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most citedDynamical age differences among coeval star clusters as revealed by blue stragglers

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astro-ph2006177 cited

Near-IR properties of 24 Globular Clusters in the Galactic Bulge

E. Valenti, F. R. Ferraro, L. Origlia

We present near-IR Color-Magnitude Diagrams and physical parameters for a sample of 24 Galactic Globular Clusters toward the Bulge direction. In this paper we discuss the propertie…

astro-ph200686 cited

High-resolution spectroscopy of RGB stars in the Sagittarius Streams. I. Radial velocities and chemical abundances

L. Monaco, M. Bellazzini, P. Bonifacio +5

Context. The Sagittarius (Sgr) dwarf spheroidal galaxy is currently being disrupted under the strain of the Milky Way. A reliable reconstruction of Sgr star formation history can o…

astro-ph2006119 cited

The radial distribution of blue straggler stars and the nature of their progenitors

M. Mapelli, S. Sigurdsson, F. R. Ferraro +3

The origin of blue straggler stars (BSS) in globular clusters (GCs) is still not fully understood: they can form from stellar collisions, or through mass transfer in isolated, prim…

astro-ph200628 cited

A population of binaries in the Asymptotic Giant Branch of 47 Tucanae?

Giacomo Beccari, Francesco R. Ferraro, Barbara Lanzoni +1

We have used a set of archived Hubble Space Telescope/ACS images to probe the evolved populations of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae. We find an excess of Asymptotic Giant Branch (…

astro-ph2006117 cited

Deep FORS1 observations of the double Main Sequence of omega Centauri

A. Sollima, F. R. Ferraro, M. Bellazzini +3

We present the results of a deep photometric survey performed with FORS1@VLT aimed at investigating the complex Main Sequence structure of the stellar system omega Centauri. We con…

astro-ph200666 cited

Detection of a population gradient in the Sagittarius Stream

M. Bellazzini, H. J. Newberg, M. Correnti +2

We present a quantitative comparison between the Horizontal Branch morphology in the core of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy (Sgr) and in a wide field sampling a portion of…