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| Paper: |
The Bulge Globular Cluster NGC 6553: Observations with HST's WFPC2, STIS and NICMOS |
| Volume: |
211, Massive Stellar Clusters |
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128 |
| Authors: |
Beaulieu, S. F.; Gilmore, G. F.; Johnson, R. A.; Smartt, S. J.; Tanvir, N.; Santiago, B. |
| Abstract: |
As part of a large HST project to study the formation and evolution of rich star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud, we present results for the Galactic bulge metal-rich globular cluster NGC 6553. HST observations using WFPC2, NICMOS and STIS were obtained for this cluster. The primary reason for studying NGC 6553 is to transform our NICMOS and STIS magnitudes directly into absolute magnitudes. This is particularly important for determining the low mass end of the IMF. NGC 6553 was chosen because its metallicity, [Fe/H] ~ -0.2, is representative of the metallicities of the young and intermediate age LMC clusters. |
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