Cultural advice

The Australian National University acknowledges, celebrates and pays our respects to the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people of the Canberra region and to all First Nations Australians on whose traditional lands we meet and work, and whose cultures are among the oldest continuing cultures in human history.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are advised that ANU Library collections may include images, names, voices, and other representations of deceased persons.

Material in the collection may contain terms, language or views that reflect the period in which the item was created and may be considered inappropriate today.

The spectral energy distributions of white dwarfs in 47 Tucanae: The distance to the cluster

Loading...
Thumbnail Image

Date

Authors

Woodley, Kristin A.
Goldsbury, Ryan
Kalirai, Jason S
Richer, Harvey B
Tremblay, P.-E.
Anderson, Jay
Bergeron, P
Esteves, L
Dotter, Aaron
Fahlman, Gregory G

Journal Title

Journal ISSN

Volume Title

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Abstract

We present a new distance determination to the Galactic globular cluster 47 Tucanae by fitting the spectral energy distributions of its white dwarfs (WDs) to pure hydrogen atmosphere WD models. Our photometric data set is obtained from a 121-orbit Hubble

Description

Keywords

Citation

Source

Astronomical Journal

Book Title

Entity type

Access Statement

License Rights

Restricted until

2037-12-31