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most citedChromosome maps of Globular Clusters from wide-field ground-based photometry

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astro-ph.GA2026

Tracing M22's origins: Spatial and chemical constraints on its formation history

Emanuele Dondoglio, Antonino P. Milone, Randa Asa'd +9

Globular clusters (GCs) are well known to host stellar populations characterized by light-element variations. A subset of Galactic GCs, beyond such 'canonical' populations, contain…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Large Magellanic Cloud through the lens of the James Webb Space Telescope: Binaries and the mass function in the galaxy's outskirts

M. V. Legnardi, F. Muratore, A. P. Milone +16

Nearby galaxies such as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) offer an ideal laboratory to test the initial mass function under different physical conditions, but previous works have be…

astro-ph.GA2026

Multiple populations along the asymptotic giant branch: a Gaia+APOGEE study of 22 Galactic globular clusters

Emanuele Dondoglio, A. P. Milone, A. F. Marino +9

We present an investigation of multiple stellar populations along the asymptotic giant branch (AGB) in 22 globular clusters (GCs), exploiting APOGEE spectroscopy combined with AGB…

astro-ph.GA2026

Hubble Space Telescope survey of Magellanic Cloud star clusters. Binaries, mass functions, blue stragglers, and structural parameters

F. Muratore, M. V. Legnardi, A. P. Milone +7

Binary stars are key tracers of the dynamical evolution of star clusters and provide important constraints on stellar populations and mass functions. The Magellanic Clouds host clu…

astro-ph.GA2026

Globular Clusters in the Time of the JWST. I. Survey Design and First Results on Multiple Populations and Beyond

A. P. Milone, A. F. Marino, G. Cordoni +25

Globular clusters (GCs) host multiple stellar populations with distinct chemical compositions, but their properties among very low-mass stars remain poorly constrained. The James W…

astro-ph.SR2026★ 3 cited

A deep HST view of the open cluster NGC2158: binaries, mass functions, and M-dwarf discontinuity

A. V. Marchuk, F. Muratore, A. P. Milone +13

A significant fraction of stars in both the Galactic field and stellar clusters are members of binary systems. Understanding their properties is therefore essential for a comprehen…

astro-ph.GA2026

Exploring the dynamical evolution of binary stars in multiple-population globular clusters

J. Bruce, E. Vesperini, A. Askar +5

The presence of multiple stellar populations in globular clusters leads to a complex dynamical environment that significantly influences the evolution of binary stars, which in tur…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

Exploring the ultra-faint dwarf Bootes I using JWST and HST: Metallicity distribution and binaries

F. Muratore, M. V. Legnardi, A. P. Milone +8

Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (UFDs) are among the oldest and most metal-poor stellar systems in the Universe. Their metallicity distribution encodes the fossil record of the earliest…

astro-ph.GA2025

Tracing ωCentauri's origins: Spatial and chemical signatures of its formation history

E. Dondoglio, A. P. Milone, A. F. Marino +8

ω}Centauri (ωCen) is the most enigmatic Galactic globular cluster (GC), with unmatched chemical complexity. We combine photometric and spectroscopic catalogs to identify its distin…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

The Small Magellanic Cloud through the lens of the James Webb Space Telescope : binaries and mass function within the galaxy outskirts

M. V. Legnardi, F. Muratore, A. P. Milone +8

The stellar initial mass function (IMF) and the fraction of binary systems are fundamental ingredients that govern the formation and evolution of galaxies. Whether the IMF is unive…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

A joint JWST and HST view of Omega Centauri: Multiple stellar populations and their kinematics

T. Ziliotto, A. P. Milone, G. Cordoni +5

We combine F115W and F277W images collected with the Near Infrared Camera of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) with multi-band, multi-epoch Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observa…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 7 cited

A JWST project on 47 Tucanae. Binaries among multiple populations

A. P. Milone, A. F. Marino, M. Bernizzoni +25

Almost all globular clusters (GCs) contain multiple populations consisting of stars with varying helium and light-element abundances. These populations include first-population sta…

astro-ph.GA2025

Linking Photometry and spectroscopy: profiling multiple populations in globular clusters

E. Dondoglio, A. F. Marino, A. P. Milone +14

Our understanding of multiple populations in globular clusters (GCs) largely comes from photometry and spectroscopy: appropriate photometric diagrams can disentangle first and seco…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 9 cited

Exploring the formation environment of multiple stellar populations in Globular Clusters through binary systems

E. Bortolan, J. Bruce, A. P. Milone +9

Globular Clusters (GCs) are known to host distinct stellar populations, characterized by different chemical compositions. Despite extensive research, the origin of these population…

astro-ph.SR2025

Mass loss along the red giant branch of the intermediate stellar populations in NGC6752 and NGC2808

M. Tailo, A. P. Milone, A. F. Marino +15

The morphology of the Horizontal Branch (HB) in Globular Clusters (GC) is among the early evidences that they contain multiple populations of stars. Indeed, the location of each st…

astro-ph.GA2025

New perspective on the multiple population phenomenon in Galactic globular clusters from a wide-field photometric survey

S. Jang, A. P. Milone, A. F. Marino +10

Wide-field photometry of Galactic globular clusters (GCs) has been investigated to overcome limitations from the small field of view of the Hubble Space Telescope in the study of m…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 5 cited

A JWST project on 47 Tucanae: kinematics, energy equipartition and anisotropy of multiple populations

T. Ziliotto, A. P. Milone, G. Cordoni +17

Recent work with JWST has demonstrated its capability to identify and chemically characterize multiple populations in globular clusters down to the H-burning limit. In this study,…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

Exploring Multiple Stellar Populations in Globular Clusters with Euclid: A Theoretical Overview and Insights from NGC 6397

A. P. Milone, G. Cordoni, A. F. Marino +8

We investigate the behavior of multiple stellar populations in globular clusters (GCs) using photometric diagrams constructed with Euclid photometry. By employing synthetic spectra…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 9 cited

Hubble Space Telescope survey of Magellanic Cloud star clusters. Binaries among the split main sequences of NGC 1818, NGC 1850, and NGC 2164

F. Muratore, A. P. Milone, F. D'Antona +15

Nearly all star clusters younger than ~600 Myr exhibit extended main sequence turn offs and split main sequences (MSs) in their color-magnitude diagrams. Works based on both photom…

astro-ph.SR2024

A JWST project on 47 Tucanae. NIRSpec spectroscopy of multiple populations among M dwarfs

A. F. Marino, A. P. Milone, A. Renzini +12

We present the first spectroscopic estimates of the chemical abundance of M dwarf stars in a globular cluster (GC), namely 47 Tucanae. By exploiting NIRSpec on board the James Webb…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

Exploring Simple-Population and Multiple-Population Globular Clusters in the Outer Galactic Halo using the Hubble Space Telescope

E. P. Lagioia, A. P. Milone, M. V. Legnardi +13

The pseudo two-color diagram, known as chromosome map (ChM), is a valuable tool for identifying globular clusters (GCs) that consist of single or multiple stellar populations (MPs)…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 2 cited

Spectro-Photometry and Radial Distribution of Multiple Stellar Populations in Globular Clusters from Gaia XP Spectra

V. J. Mehta, A. P. Milone, L. Casagrande +14

Understanding the formation of multiple populations in globular clusters (GCs) represents a challenge for stellar population studies. Nevertheless, the outermost cluster regions, l…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 6 cited

On the original composition of the gas forming first-generation stars in clusters: insights from HST and JWST

M. V. Legnardi, A. P. Milone, G. Cordoni +8

Globular cluster (GC) stars composed of pristine material (first-generation, 1G, stars) are not chemically homogeneous, as they exhibit extended sequences in the "Chromosome Map" (…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 1 cited

A JWST project on 47 Tucanae. Overview, photometry and early spectroscopic results of M dwarfs, and observation of brown dwarfs

A. F. Marino, A. P. Milone, M. V. Legnardi +14

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations have been demonstrated to be efficient in detecting globular clusters' (GCs) multiple stellar populations in the low mass regime…