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Oxford University Press (OUP), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1(447), p. 927-938

DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stu2446

American Astronomical Society, Astronomical Journal, 3(149), p. 91, 2015

DOI: 10.1088/0004-6256/149/3/91

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Thehubble Space Telescopeuv Legacy Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters. I. Overview of the Project and Detection of Multiple Stellar Populations

Journal article published in 2015 by G. Piotto ORCID, A. P. Milone ORCID, L. R. Bedin, J. Anderson, I. R. King, A. F. Marino, D. Nardiello, A. Aparicio, B. Barbuy, A. Bellini ORCID, T. M. Brown, S. Cassisi, A. M. Cool, A. Cunial, E. Dalessandro ORCID and other authors.
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Abstract

In this paper we describe a new UV-initiative Hubble Space Telescope project (GO-13297) that will complement the existing F606W and F814W database of the Advanced Camera for Surveys Globular Cluster (GC) Treasury by imaging most of its clusters through UV/blue WFC3/UVIS filters F275W, F336W, and F438W. This “magic trio” of filters has shown an uncanny ability to disentangle and characterize multiple population (MP) patterns in GCs in a way that is exquisitely sensitive to C, N, and O abundance variations. Combination of these passbands with those in the optical also gives the best leverage for measuring helium enrichment. The dozen clusters that had previously been observed in these bands exhibit a bewildering variety of MP patterns, and the new survey will map the full variance of the phenomenon. The ubiquity of multiple stellar generations in GCs has made the formation of these cornerstone objects more intriguing than ever; GC formation and the origin of their MPs have now become one and the same problem. In this paper we will describe the database and our data reduction strategy, as well as the uses we intend to make of the final photometry, astrometry, and PMs. We will also present preliminary color-magnitude diagrams from the data so far collected. These diagrams also draw on data from GO-12605 and GO-12311, which served as a pilot project for the present GO-13297. Based on observations with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, obtained at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by AURA, Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5-26555.