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Galactic Globular and Open Cluster Fiducial Sequences in the Pan-STARRS1 Photometric System

Authors :
Bernard, Edouard J.
Ferguson, Annette M. N.
Schlafly, Edward F.
Platais, Imants
Bell, Eric F.
Martin, Nicolas F.
Rix, Hans-Walter
Slater, Colin T.
Burgett, William S.
Chambers, Kenneth C.
Draper, Peter W.
Hodapp, Klaus W.
Kaiser, Nicholas
Kudritzki, Rolf-Peter
Magnier, Eugene A.
Metcalfe, Nigel
Tonry, John L.
Wainscoat, Richard J.
Waters, Christopher
Publication Year :
2014

Abstract

We present the fiducial sequences of a sample of Galactic star clusters in the five bands of the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) photometric system (g_P1, r_P1, i_P1, z_P1, y_P1). These empirical sequences -- which include the red giant and sub-giant branches, the main sequence, and the horizontal branch -- were defined from deep colour-magnitude diagrams reaching below the oldest main-sequence turn-offs of 13 globular and 3 old open clusters covering a wide range of metallicities (-2.4 < [Fe/H] < +0.4). We find excellent agreement for the nine clusters in common with previous studies in similar photometric systems when transformed to the PS1 system. Because the photometric and spectroscopic properties of these stellar populations are accurately known, the fiducials provide a solid basis for the interpretation of observations in the PS1 system, as well as valuable constraints to improve the empirical colour--$T_{eff}$ relations.<br />Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures (+15 figures in Appendix). Re-submitted to MNRAS after addressing the referee's comments. Some figures degraded due to size limitations

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1405.6644
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1081