather than an open, star cluster. Its distance modulus is ⪆14 mag. The substantial population of stars more luminous and cooler than the turnoff ("yellow stragglers") may require a larger correction for field-star contamination than previously expected. Relative to the main-sequence turnoff of much more populous globular clusters, E3 seems to be genuinely deficient in evolved stars.

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