The State-of-the-Art HST Astro-Photometric Analysis of the core of $\omega$ Centauri. I. The Catalog

Abstract

We have constructed the most-comprehensive catalog of photometry and proper motions ever assembled for a globular cluster (GC). The core of $\omega$Cen has been imaged over 650 times through WFC3's UVIS and IR channels for the purpose of detector calibration. There exist from 4 to over 60 exposures through each of 26 filters, stretching continuously from F225W in the UV to F160W in the infrared. Furthermore, the 11-year baseline between these data and a 2002 ACS survey has allowed us to more than double the proper-motion accuracy and triple the number of well-measured stars compared to our previous groundbreaking effort. This totally unprecedented complete spectral coverage for over 470,000 stars within the cluster's core, from the tip of the red-giant branch down to the white dwarfs, provides the best astro-photometric observational data base yet to understand the multiple-population phenomenon in any GC. In this first paper of the series we describe in detail the data-reduction processes and deliver the astro-photometric catalog to the astronomical community.

arXiv comment20 pages, 14 figures (9 in low res.), 11 tables. Fixed typo in the metadata. Accepted for publication in ApJ

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