HST - WFPC2 photometry of the globular cluster ngc 288: binary systems, blue stragglers and very blue stars

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1999-10-28

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9910522v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, 3 figures, in press in the chemical evolution of the Milky Way: stars versus clusters, F. Matteucci and F. Giovannell

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We report on new WFPC2 observations of the globular cluster NGC 288, focusing our attention on peculiar stars. A very pronounced binary sequence, paralleling the ordinary Main Sequence (MS) is clearly observed in the Color Magnitude Diagram (CMD) and a huge relative fraction of Blue Straggler Stars is measured. The dataset offers the opportunity of studying the evolution of a large population of binaries (and binary evolution by-products) in a low density environment, where the evolution of such systems is not dominated by collisions and encounters. Three (very) Extreme Horizontal Branch Stars have been found, all lying outside of the cluster core.

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