Comparing the white dwarf cooling sequences in 47 tuc and NGC 6397

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Richer, Harvey B
Goldsbury, Ryan
Heyl, Jeremy
Hurley, Jarrod
Dotter, Aaron
Kalirai, Jason S
Woodley, Kristin A
Fahlman, Gregory G
Rich, R M
Shara, Michael M

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IOP Publishing

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Using deep Hubble Space Telescope imaging, color-magnitude diagrams are constructed for the globular clusters 47 Tuc and NGC 6397. As expected, because of its lower metal abundance, the main sequence of NGC 6397 lies well to the blue of that of 47 Tuc. A

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Astrophysical Journal, The

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2037-12-31