Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-08-29
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Accepted for publication in ApJ (22 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables)
Scientific paper
We study the binary fraction of the globular cluster M10 (NGC 6254) as a function of radius from the cluster core to the outskirts, by means of a quan- titative analysis of the color distribution of stars relative to the fiducial main sequence. By taking advantage of two data-sets, acquired with the Advanced Camera for Survey and the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on board the Hubble Space Telescope, we have studied both the core and the external regions of the cluster. The binary fraction is found to decrease from 14% within the core, to 1.5% in a region between 1 and 2 half-mass radii from the cluster centre. Such a trend and the derived values are in agreement with previous results ob- tained in clusters of comparable total magnitude. The estimated binary fraction is sufficient to account for the suppression of mass segregation observed in M10, without any need to invoke the presence of an intermediate-mass black hole in its centre.
Beccari Giacomo
Dalessandro Emanuele
Ferraro Francesco R.
Lanzoni Barbara
Pasquato Mario
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