Spectral types and masses of white dwarfs in globular clusters

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 420, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 515-525

  Moehler, S ^a,d   Koester, D ^a   Zoccali, M ^b,e   Ferraro, F R ^c   Heber, U ^d   Napiwotzki, R ^d   Renzini, A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^e EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Galaxy: globular clusters: individual: NGC 6397; Galaxy: globular clusters: individual: NGC 6752; Stars: white dwarfs

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; GRAVITATION; HELIUM; HYDROGEN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTOMETRY; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

GALAXY: GLOBULAR CLUSTERS: INDIVIDUAL: NGC 6397; GALAXY: GLOBULAR CLUSTERS: INDIVIDUAL: NGC 6752; STARS: WHITE DWARFS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 2942553510     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20035819     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Buonanno, R., & Iannicola, G. 1988, PASP, 101, 294
2. Buonanno, R., Buscema, G., Corsi, C. E., Ferraro, I., & Iannicola, G. 1983, A&A, 126, 278
3. Chabrier, G., Brassard, P., Fontaine, G., & Saumon, D. 2000, ApJ, 543, 216
4. Colina, L., Bohlin, R. C., & Castelli, F. 1996, Instrument Science Report OSG-CAL-96-01
5. Cool, A. M., Piotto, G., & King, I. R. 1996, ApJ, 468, 655
6. de Marchi, G., & Paresce, F. 1995, A&A, 304, 202
7. de Marchi, G., Paresce, F., Straniero, O., & Prada Moroni, P. G. 2004, A&A, 415, 971
8. Dolphin, A. E. 2000, PASP, 112, 1397
9. Elson, R. A. W., Gilmore, G. F., Santiago, B. X., & Casertano, S. 1995, AJ, 110, 682
10. Ferraro, F. R., Carretta, E., Bragaglia, A., Ortolani, S., & Renzini, A. 1997, MNRAS, 286, 1012
11. Finley, D. S., Koester, D., & Basri, G. 1997, ApJ, 488, 375
12. Fontaine, G., & Wesemael, F. 1997, A critical look at the question of thick vs. thin hydrogen and helium envelopes in white dwarfs, in White Dwarfs, Proc. of the 10th European Workshop on White Dwarfs, ed. J. Isern, M. Hernanz, & E. Gracia-Berro, Astrophysics and Space Science Library (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers), 214, 173
13. Gössl, C., & Riffeser, A. 2002, A&A, 381, 1095
14. Gratton, R. G., Fusi Pecci, F., Carretta, E., et al. 1997, ApJ, 491, 749
15. Gratton, R. G., Bragaglia, A., Carretta, E., et al. 2003, A&A, 408, 529
16. Hamuy, M., Walker, A. R., Suntzeff, N. B., et al. 1992, PASP, 104, 533
17. Hansen, B., Brewer, J., Fahlmann, G. G., et al. 2002, ApJ, 574, L155
18. Holtzman, J. A., Burrows, C. J., Casertano, S., et al. 1995, PASP, 107, 1065
19. Horne, K. 1986, PASP, 98, 609
20. King, I. R., Anderson, J., Cool, A. M., & Piotto, G. 1998, ApJ, 492, L37
21. Moehler, S., Heber, U., Napiwotzki, R., Koester, D., & Renzini, A. 2000, A&A, 354, L75
22. Moffat, A. F. J. 1969, A&A, 3, 455
23. Napiwotzki, R., Green, P. J., & Saffer, R. A. 1999, ApJ, 517, 399
24. Oke, J. B. 1990, AJ, 99, 1621
25. Paresce, F., de Marchi, G., & Romaniello, M. 1995a, ApJ, 440, 216
26. Paresce, F., de Marchi, G., & Jedrzejewski, R. 1995b, ApJ, 442, L57
27. Press, W. H., Teukolsky, S. A., Vetterling, W. T., & Flannery, B. P. 1992, Numerical Recipes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
28. Reid, I. N. 1998, AJ, 115, 204
29. Renzini, A., & Fusi Pecci, F. 1988, ARA&A, 26, 199
30. Renzini, A., Bragaglia, A., & Ferraro, F. R., et al. 1996, ApJ, 465, L23
31. Richer, H. B., Fahlmann, G. G., Ibata, R. A., et al. 1995, ApJ, 451, L17
32. Richer, H. B., Brewer, J., Fahlmann, G. G., et al. 2002, ApJ, 574, L151
33. Richer, H. B., Brewer, J., Fahlmann, G. G., et al. 2004, AJ, May issue [arXiv:astro-ph/0401446]
34. Salaris, M., Cassisi, S., García-Berro, E., Isern, J., & Torres, S. 2001, A&A, 371, 921
35. Tüg, H. 1977, ESOMe, 11, 7
36. Wood, M. A. 1995, Theoretical White Dwarf Luminosity Functions: DA Models, in White Dwarfs, ed. D. Koester, & K. Werner, Lecture Notes in Physics (Berlin Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag), 443, 41
37. Zoccali, M., Renzini, A., Ortolani, S., et al. 2001, ApJ, 553, 733
38. Zuckerman, B., Koester, D., Reid, I. N., & Hünsch, M. 2003, ApJ, 596, 477