Different Characteristics of the Bright Branches of the Globular Clusters M3 and M13

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dc.creatorCho, Dong-Hwan
dc.creatorLee, Sang-Gak
dc.creatorJeon, Young-Beom
dc.creatorSim, Kyung Jin
dc.date2005-02-17
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:29:34Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:29:34Z
dc.descriptionWe carried out wide-field BVI CCD photometric observations of the GCs M3 and M13 using the BOAO 1.8 m telescope equipped with a 2K CCD. We present CMDs of M3 and M13. We have found AGB bumps at V = 14.85 for M3 at V = 14.25 for M13. It is found that AGB stars in M3 are more concentrated near the bump, while those in M13 are scattered along the AGB sequence. We identified the RGB bump of M3 at V = 15.50 and that of M13 at V = 14.80. We have estimated the ratios R and R2 for M3 and M13 and found that of R for M3 is larger than that for M13 while R2's for M3 and M13 are similar when only normal HB stars are used in R and R2 for M13. However, we found that R's for M3 and M13 are similar while R2 for M3 is larger than that for M13 when all the HB stars are included in R and R2 for M13. We have compared the observed RGB LFs of M3 and M13 with the theoretical RGB LF of Bergbusch & VandenBerg at the same radial distances from the cluster centers as used in R and R2 for M3 and M13. We found "extra stars" belonging to M13 in the comparison of the observed RGB LF of M13 and the theoretical RGB LF of Bergbusch & VandenBerg. In the original definition of R of Buzzoni et al., N(HB) corresponds to the lifetime of HB stars in the RR Lyrae instability strip at log T_eff = 3.85. So, the smaller R value resulting for M13 compared with that for M3 in the case where only normal HB stars are included in R and R2 for M13 may be partially caused by "extra stars", and the similar R's for M3 and M13 in the case where the all HB stars are included in R and R2 for M13 may be caused by "extra stars" in the upper RGB of M13. If "extra stars" in the upper RGB of M13 are caused by an effective "deep mixing" these facts support the contention that an effective "deep mixing" could lead to different HB morphologies between M3 and M13 and subsequent sequences.
dc.description24 pages, 7 figures, to be published in the AJ
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0502340
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0502340
dc.identifierAstron.J.133:2163-2178,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1086/513315
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/196753
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleDifferent Characteristics of the Bright Branches of the Globular Clusters M3 and M13
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