A new method to determine Globular Cluster ages

Details A new method to determine Globular Cluster ages A new method to determine Globular Cluster ages

1996-02-02

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9602014v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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We present a new method to compute stellar ages in Globular Clusters (GC) that is ten times more precise than the traditional isochrone fitting procedure. The method relies on accurate stellar evolutionary tracks and on photometry for GCs complete down to the main sequence, and it is based on counting number of stars in two different regions of the CMD: the red giant branch and the main-sequence. We have applied this method to the globular cluster M68 and found an age of 16.4$\pm$0.2 Gyr for $(m-M)_V=15.3$. This new method reduces the error associated to the uncertainty in the distance modulus by a factor of two, the error due to the choice of the value for the mixing length parameter to almost zero and the error due to the colour-$T_{\rm eff}$ transformation to zero.

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