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most citedBlue Straggler Stars: a direct comparison of Star counts and population ratios in six Galactic Globular Clusters

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astro-ph2003★ 134 cited

Blue Straggler Stars: a direct comparison of Star counts and population ratios in six Galactic Globular Clusters

Francesco R. Ferraro, Alison Sills, Robert T. Rood +2

The central regions of six Galactic Globular Clusters (GGCs) (M3, M80, M10, M13, M92 and NGC 288) have been imaged using HST-WFPC2 and the ultraviolet (UV) filters (F255W, F336W).…

astro-ph2001★ 98 cited

Blue Stragglers, Young White Dwarfs and UV-excess stars in the core of 47 Tuc

Francesco R. Ferraro, Nichi D'Amico, Andrea Possenti +2

We used a set of archived HST/WFPC2 images to probe the stellar population in the core of the nearby Galactic Globular Cluster (GGC) 47 Tuc. From the ultraviolet (UV) Color Magnitu…

astro-ph2001★ 31 cited

VLT Observations of the Peculiar Globular Cluster NGC6712, III: The Evolved Stellar Population

Barbara Paltrinieri, Francesco R. Ferraro, Francesco Paresce +1

We present extensive UBVR photometry of the Galactic globular cluster (GGC) NGC6712 obtained with the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) which reach down to two magnitudes below the ma…

astro-ph2000★ 10 cited

Very Large Telescope Observations of the peculiar globular cluster NGC6712. Discovery of a UV, H-alpha excess star in the core

Francesco R. Ferraro, Barbara Paltrinieri, Francesco Paresce +1

We present results from multi-band observations in the central region of the cluster NGC6712 with the ESO-Very Large Telescope. Using high resolution images we have identified thre…

astro-ph2000★ 10 cited

Another Faint UV Object Associated with a Globular Cluster X-Ray Source: The Case of M92

Francesco R. Ferraro, Barbara Paltrinieri, Robert T. Rood +2

The core of the metal poor Galactic Globular Cluster M92 (NGC 6341) has been observed with WFPC2 on the Hubble Space Telescope through visual, blue and mid-UV filters in a program…

astro-ph1999★ 47 cited

The Luminosity Function of M3

R. T. Rood, E. Carretta, B. Paltrinieri +6

We present a high precision, large sample luminosity function (LF) for the Galactic globular cluster M3. With a combination of ground based and Hubble Space Telescope data we cover…