Differential reddening in the direction of 56 Galactic globular clusters

Abstract

The presence of differential reddening in the direction of Galactic globular clusters (GCs) has proven to be a serious limitation in the traditional colour-magnitude diagram (CMD) analysis. Here, we estimate local reddening variations in the direction of 56 Galactic GCs. To do that, we use the public catalogs derived as part of the Hubble Space Telescope UV Legacy Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters, which include photometry in the F275W, F336W, F438W, F606W, and F814W filters. We correct photometry for differential reddening finding that for 21 out of 56 GCs the adopted correction procedure significantly improves the CMDs. Moreover, we measure the reddening law in the direction of these clusters finding that $R_V$ exhibits a high level of variability within the Galaxy, ranging from $\sim 2.0$ to $\sim 4.0$. The updated values of $R_V$ have been used to improve the determination of local reddening variations and derive high-resolution reddening maps in the direction of the 21 highly-reddened targets within our sample. To compare the results of the different clusters, we compute the 68${}^{\mathrm{th}}$ percentile of the differential-reddening distribution, ${\sigma }_{\Delta A_{F814W}}$. This quantity ranges from 0.003 mag to 0.030 mag and exhibits a significant anti-correlation with the absolute module of the Galactic latitude and a strong correlation with the average reddening in the direction of each cluster. Therefore, highly-reddened GCs located in the proximity of the Galactic plane typically show higher differential-reddening variations across their field of view.

14 pages, 14 figures, accepted for pubblication in MNRAS. The photometric catalogs corrected for differential reddening are publicly available at this website: http://progetti.dfa.unipd.it/GALFOR/

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