TY - JOUR
T1 - The absolute age of the globular cluster m15 using near-infrared adaptive optics images from pisces/LBT
AU - Monelli, M.
AU - Testa, V.
AU - Bono, G.
AU - Ferraro, I.
AU - Iannicola, G.
AU - Fiorentino, G.
AU - Arcidiacono, C.
AU - Massari, D.
AU - Boutsia, K.
AU - Briguglio, R.
AU - Busoni, L.
AU - Carini, R.
AU - Close, L.
AU - Cresci, G.
AU - Esposito, S.
AU - Fini, L.
AU - Fumana, M.
AU - Guerra, J. C.
AU - Hill, J.
AU - Kulesa, C.
AU - Mannucci, F.
AU - McCarthy, D.
AU - Pinna, E.
AU - Puglisi, A.
AU - Quiros-Pacheco, F.
AU - Ragazzoni, R.
AU - Riccardi, A.
AU - Skemer, A.
AU - Xompero, M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2015/10/10
Y1 - 2015/10/10
N2 - We present deep near-infrared J, photometry of the old, metal-poor Galactic globular cluster M15 obtained with images collected with the LUCI1 and PISCES cameras available at the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT). We show how the use of First Light Adaptive Optics (FLAO) system coupled with the PISCES camera allows us to improve the limiting magnitude by ∼2 mag in . By analyzing archival Hubble Space Telescope data, we demonstrate that the quality of the LBT/PISCES color-magnitude diagram is fully comparable with analogous space-based data. The smaller field of view is balanced by the shorter exposure time required to reach a similar photometric limit. We investigated the absolute age of M15 by means of two methods: (i) by determining the age from the position of the main-sequence turnoff (MSTO), and (ii) by the magnitude difference between the MSTO and the well-defined knee detected along the faint portion of the MS. We derive consistent values of the absolute age of M15, that is, 12.9 ± 2.6 Gyr and 13.3 ± 1.1 Gyr, respectively.
AB - We present deep near-infrared J, photometry of the old, metal-poor Galactic globular cluster M15 obtained with images collected with the LUCI1 and PISCES cameras available at the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT). We show how the use of First Light Adaptive Optics (FLAO) system coupled with the PISCES camera allows us to improve the limiting magnitude by ∼2 mag in . By analyzing archival Hubble Space Telescope data, we demonstrate that the quality of the LBT/PISCES color-magnitude diagram is fully comparable with analogous space-based data. The smaller field of view is balanced by the shorter exposure time required to reach a similar photometric limit. We investigated the absolute age of M15 by means of two methods: (i) by determining the age from the position of the main-sequence turnoff (MSTO), and (ii) by the magnitude difference between the MSTO and the well-defined knee detected along the faint portion of the MS. We derive consistent values of the absolute age of M15, that is, 12.9 ± 2.6 Gyr and 13.3 ± 1.1 Gyr, respectively.
KW - globular clusters: general
KW - globular clusters: individual (M15)
KW - techniques: photometric
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U2 - 10.1088/0004-637X/812/1/25
DO - 10.1088/0004-637X/812/1/25
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84946088455
SN - 0004-637X
VL - 812
JO - Astrophysical Journal
JF - Astrophysical Journal
IS - 1
M1 - 25
ER -