Synthetic and Observed Photometric Indices for Globular Clusters in the Galaxy and M31

Details Synthetic and Observed Photometric Indices for Globular Clusters in the Galaxy and M31 Synthetic and Observed Photometric Indices for Globular Clusters in the Galaxy and M31

1994-04-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9404042v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Buzzoni's (1989) grid of synthetic spectral energy distributions, representative of old stellar populations, was used to derive colours in different photometric systems, and to compare the theoretical predictions with the observational data referring to about $120$ globular clusters in the Galaxy and to $159$ objects of the globular cluster system of M31. Synthetic and observed indices display an overall agreement in the composite planes of two-colour diagrams, thus in agreement with the standard evolutionary scenario leading, for globular clusters, to old stellar populations consistent with an age of $15$ Gyr and a Salpeter initial mass function (IMF). The two main parameters modulating the cluster colour distributions are, as known, metallicity and horizontal branch morphology, while IMF slope and mass loss rate from stars in the red-giant branch and asymptotic-giant branch evolutionary stages produce only minor, although not negligible, effects on the integrated colours. The M31 and Galactic cluster populations are found to be substantially similar, at least as far as the spectral energy distribution characteristics in the $U \to V$ spectral range are concerned.

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