Bibcode
Bedin, L. R.; Anderson, J.; Heggie, D. C.; Piotto, G.; Milone, A. P.; Giersz, M.; Nascimbeni, V.; Bellini, A.; Rich, R. M.; van den Berg, M.; Pooley, D.; Brogaard, K.; Ortolani, S.; Malavolta, L.; Ubeda, L.; Marino, A. F.
Referencia bibliográfica
Astronomische Nachrichten, Vol.334, Issue 10, p.1062
Fecha de publicación:
12
2013
Número de citas
14
Número de citas referidas
14
Descripción
We present an overview of the ongoing Hubble Space Telescope large
program GO-12911. The program is focused on the core of M 4, the nearest
Galactic globular cluster, and the observations are designed to
constrain the number of binaries with massive companions (black holes,
neutron stars, or white dwarfs) by measuring the ``wobble'' of the
luminous (main-sequence) companion around the center of mass of the
pair, with an astrometric precision of ˜ 50 μas. The high
spatial resolution and stable medium-band PSFs of WFC3/UVIS will make
these measurements possible. In this work we describe (i) the
motivation behind this study, (ii) our observing strategy, (iii) the
many other investigations enabled by this unique data set, and which of
those our team is conducting, and (iv) a preliminary reduction of the
first-epoch dataset collected on 2012 October 10.
Based on observations collected with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space
Telescope, obtained at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is
operated by AURA, Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5-26555, under large
program GO-12911.