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American Astronomical Society, Astrophysical Journal, 2(697), p. 965-979, 2009

DOI: 10.1088/0004-637x/697/2/965

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The End of the White Dwarf Cooling Sequence in M4: an efficient approach

Journal article published in 2009 by Luigi R. Bedin ORCID, Bedin Lr, Maurizio Salaris, Giampaolo Piotto ORCID, Jay Anderson, King Ir, Ivan R. King, and Santi Cassisi ORCID
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Abstract

We use 14 orbits of Advanced Camera for Surveys observations to reach the end of the white dwarf cooling sequence in the globular cluster M4. Our photometry and completeness tests show that the end is located at magnitude m F606W = 28.5 ± 0.1, which implies an age of 11.6 ± 0.6 Gyr (internal errors only). This is consistent with the age from fits to the main-sequence turnoff (12.0 ± 1.4 Gyr). 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, under GO-10146.