New Hubble Space Telescope WFC3/uvis observations augment the stellar-population complexity of ω Centauri

Bellini, A; Bedin, L R; Piotto, G; Milone, Antonino; Marino, Anna; Villanova, S

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New Hubble Space Telescope WFC3/uvis observations augment the stellar-population complexity of ω Centauri

Date

2010

Authors

Bellini, A

Bedin, L R

Piotto, G

Milone, Antonino

Marino, Anna

Villanova, S

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Abstract

We used archival multi-band Hubble Space Telescope observations obtained with the Wide Field Camera 3 in the UV-optical channel to present important new observational findings on the color-magnitude diagram (CMD) of the Galactic globular cluster ω Centau