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A candidate to the long sought optical counterpart to the Rapid Burster in the bulge fossil fragment Liller 1
Cristina Pallanca, Francesco R. Ferraro, Barbara Lanzoni +6
We report on the possible identification of the optical counterpart of the Rapid Burster MXB 1730-335 in the stellar system Liller 1. The identification was performed by taking adv…
A binary-related origin mediated by environmental conditions for blue straggler stars
Francesco R. Ferraro, Barbara Lanzoni, Enrico Vesperini +7
Blue stragglers are anomalously massive core hydrogen-burning stars that, according to the theory of single star evolution, should not exist. They are suspected to form in mass-enh…
Structural parameters, chronological age and dynamical age of the LMC globular cluster NGC 1754
Camilla Giusti, Mario Cadelano, Francesco R. Ferraro +4
In the context of a new systematic study of the properties of the most compact and massive star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), here we present the determination of t…
Searching for exotic object companions in the dense core of NGC 362: a multi-wavelength and multi-epoch photometric analysis
Greta Ettorre, Emanuele Dalessandro, Cristina Pallanca +8
The dense cores of globular clusters (GCs) are efficient environments for the production of exotic stellar populations, including millisecond pulsars (MSPs), low-mass X-ray binarie…
On the manifest link between Terzan 5 and the Galactic bulge
L. Origlia, F. R. Ferraro, C. Fanelli +4
We address the chemical link between Terzan 5 (hereafter Ter5) and the Bulge, as probed by the observed distributions of [/Fe] abundance ratios with varying [Fe/H] and by suitab…
The Bulge Cluster Origin (BulCO) survey at the ESO-VLT: probing the early history of the Milky Way assembling. Design and first results in Liller1
F. R. Ferraro, L. Chiappino, A. Bartolomei +14
We present the scientific goals and the very first results of the Bulge Cluster Origin (BulCO) survey. This survey has been specifically designed to perform an unprecedented chemic…
The bulge globular cluster Terzan 6 as seen from multi-conjugate adaptive optics and HST
Martina Loriga, Cristina Pallanca, Francesco R. Ferraro +7
This work consists of the first detailed photometric study of Terzan 6, one of the least known globular clusters in the Galactic bulge. Through the analysis of high angular resolut…
Thirty-five years of timing of M53A with Arecibo and FAST
Yujie Lian, P. C. C. Freire, Shuo Cao +6
PSR B1310+18A is a 33-ms binary pulsar in a 256-day, low eccentricity orbit with a low-mass companion located in NGC 5024 (M53). In this Letter, we present the first phase-coherent…