[工程科技]Globular Cluster Photometry with the Hubble Space Telescope V WFPC2 Study of M15s Centra.pdfVIP

GLOBULAR CLUSTER PHOTOMETRY WITH 1 THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE . V. WFPC2 STUDY OF M15’S CENTRAL DENSITY CUSP Puragra Guhathakurta UCO/Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 Electronic mail: raja@lick.ucsc.edu 5 Brian Yanny 9 Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL 60510 9 1 Electronic mail: yanny@sdss.fnal.gov c e Donald P. Schneider D Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics 4 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 1 Electronic mail: dps@astro.psu.edu v 5 and 1 0 John N. Bahcall 2 1 Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ 08540 5 Electronic mail: jnb@sns.ias.edu 9 / h p - o r t s a : v i X r a 1 Based on observations with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope obtained at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS5-26555 1 ABSTRACT We describe images of the center of the dense globular cluster M15 (NGC 7078) obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2). Data taken in the F336W, F439W, and F555W filters (approximately U , B , and V ) are used