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Revista mexicana de astronomía y astrofísica
Print version ISSN 0185-1101
Abstract
RUELAS-MAYORGA, A.; SANCHEZ, L. J.; HERRERA, G. and NIGOCHE-NETRO, A.. CCD Photometry of M15. Rev. mex. astron. astrofis [online]. 2010, vol.46, n.1, pp.3-21. ISSN 0185-1101.
We present CCD observations of the galactic globular cluster M15, in the B and V filters. The cluster was reasonably covered, except in its northern region where our observations present a gap. We obtained a Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram for each region observed, and later we produced a combined HR diagram containing more than 3000 stars. We generate a clean Colour Magnitude Diagram (CMD) and a Super Fiducial Line (SFL). Application of several methods and isochrone fitting leads us to obtain values for the metallicity [Fe/H]M15~ -2.16 ± 0.10, the reddening E(B - V)M15~ 0.11 ± 0.03, and a distance modulus of [(m-M)0]M15 ~ 15.03.
Keywords : Galaxy: halo; globular clusters: general; globular clusters: individual (NGC 7078); techniques: photometric.