Browsing by Author "Smith, Horace"

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    Looking for the Building Blocks of the Galactic Halo: Variable stars in the Fornax, Bootes I, Canes Venatici II Dwarfs and in NGC2419
    (2009) Greco, Claudia; Clementini, Gisella; Held, Enrico E.; Poretti, Ennio; Catelan, Márcio; Federici, Luciana; Gullieuszik, Marco; Maio, Marcella; Ripepi, Vincenzo; Dall'Ora, Massimo; di Fabrizio, Luca; Kinemuchi, Karen; di Criscienzo, Marcella; Marconi, Marcella; Musella, Ilaria; Rest, Armin; de Lee, Nathan; Pritzl, Barton J.; Smith, Horace
    Looking for the building blocks of the Galactic Halo we have investigated and compared the properties of the RR Lyrae stars in a number of different stellar systems inside and outside the Milky Way.
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    NGC 6304: a metal rich cluster with RR Lyrae?
    (2006) De Lee, Nathan; Catelan, Márcio; Layden, Andy; Pritzl, Barton; Smith, Horace; Sweigart, Allen; Welch, D. L.
    We have carried out a new search for variable stars in the metal-rich bulge globular cluster NGC 6304 ([Fe/H] = -0.59) using CCD observations obtained at CTIO. We used two data sets: one was taken on the 0.9m in May and June of 1996, and the second was taken on the 1m Yalo telescope in February and March of 2002. We have identified and obtained BVI light curves for 11 RR Lyrae stars, including 6 RRab and 5 RRc stars within the tidal radius of the cluster, and partial light curves for several long-period variables. Most of the RR Lyrae stars had been previously discovered, although not always recognized to be RR Lyrae type variables. We are able to exclude several RR Lyrae stars as probable field stars. In light of the large number of long-period RRab stars recently discovered within the metal-rich globular clusters NGC 6388 and NGC 6441, it is noteworthy that two of the possible RRab have periods greater than 0.8 days. The nature of these long-period RR Lyrae and the question of their membership will be discussed....
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    Relative ratios and radial distributions of the multiple populations in the Galactic globular clusters
    (2015) Alonso-Garcia, Javier; Catelan, Marcio; Amigo, Pía; Contreras Ramos, Rodrigo; Cortés, Cristián; Kuehn, Charles; Grundahl, Frank; López, Graciela; Salinas, Ricardo; Smith, Horace; Stetson, Peter; Sweigart, Allen; Valcarce, Aldo A. R.; Zoccali, Manuela
    Recently, the long-standing paradigm that globular clusters are close approximations to simple stellar populations, with all stars formed at precisely the same time from populations having precisely the same chemical composition, has been shattered by a series of photometric and spectroscopic observations that reveal that these objects are more complex than we once thought . In this poster, we present the first results of a survey we are conducting among the Galactic globular clusters using the Strömgren photometric system. We show that the bluest Strömgren filters reveal broadenings or splits in the stellar sequences in the color-magnitude diagrams of the sampled clusters. These features allow us to disentangle successfully the different stellar populations in a given globular cluster, which let us measure their relative ratios, and explore their radial trends and gradients from the cluster center out to its tidal radius....