Multi-wavelength Hubble Space Telescope photometry of stellar populations in NGC 288

Piotto, G; Milone, Antonino; Marino, Anna; Bedin, L R; Anderson, Jay; Jerjen, Helmut; Bellini, A; Cassisi, S

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Multi-wavelength Hubble Space Telescope photometry of stellar populations in NGC 288

Date

2013

Authors

Piotto, G

Milone, Antonino

Marino, Anna

Bedin, L R

Anderson, Jay

Jerjen, Helmut

Bellini, A

Cassisi, S

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Abstract

We present new UV observations for NGC 288, taken with the WFC3 detector on board the Hubble Space Telescope, and combine them with existing optical data from the archive to explore the multiple-population phenomenon in this globular cluster (GC). The WFC