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2023MNRAS.522..847K - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 522, 847-862 (2023/June-2)

Globular Cluster UVIT Legacy Survey (GlobULeS) - II. Evolutionary status of hot stars in M3 and M13.

KUMAR R., PRADHAN A.C., SAHU S., SUBRAMANIAM A., PIRIDI S., CASSISI S. and OJHA D.K.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present a far-ultraviolet (FUV) study of hot stellar populations in the second parameter pair globular clusters (GCs) M3 and M13, as a part of the GC UVIT Legacy Survey programme (GlobULeS). We use observations made with F148W and F169M filters of the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) onboard AstroSat along with ground-based data (UBVRI filters), Hubble Space Telescope(HST) GC catalogue, and Gaia EDR3 catalogue. Based on the FUV-optical colour-magnitude diagrams, we classify the sources into the horizontal branch (HB) stars, post-HB stars, and hot white dwarfs (WDs) in both the GCs. The comparison of synthetic and observed colours of the observed HB stars suggests that the mass-loss at the red giant branch and He spread in both clusters have a simultaneous effect on the different HB distributions detected in M3 and M13, such that HB stars of M13 require a larger spread in He (0.247-0.310) than those of M3 (Y = 0.252-0.266). The evolutionary status of HB stars, post-HB stars, and WDs are studied using SED fit parameters and theoretical evolutionary tracks on the H-R diagram. We found that the observed post-HB stars have evolved from zero-age HB (ZAHB) stars of the mass range of 0.48-0.55 M⊙ in M3 and M13. We detect 24 WD candidates in each cluster having ${\rm \log ({\it L}_{bol}/L_\odot)}$ in the range of -0.8 to +0.6 and ${\rm \log ({\it T}_{eff}/K)}$ in the range of 4.2-5.0. Placing the WDs on the H-R diagram and comparing them with models, it is found that M13 has a population of low-mass WDs, probably originating from binary evolution.

Abstract Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): Hertzsprung-Russell and colour-magnitude diagrams - stars: horizontal branch - white dwarfs - globular clusters: individual: NGC 5272 (M3) and NGC 6205 (M13) - ultraviolet: stars

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