Bibcode
Milone, A. P.; Piotto, G.; Bedin, L. R.; Sarajedini, A.
Referencia bibliográfica
Memorie della Società Astronomica Italiana, v.79, p.623 (2008)
Fecha de publicación:
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2008
Número de citas
47
Número de citas referidas
42
Descripción
The HST/ACS Survey of Galactic globular clusters (GGCs) is a HST
Treasury project aimed at obtaining high precision photometry in a large
sample of globular clusters. The homogeneous photometric catalogs that
has been obtained from these data by Anderson et al. (2008) represents a
golden mine for a lot of astrophysical studies.
In this paper we used the catalog to analyze the properties of MS-MS
binary systems from a sample of fifty GGCs. We measured the fraction of
binaries (divided in different groups), studied their radial
distribution and constrained the mass ratio distribution. We
investigated possible relations between the fraction of binaries and the
main parameters of their host GGCs.
We found a significant anti-correlation between the binary fraction in a
cluster and its absolute luminosity (mass).