High-resolution optical imaging of the core of the globular cluster M15 with FastCam

Details High-resolution optical imaging of the core of the globular cluster M15 with FastCam High-resolution optical imaging of the core of the globular cluster M15 with FastCam

2012-04-24

arxiv.org/abs/1204.5340v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxy Astrophysics

11 pages, 15 figures. Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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We present high-resolution I-band imaging of the core of the globular cluster M15 obtained at the 2.5 m Nordic Optical Telescope with FastCam, a low readout noise L3CCD based instrument. Short exposure times (30 ms) were used to record 200000 images (512 x 512 pixels each) over a period of 2 hours 43 min. The lucky imaging technique was then applied to generate a final image of the cluster centre with FWHM ~ 0".1 and 13" x 13" FoV. We obtained a catalogue of objects in this region with a limiting magnitude of I=19.5. I-band photometry and astrometry are reported for 1181 stars. This is the deepest I-band observation of the M15 core at this spatial resolution. Simulations show that crowding is limiting the completeness of the catalogue. At shorter wavelengths, a similar number of objects has been reported using HST/WFPC observations of the same field. The cross-match with the available HST catalogues allowed us to produce colour-magnitude diagrams where we identify new Blue Straggler star candidates and previously known stars of this class.

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