J/MNRAS/462/3401   Proper motions of blue stragglers in 38 GC (Simunovic+, 2016)

Blue straggler star populations in globular clusters. II. Proper-motion cleaned HST catalogues of BSSs in 38 Galactic GCs. Simunovic M., Puzia T.H. <Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 462, 3401-3418 (2016)> =2016MNRAS.462.3401S 2016MNRAS.462.3401S (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
ADC_Keywords: Clusters, globular ; Proper motions Keywords: proper motions - blue stragglers - globular clusters: general Abstract: We present new blue straggler star (BSS) catalogues in 38 Milky Way globular clusters (GCs) based on multipassband and multi-epoch treasury survey data from the Hubble Space Telescope. We measure precise astrometry and relative proper motions of stars in all target clusters and performed a subsequent cluster membership selection. We study the accuracy of our proper-motion measurements using estimates of central velocity dispersions and find very good agreement with previous studies in the literature. Finally, we present a homogeneous BSS selection method, that expands the classic BSS selection parameter space to more evolved BSS evolutionary stages. We apply this method to the proper-motion cleaned GC star catalogues in order to define proper-motion cleaned BSS catalogues in all 38 GCs, which we make publicly available to enable further study and follow-up observations. Description: We present a comprehensive proper-motion analysis based on HST observations of 38 Galactic GCs obtained by two public treasury surveys ('The ACS Globular Cluster Survey', GO-10775, see Sarajedini et al., 2007AJ....133.1658S 2007AJ....133.1658S, and 'The HST Legacy Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters: Shedding UV Light on Their Populations and Formation', GO-13297, see Piotto et al.. 2015AJ....149...91P 2015AJ....149...91P). File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file table1.dat 69 38 Properties of the target GC sample catalog.dat 66 1510 Proper-motion cleaned blue straggler star (BSS) catalogue -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: J/A+A/459/489 : Blue straggler stars in open clusters (De Marchi+, 2006) J/A+A/463/789 : Blue stragglers in open clusters (Ahumada+, 2007) J/A+A/483/183 : Catalogue of Blue Stragglers (Moretti+, 2008) J/A+AS/109/375 : Blue stragglers in open clusters (Ahumada+, 1995) J/MNRAS/264/273 : CCD photometry of NGC 1261 (Ferraro+ 1993) J/A+A/516/A23 : UBVI Photometry of NGC 1261 (Kravtsov+, 2010) http://www.astro.puc.cl/~msimunov/research.html : Catalogs Home Page Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 2 I2 --- NStars Number of BSS in the cluster 4- 11 A8 --- Cluster NGC cluster name (1) 13- 17 A5 --- Name Other name cluster (1) 19- 20 I2 h RAh Right ascension (J2000) (1) 22- 23 I2 min RAm Right ascension (J2000) (1) 25- 29 F5.2 s RAs Right ascension (J2000) (1) 31 A1 --- DE- Declination sign (J2000) (1) 32- 33 I2 deg DEd Declination (J2000) (1) 35- 36 I2 arcmin DEm Declination (J2000) (1) 38- 41 F4.1 arcsec DEs Declination (J2000) (1) 43- 47 F5.2 [-] [Fe/H] Metallicity (1) 49- 53 F5.2 mag VMAG Absolute V magnitude (1) 55- 58 F4.2 arcmin rh Half-light radius (1) 60- 64 F5.2 km/s sigma Calculated expected central velocity dispersion described in Section 4.2 66- 69 F4.2 km/s e_sigma rms uncertainty on sigma -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): taken from Harris (1996AJ....112.1487H 1996AJ....112.1487H, Cat. VII/195). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: catalog.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 8 A8 --- Cluster NGC cluster name 10- 15 I6 --- ID Star number within the cluster (1) 17- 27 F11.7 deg RAdeg Right ascension (J2000) (1) 29- 39 F11.7 deg DEdeg Declination (J2000) (1) 41- 46 F6.3 mag F606W F606W magnitude (1) 48- 52 F5.3 mag F606W-F814W F606W-F814W colour index (1) 54- 59 F6.3 mas/yr pmRA Proper motion along RA, pmRA*cosDE (2) 61- 66 F6.3 mas/yr pmDE Proper motion along DE (2) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): taken from the original ACS catalogues from Sarajedini et al. (2007AJ....133.1658S 2007AJ....133.1658S) Note (2): proper-motion values in sky coordinates, taking into account the cos(Dec) correction. They have been converted to mas/yr units, assuming a 7yr baseline and the ACS/WFC pixel size (0.05-arcsec/pix). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- History: From electronic version of the journal References: Simunovic & Puzia, Paper I 2014ApJ...782...49S 2014ApJ...782...49S
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