Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-12-14
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 324 (2001) 167
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
11 pages with 17 eps figs
Scientific paper
Taking advantage of recent HST data for field stars in the region of the Galactic globular cluster NGC 6397, we tested the predictions of several Galactic models with star counts reaching a largely unexplored range of magnitudes, down to $V$$\sim$ 26.5. After updating the input stellar ($V-I$) colors, we found that the two-component Bahcall-Soneira (B&S) model can be put in satisfactory agreement with observations for suitable choices of disk/spheroid luminosity functions. However if one assumes the Gould, Bahcall and Flynn (1996, 1997) disk luminosity function (LF) together with the Gould, Flynn and Bahcall (1998) spheroid LF, there is no way to reconcile the predicted and observed $V $-magnitude distribution. We also analysed the agreement between observed and predicted magnitude and color distributions for two selected models with a thick disk component. Even in this case there are suitable combinations of model parameters and faint magnitude LFs which can give a reasonable agreement with observational star counts both in magnitude and in color, the above quoted combination of Gould et al. (1997, 1998) LFs giving again predictions in clear disagreement with observations.
Castellani Vittorio
Degl'Innocenti Scilla
Petroni Silvia
Piotto Giampaolo
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